The following programs are the most famous ones in the Shufengyayun Teahouse.

Prolusion: Naotai
Naotai is a piece of gong and drums music. It contents the best of the operns of Sichuan Opera, and it is full of Sichuan folk charm and local feature.

Sichuan Opera
Sichuan Opera derived from the great culture of West Shu Country, which has a long history of over two thousand years. Sichuan Opera, as one of most characteristic Chinese local drama, has a history over three hundred years. Sichuan Opera is good at magnificent accomplishment, humorous actor’s lines, and excellent Gongfu performing.

Gaohu Solo: Liang Shanbo & Zhu Yingtai
Gaohu is a kind of violin (fiddle) with two strings which, together with Erhu, belongs to the "huqin" family.? Liang-Zhu is a classical Chinese composition adopted from a beautiful love story of the same name.

Stick-puppet show：The beauty of the World
Stick-puppet show is a tour de force, which has a long history over two thousands of years. The beauty of the World is adopted from an excerpt of Sichuan Opera.? The story is about a fairy, who descended on the world and was infatuated with the life of human and the beauty of the world.

Rhythm of Shu Yun
Rhythm of Shu Yun is a particular art form consisting of talking, singing, Sichuan folk instruments performing, and dancing.

Suona Solo, Kaxi
Suona is known as Chinese trumpet. Birds in the Woods is the most expressive Suona composition which describes merry birdcall of hundreds of birds in the woods.
Kaxi, Let’s Speak Intimate Words, humorously presents the dialogue between the relatives according to two persons’ performances.

Hand Shadow Show
Hand shadow show is an ancient folk art. It derived shadow show, puppet show, and even the hand performing of Chinese operas.

Changing Faces
Changing Faces and Spitting Fire are the magic unique skills of Sichuan Opera. They are derived from Old West Shu Country and well known all over the world. During the performance, the performers change their masks in a magic way to show the rapid diversification of the gut and the role’s innermost being. In Shufengyayun, the particular Sichuan Operatic masks and perfect performance of masters, who have been sent abroad to perform by government, shows the tiptop of the art of Changing Faces and Spitting Fire.? And only in Shufengyayun you can enjoy the unique skills so closely and truly. 

Facial Make-up
Facial make-up is a step of making-up of actors of traditional Chinese Opera. It 's painted in different design on the face with paint. Different people have specified types of facial make-up to express the different characters. For example: Red means loyalty, such as Guangong; Black means frankness, such as Zhangfei; White means duplicity, such as Caochao. Facial make-up is usually used as Jing (man with strong character).

Stick-puppet Show
Puppet show is rooted from the Han Dynasty(202BC-204DC). Stick-puppet show is a way of performing, which the puppet and performer are all on the stage. Wood-head Show in Sichuan Province and Pleading Puppet Show are most famous, and they were used as to fete the ancestors and jins at ancient times, when they had the style of sobriety and solemn. In the Song Dynasty (960—1279) they became to be puppet show, and spreaded in the folk to be a cheerful folk acrobatics.

Stick-puppet Show is specialized at both its exquisite model and difficult performing skills. Nowadays, there are few people who can perform the show. Therefore, you can watch the show performed by the famed artist in Shufengyayun.

The Beauty of the World
The Beauty of the World is adopted from an excerpt of Sichuan Opera with the same name. It includes many difficult skills of stick-puppet, such as picking flowers, changing flowers, rotating handkerchief, and so on.

Rolling Light
Rolling Light is a unique skill of Sichuan Opera, and it's also a classic clown play of Sichuan Opera. The actor's lines is humor and not stick to one pattern. This excerpt has been invited to show in many countries and been highly praised.

The famous artists who are the representative of Sichuan Light Opera in Shufengyayun perform it.  Pijin, a lazy intellectual liked gambling outside. To let him to realize his errors and mend his ways, his wife thought out a stratagem, which was rolling light. At last, Pijin was repentant of his errors.

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