Not from a Peking Opera family, nor particularly gifted. If the bouquet at the curtain call is an affirmation for all the actors, Zhu has also received more romantic affirmations from young fans, which are normally naive questions such as: Can you teach me how to do the 72 transformations? (72 transformations is one of the Monkey King's magic powers.)
Zhu Lingyu, the actor who got to play this important and beloved role received numerous rounds of applause during his performance. It may be hard for the audiences to imagine that the actor who vividly interprets Monkey King's cunning, naughty, greed, bravery, fearlessness, and a bit of arrogance on the stage, is a quiet and somewhat shy post-90s born young man. Adapted from earlier episodes of the 16th-century Chinese novel "Journey to the West", the famous repertory in traditional Peking Opera shows the audience the story of Sun Wukong, known as the Monkey King, who rebels against the Jade Emperor of heaven. "Uproar in Heaven" is the opening performance of the National Peking Opera Company for the year of the Tiger.
As the sound of drums and gongs intensified, the protagonist of the drama, the Monkey King entered the stage surrounded by a group of little monkeys. The Mei Lanfang Theater was almost full during the Spring Festival holiday, the audience is staring at the stage rapt with attention.
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