272 Beijing Opera Performers - Shan Xiongxin - Number 170

Shan Xiongxin

Beijing Opera - "Execution of Xiongxin"

Shan Xiongxin with a blue broken-flower face, was a powerful, loyal and just hero of Wagang Fortress in the latest years of the Sui Dynasty. He would rather die than surrender to the Tang Dynasty and eventually is killed by Li Shimin, the Emperor