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Chinese opera is mainly composed of three different kinds of artistic form, including the folk songs and dances, the talking and singing, and the farce. Originated in the primitive song and dance, the Chinese opera is a time-honored comprehensive stage art style. Synthetically consisted of literature, music, painting, martial arts, acrobatics and performance art, the Chinese opera contains about more than 360 varieties. The feature of Chinese opera is combining numerous artistic forms based on the same standard and presenting character respectively within the common character. There are several famous opera types among the Chinese operas, like the Peking Opera, the Kunqu Opera, the Yue Opera(Shanghai), the Yu Opera, the Yue Opera(Guangdong), the Sichuan Opera, the Shanxi Opera, the Jin Opera, the Han Opera, the Hebei Bangzi, the Hunan Opera and the Huangmei Opera.