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with some stature wears a cap with two long pheasant tail feathers attached and is known as the
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actor must be skilled at handling the feathers with their hands to express emotions.
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actors do not wear a beard. However, not all beardless roles are necessarily
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and chest voice and is therefore known as the "yin-yang voice" (
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and a belt which could only be worn by government officials.
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Beardless warriors who only "fight" on stage are considered
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Index

Xiaosheng, Guangdong

kunqu
Pan Bizheng
hand fan
Chinese
pinyin
Chinese opera
sheng
Confucian
laosheng
huanguan
chou
jing
imperial examination
rujin
hand fan
imperial examination
scholar-official
futou

Taiwanese opera
Xue Dingshan
Cantonese opera
Chinese
Jyutping
Hakka
Hakka opera
Jia Baoyu
Tang Sanzang

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