183 Beijing Operas, Ba Ruoli - Number 125

Ba Ruoli

Beijing Opera - "The Scholar Matchmaker"

Ba Ruoli with a black broken-flower face in "The Scholar Matchmaker", a newly produced history play. Ba Ruoli, a Liao general, kidnaps Princess Chai of Song when she is hunting with the emperor along the country's border. Yang Yanzhao rescues her and later she marries him. Their matchmaker in a scholar called Lu Meng.