183 Beijing Operas - Bao Zhen - Number 129 Bao Zhen Beijing Opera - "The Ungrateful Husband"
Boa Zhen with the black full face, plays the leading character in "The
Ungrateful Husband," adapted from a folk tale "Drumbeat Song of Qin Xianglian."
A drumbeat song is a song to the accompaniment of a drum. It used to be a
popular form of entertainment in north China. The songs or stories were usually
about struggles between honest and dishonest officials or wars against
invasion. Although they concerned mainly the doings of emperors, kings,
ministers, and generals, they reflected to a greater or lesser degree the hopes
of the common people and what they loved or hated. Qin Xianglian had been
adopted into many kinds of operas.
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