Kunqu Opera is one of the oldest There has been a revival of the art extant forms of Chinese opera. form since the 1980s. It evolved from the Kunshan melody Today, there are professional Kunqu and developed during the late Yuan Opera troupes in seven cities on the

pioneer was Gu Jian from Qiandeng and Nanjing in Jiangsu province, Chen town in Kunshan, Jiangsu province. zhou in Hunan province, and Yongjia Kunqu Opera dominated Chinese and Hangzhou in Zhejiang province.