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Peking Opera (Chinese: 京剧, Jīngjù; English: Peking Opera/Beijing Opera) is a traditional performing art that originated in China and is primarily performed in Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai. It integrates singing, spoken recitation, acting, dance and martial arts into a single dramatic structure. Its narrative is built upon vocal performance based on the xipi and erhuang musical systems, accompanied by an orchestra of bowed, wind and percussion instruments. It employs symbolic and coded body lang