183 Beijing Operas - Zhang Shun - Number 161

Zhang Shun

Beijing Opera - "The Fight at Jiangzhou"

Zhang Shun with a white flowered three-tile face is the leading character in the opera "The Fight at Jiangzhou." Song Jiang is banished to Jiangzhou for killing a man. One day when he and his friend Li Kui and Di Zong are drinking at a tavern, Li Kui goes to buy some fish and gets into a brawl with Zhang Shun the fishmonger. Song Jiang comes and stops the fight, but not until Li Kui has been thrown into a pond.