183 Beijing Operas, Han Chang - Number 115

Han Chang

Beijing Opera - "Yang Paifeng"

Han Chang with a red broken-flower face is a character of the opera "Yang Paifeng." Han Chang was a great general in the Liao Kingdom. Yang Paifeng is a servant girl tending fires in the Yang family mansion. In the opera Han Chang captures Yang Zongbao, a general of the Yang family, and Yang Paifeng offers to go and rescues him. Although only a servant girl, she has practiced the martial arts since childhood. She is laughed at for her foolhardy, but to the amazement of all she overpowers Han Chang after a fierce hand-to-hand fight and brings Yang Zongbao back.