272 Beijing Opera Performers - Tu Xingsun - Number 193

Tu Xingsun

Beijing Opera - "Three-Mountain Pass"

Tu Xingsun, a dwarf with yellow symbolic face in "Three-Mountain Pass, "adapted from an episode in "Canonization of the Gods." This dwarf was a general who had the power of penetrating into the earth. He served under Deng Jiugong, a Shang general who guarded Three Mountain-Pass and fought against Liang Ziya. Deng Jiugong promised to marry his daughter Changyu to Tu Xingsun someday if he could defeat the Zhou. Later Tu Xingsun was captured by Jiang Ziya, who told him Deng Jiugong's marriage promise was only a trick. Jiang ordered Tu Xingsun to kidnap Changyu, forced her to marry thr dwarf, then sent her over to the Shang camp to persuade her father to surrender, which he did.