Question: What other types of theater performance are seen in the city where the Yongle emperor greeted the person to whom the edict was addressed?

<P0-S0> a monument to the huge human cost of some of the gigantic construction projects of the early ming dynasty is the yangshan quarry (located some 15–20 km (9–12 mi) east of the walled city and ming xiaoling mausoleum), where a gigantic stele, cut on the orders of the yongle emperor, lies abandoned, just as it was left 600 years ago when it was understood it was impossible to move or complete it. <SEP> <P1-S0> During his travels beginning in 1403, Deshin Shekpa was induced by further exhortations by the Ming court to visit Nanjing by April 10, 1407. <P1-S1> Norbu writes that the Yongle Emperor, following the tradition of Mongol emperors and their reverence for the Sakya lamas, showed an enormous amount of deference towards Deshin Shekpa. <P1-S2> The Yongle Emperor came out of the palace in Nanjing to greet the Karmapa and did not require him to kowtow like a tributary vassal. <P1-S3> According to Karma Thinley, the emperor gave the Karmapa the place of honor at his left, and on a higher throne than his own. <P1-S4> Rossabi and others describe a similar arrangement made by Kublai Khan and the Sakya Phagpa lama, writing that Kublai would "sit on a lower platform than the Tibetan cleric" when receiving religious instructions from him. <SEP> <P2-S0> The Information Office of the State Council of the PRC preserves an edict of the Zhengtong Emperor (r. 1435–1449) addressed to the Karmapa in 1445, written after the latter's agent had brought holy relics to the Ming court. <P2-S1> Zhengtong had the following message delivered to the Great Treasure Prince of Dharma, the Karmapa: <SEP> <P3-S0> Jiangsu Province Kun Opera is one of the best theatres for Kunqu, China's oldest stage art. <P3-S1> It is considered a conservative and traditional troupe. <P3-S2> Nanjing also has professional opera troupes for the Yang, Yue (shaoxing), Xi and Jing (Chinese opera varieties) as well as Suzhou pingtan, spoken theatre and puppet theatre. <SEP> <P4-S0> after lying dormant and dilapidated for decades, the grand canal was restored under the yongle emperor's rule from 1411 -- 1415. the impetus for restoring the canal was to solve the perennial problem of shipping grain north to beijing. <P4-S1> shipping the annual 4,000,000 shi (one shi is equal to 107 liters) was made difficult with an inefficient system of shipping grain through the east china sea or by several different inland canals that necessitated the transferring of grain onto several different barge types in the process, including shallow and deep - water barges. <P4-S2> william atwell quotes ming dynasty sources that state the amount of collected tax grain was actually 30 million shi (93 million bushels), much larger than what brook notes. <P4-S3> the yongle emperor commissioned some 165,000 workers to dredge the canal bed in western shandong and built a series of fifteen canal locks. <P4-S4> the reopening of the grand canal had implications for nanjing as well, as it was surpassed by the well - positioned city of suzhou as the paramount commercial center of china. <P4-S5> despite greater efficiency, there were still factors which the government could not control that limited the transportation of taxed grain; for example, in 1420 a widespread crop failure and poor harvest dramatically reduced the tax grain delivered to the central government.