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[quote=COOLSPRINGS,411575]from other internet source:

Shanghai Opera (Huju) originated at about the same time as Beijing Opera, around 200 years ago. However, the Shanghai version of opera is based on local folk-songs of the Huangpu River region, rather than deriving from Anhui and Shanxi.

Huju is performed in the Shanghainese dialect of Wu Chinese, which is not mutually intelligible with Mandarin. In other words, a person from Beijing would not understand the lyrics of a Huju piece.

Due to the relatively recent nature of the stories and songs that make up Huju, the costumes and makeup are comparatively simple and modern. Shanghai opera performers wear costumes that resemble the street clothing of ordinary people from the pre-communist era. Their makeup is not much more elaborate than that worn by western stage actors, in stark contrast to the heavy and significant grease-paint used in the other Chinese Opera forms

'Yan Yan, the red maid' (the red maid in Chinese means the matchmaker) by well know Hu opera star Mao, Shan Yu[/quote]

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