Wuju (), also known as Jinhua opera, is a form of Chinese opera from Jinhua, in the eastern province of

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, China. It is also performed in Lishui, Linhai,

Jiande is a county-level city of Zhejiang Province, East China, it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Hangzhou. History During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Jiande was the capital of Yanzhou Prefecture. On account of this, Jian ...

, Chun'an, Zhejiang, as well as in northeastern

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province, in cities such as Yushan, Shangrao,

Guixi Guixi () is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Yingtan, Jiangxi Province, China, bordering Fujian Province to the southeast. The city covers two-thirds of the land area in the municipal region. Like Yuehu Di ...

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, and

Jingdezhen Jingdezhen is a prefecture-level city, in northeastern Jiangxi province, with a total population of 1,669,057 (2018), bordering Anhui to the north. It is known as the " Porcelain Capital" because it has been producing Chinese ceramics for at le ...

. It is named for Wuzhou (), an ancient name for Jinhua. There are eleven ''Wuju'' troupes in eastern China.

References

External links

Introduction to ''Wuju'' opera
on Quzhou government web site Chinese opera Culture in Zhejiang Jinhua {{Chinese opera