What is that guy on the left doing?
Get out!

Half of that stupid guy got again on
my picture. What is he trying to do?

Chinese opera is a world away from the Western variety. It is
a mixture of singing, speaking, mime, acrobatic and dancing that
can go on for five or six hours. Ours last about three hours,
and we enjoy every second. Spectacular!

The Beijing opera style, the one we see, is highly refined
with almost no scenery but a variety of traditional props. The
Cantonese style is more 'music hall', with a 'boy meets girl
theme', and often incorporates modern and foreign references.
The Chaozhou style is the most traditional one, but now seldom
performed. It is staged as it was in the Ming dynasty, with
stories from Chaozhou legends and folkore, and always contains a
moral.