Chinese Kunqu Opera: Classic Show for Cultural EliteⅤ

Since then, Liang Chenyu basically fixed. And Liang Chenyu also wrote a classic story named Huan Sha Ji(浣纱记), the first opera masterpiece of Kunqu in history. The play of this legend extended the influence of Kunqu Opera, and more and more literators began to write things for it. And the Kunqu lovers increased dramatically, many of who were geishas, In history, Chen Yuanyuan, a famous geisha in Ming and Qing Dynasties, was an expert in singing Kunqu opera.

Peony Pavilion(Mu Dan Ting, 牡丹亭）is the most famous masterpiece representative of Kunqu opera, one of Four Kunqu Classics, also famous as Four Dreams of Yuming Hall(玉茗堂四梦), and the other three are Cichai Ji, Handan Ji and Nanke Ji. It is a most famous play created by Tang Xianzu of Ming Dynasty. It is also an outstanding romantic work in history of opera.