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Chu Opera is one of the main local opera varieties in Hubei Province, has a history of more than 150 years. It was known as Huangxiao Flower-Drum Opera, before 1926 and then renamed Chu Opera. It is lively, popular, and to understand and also has a strong local flavor. It describes stories of legends（传说）and family life, and is often simple and humorous. Unlike Peking Opera, there are only three kinds of : sheng（male）, dan（female）and chou（clown）.
In order to preserve it, a special theater in 1998 and was given the name Wuhan Chu Opera Theater. Since its establishment, the theater has collected adapted more than one hundred large or small traditional operas. One of the most well-known traditional operas is Magic Lotus Lantern（Baoliandeng）. As the story , the Goddess of Mount Hua, who helps people her magic Lotus Lantern, falls in love with a mortal（凡人）, Liu Yanchang. They get married and have a son named Chen Xiang. But the goddess's brother cannot bear to see sister marry a mortal. He orders his heavenly dog away the Lotus Lantern and hide the goddess in Mount Hua. Later a god teaches Chen Xiang kung fu so he can split（劈开）Mount Hua open and save his mother.
