272 Beijing Opera Performers - Bai Sheng - Number 9

Bai Sheng

Beijing Opera - "The Birthday Gifts" also called "Yellow Mud Ridge"

Bai Sheng with a symbolic warrior-clown face plays a character in the list-opera "The Birthday Gifts" also called "Yellow Mud Ridge." An outlaw of Liangshan, he poses as a wine dealer at Yellow Mud Ridge. When Yang Zhi arrives with the birthday gifts, he offers him and the other escorts wine mixed with sleeping powder. They all drink it and fall asleep.