Preface of Chinese Peking Opera Costume
Traditional Peking Opera costumes originated from the suitcase of Huizhou class in Qing Dynasty. In fact, it mainly inherits the broad foundation of Kunqu costumes, and its artistic accumulation is extremely rich. With the development of Beijing Opera, Beijing Opera costumes have experienced their own continuous innovation and creation, especially the most outstanding achievements of famous performing artists such as Mei Lanfang, Ma and Zhou, which make the artistic form of Beijing Opera costumes gradually complete and stable, and the artistic characteristics such as dance, decoration and stylization are typical and distinctive, which also has classic inheritance significance. At present, Peking Opera costumes and Kunqu costumes are recognized as the representatives and symbols of traditional costumes of China opera.