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7 generations sustain opera master's dying wish

By He Na | 皇冠体育app Daily | Updated: 2009-06-09 08:08

Tanzuowan village, located in Jiangxia district, Wuhan, central 皇冠体育app's Hubei province, seems like just another of the country's numerous villages.

Except that, instead of getting together for poker or Mahjong during the slack season, the residents of Tanzuowan gather to sing the songs of Peking Opera.

While a century-old tradition, it was hardly known outside the village until the arrival last month of descendants of Peking Opera master Tan Xinpei (1847-1917).

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