183 Beijing Operas - Wang Yanzhang - Number 50

Wang Yanzhang

Beijing Opera - "Fighting the Five Dragons"

Wang Yanzhang with a green broken-flower symbolic face stars in "Fighting the Five Dragons" adapted from a story in "Romance in the Late Tang and Five Dynasties." Wang Yanzhang, a greenwood hero, is attacked by five fierce Tang generals known as the Five Dragons. He fights well but in the end, exhausted and unable to extricate himself, commits suicide.