Peking opera has entered Beijing since the Hui class, and a number of genres have been formed in the past two hundred years. Among them, especially in the Cheng Changgeng Sanqing class, there are three major schools of Wang Guifen, Tan Xinpei and Sun Juxian.
Gai Yixusheng theory, Cheng Changgeng can be described as the ancestor of the Northern Sect, Yu Sansheng is the ancestor of the Southern Sect, and Tan Xinpei belongs to the Southern Sect and is also the Northern Sect, so directly influenced by Tan are Yu Shuyan (Yu Pai, the disciple has Meng Xiaodong), Yan Jupeng (Yan Pai), and then pass on the disciples, that is, the so-called "Four Great Su Shengs" as Tan Fuying (Tan Pai), Ma Lianliang (Ma Pai), Yang Baosen (Yang Pai, also divided into Gao Qingkui's Gao Faction), Xi Xiaobo (Xi Pai), of which the Tan Sect is simple and crisp, the Ma Sect is dashing and gorgeous, the Yang School is sad and mellow, and the Xi School is rigorous and neat, Separately, they are better than the world. Zhou Xinfang (Qi Pai) is a collection of Wang Guifen and Sun Juxian's strengths, but also a private Shu Tan faction. Qipai belongs to the creation of innovation.
——Excerpt from Liao Dawei et al., "The Dawn of the New Century"
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