page_title: Henan opera
hierarchical_section_title: Henan opera
caption_attribution_description: English: yuju opera
context_page_description: Yu opera, or Yuju opera, sometimes known as Henan bangzi, is one of China's famous national opera forms, alongside Peking opera, Yue opera, Huangmei opera and Pingju. Henan province is the origin of Yu opera. Henan's one-character abbreviation is "豫", and thus the opera style was officially named "豫剧" after the founding of the People's Republic of China. The area where Yu opera is most commonly performed is in the region surrounding the Yellow River and Huai River. According to statistical figures, Yu opera was the leading opera genre in terms of the number of performers and troupes.
  Outside Henan, provinces such as Hubei, Anhui, Jiangsu, Shandong, Hebei, Beijing, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang, all have professional Yu opera troupes. There is also a troupe in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The history of Henan opera dated back to more than 200 years ago. The opera was widely spread in Henan province in the late Qing Dynasty and faced new development opportunities after the founding of PRC in 1949. The opera spread across China and was ahead of the other 300 local operas in China before the mid-1980s.
context_section_description: Yu opera (simplified Chinese: 豫剧; traditional Chinese: 豫劇; pinyin: Yùjù), or Yuju opera, sometimes known as Henan bangzi (Chinese: 河南梆子; pinyin: Hénán Bāngzi), is one of China's famous national opera forms, alongside Peking opera, Yue opera, Huangmei opera and Pingju. Henan province is the origin of Yu opera. Henan's one-character abbreviation is "豫" (yù), and thus the opera style was officially named "豫剧" (Yùjù) after the founding of the People's Republic of China. The area where Yu opera is most commonly performed is in the region surrounding the Yellow River and Huai River. According to statistical figures, Yu opera was the leading opera genre in terms of the number of performers and troupes.
  Outside Henan, provinces such as Hubei, Anhui, Jiangsu, Shandong, Hebei, Beijing, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang, all have professional Yu opera troupes. There is also a troupe in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The history of Henan opera dated back to more than 200 years ago. The opera was widely spread in Henan province in the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) and faced new development opportunities after the founding of PRC in 1949. The opera spread across China and was ahead of the other 300 local operas in China before the mid-1980s.
caption: Yu performers
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