Chinese Peking Opera House

CHINA PEKING OPERA THEATRE

　　China Peking Theater is a national theater directly under the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China. Its earliest predecessor was Yanan Pingju Academy established in 1942 under the care of the Party Central Committee. Chairman Mao Zedong once wrote an inscription for the institute "innovating the old" and put forward historical guidelines for the cause of the opera. After several changes and reorganization of the hospital, it was first merged with the Pingxi Theater of the Sixth Column of the North China Military Region and the Democratic Theater of the Southern Hebei Military Region, and was renamed the North China Pingxi Academy; after the founding of the country, it was reorganized into the Beijing Opera Academy under the Drama Improvement Bureau of the Ministry of Culture and the Chinese Academy of Drama. The first, second, and third regiments of the Beijing Opera experiment; later, in 1953, the three regiments merged into the China Beijing Opera Troupe. On this basis, the Chinese Peking Opera House was established in January 1955. Mei Lanfang, the master of Peking Opera, served as the first dean. In June 2007, with the approval of relevant departments, the China Peking Opera House, established in January 1955, was renamed the National Peking Opera House (China National Peking Opera House).