High Cliffs Stand Upright, All Rivers Run Into Sea

The Qiu school, which created by Peking opera giant Qiu Shengrong, integrates all visual and aural performance elements of Jing with multiple performance techniques, and has formed a complete art system. Such merit of Qiu school is fully illustrated and well developed in the Peking opera ‘Chained traps’. Contribute to constant polishing by predecessors and masters, ‘Chained traps’, a play has complicated plots, gorgeous form, numerous sections, and abundantscenes, has became a classic repertoire. Base on the inheriting the essence of the tradition, Master Qiu Shengrong pays close attention to the pulse of the periods, and tightly combines with his own condition, which results in a great progress on the creation of the role of Dou Erdun than that performed by Qiu’s predecessors, a new level of this play, and one of the most classic repertoires of Qiu school. In the Peking opera ‘Chained traps’, by shaping and creating of the disposition and character of the main role Dou Erdun, Qiu Shenrong’s performance has directly, completely,and roundly illustrated performance pattern and artistic style of Qiu school, which is a Peking opera school of Jing.