Hu Family Village
When Song Jiang leads a force of men to attack Zhu Family Village, Hu Sanniang, the fiancée of Zhu Biao .one of the village head's sons, comes to aid from a neighboring vilage, fighting courageously with the men from Mount Liang. She captures Wang Ying and defeats several heads, but she is later defeated and captured by Lin Chong.

 

 

 

The Heavenly Maid Scatters Blossoms
This play is also known as Tian Nu San Hua 天女散花, translated as Sylph Scattering Flowers, or A Fairy Maiden Scatters Flowers. The story is about the heavenly maid obeys the Buddha ordering to scatter blossoms to test the learning progress of his disciples. The heavenly maid comes to earth and scatters the blossoms to Buddha’s disciples and delivers the Buddha’s words, and then she returns to the west . Being covered in petals means one's knowledge is shallow, so the disciple then works hard.

 

Farewell My Concubine
It is also sometimes seen with the title Ba Wang Bie Ji 霸王别姬, better translated as The Hegemon-King Bids his Concubine Farewell, or Farewell to Princess Yu.

Xiang Yu was claimed as the “Overlord of Western Chu”. He fought for the unification of China with Liu Bang, and Liu Bang later had and set up the Han Dynasty. Xiang Yu is surrounded by Liu Bang's forces and he is already defeated, and he then called for his favorite concubine, Consort Yu. Realizing the dire situation that she could not become a burden to Xiang Yu, Yu commits suicide with Xiang Yu's sword when he distracted.

 

 

 

 

Shanghai Jingju Theatre Company
Shanghai jingju Theatre Company is a national key theatre company assessed by the Ministry of Culture, and a national intangible cultural heritage protection unit. It is a famous performing arts group in China, founded in 1955, with its first director being the master of Peking Opera, ZHOU Xinfang.

 

The Company is steeped in the unique humanistic atmosphere of Shanghai, forming a special artistic style and cultural landscape. It has gathered a great variety of talents and repertoire. The main influential productions include SONG Shijie, The Alliance of Still Water, XU Ce Runs to the Imperial Palace, Black Whirlwind LI Kui, Taking the Bandits Stronghold, Harbour, Ode to the Dragon River, Pan Shi Bay, Adventures of Emperor Qianlong, CAO Cao and YANG Xiu, Pansi Cave, The Beaver Cat for the Prince, The Great Events of Zhenguan, Honorable Official YU Chenglong, Success and Failure on Account of XIAO He, and many other traditional classics.

 

The theatre has always adhered to the philosophy of “promoting the training of talents through the construction of repertoire and ensuring the construction of repertoire through the training of talents”. To this end, the theatre has created and rehearsed a large number of outstanding productions, and at the same time cultivated a creative and performing team with good artistic quality and broad vision. At present, the theatre has a number of outstanding Peking Opera performers including SHANG Changrong, LI Bingshu, CHEN Shaoyun, XIA Huihua, XI Zhonglu, TANG Yuancai, HE Shu and SHI Yihong, AN Ping, LI Jun, YAN Qinggu, HU Xuan, XU Jianzhong, WANG Xiaozhuan, XU Jingen, and WANG Peiyu, LI Guojing, XIONG Mingxia and FU Xiru.

 

The theatre has two performing troupes and the Shanghai Tian Chan Yi Fu Stage and the ZHOU Xinfang Theatre Space, which are mainly engaged in Peking Opera performances. With the deepening of the reform of the arts system, the theatre has formed a management system and operational mechanism that is more in line with the requirements of artistic production, and has a more complete team of creation, production, performance and management.

 

Shanghai jingju Theatre Company is not only well known in China, but has also performed in more than 20 countries in Europe, America and Asia, enjoying overseas fame.