183 Beijing Operas - Wu Tianqiu - Number 215

Wu Tianqiu

Beijing Opera - "Fierce Tiger Village"

Wu Tianqiu with a green broken-flower face is a bandit chief in the opera "Fierce Tiger Village." In order to avenge the deaths of some of his companions, he kidnaps Magistrate Shi Shilun when the latter is passing through the village on his way to a new post at Jiangdu. Law officer Huang Huang Tianba arrives, learns what has happened, and returns with soldiers who burn the bandit's stronghold and rescue the magistrate.