Four colors

Peking Opera costumes from a private collection are on show in Beijing, Chen Nan reports.

An olive-green robe fashioned from handmade silk, with an embroidered image of a qilin, a mythical beast, caught antiques collector Chen Shen's attention when he first saw it.

A seller brought the long robe to Chen's home in Beijing in the late 1990s after learning that Chen was looking for old Peking Opera costumes.