Today, the four major shengqiang (四大声腔 pinyin: Sìdà Shēngqiāng) are Bangziqiang, Pihuangqiang, Kunqiang and Gaoqiang (i.e. Yiyangqiang). [1 ] Not all Chinese opera genres fall into one of these four shengqiang systems, and many genres…
Chengdu is the main home of Sichuan opera, while other influential locales include Chongqing, Guizhou, Yunnan, Hubei and Taiwan. [3 ] Sichuan opera was listed among the first batch of the Chinese Ministry of Culture's "Intangible Cultural…