183 Beijing Operas - Jiao Zhenyuan - Number 213 Jiao Zhenyuan Beijing Opera - "Sword-Peak Mountain"
Jiao Zhenyuan with a blue pointed three-tile face is a bandit chief in the
opera "Sword-Peak Mountain," adapted from a story in a sequel to "Honorable
Peng's Casebook." Jiuhua Niang (literally "Mistress Nine Flowers) owner of a
wine and tea shop, is a seductive woman who has lured many men to their
destruction. When soldiers come to arrest her, she flees to Sword-Peak Mountain
where Jiao Zhenyuan has his stronghold, The soldiers give chase and meet a man
called Sheng Kui on the way. The man says he is an old friend of the bandit
chief, and volunteers to go and persuade him to give up the fugitive.
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