However, many people were introduced to the opera through works created for a younger audience. The entire operatic performance can be a seventeen hour study of convoluted mythology. For example, Wagner’s “Der Ring des Nibelungen” seems intimidating to most people at first glance. Understanding opera is more a matter of getting the right cultural translation in place to better leverage older forms of art into a modern context.

The situations, stories and even colorful artistic flourishes of opera tend to have a universal appeal. Humanity really doesn’t change all that much over time or place of birth. However, opera stops being intimidating soon after people start to really delve into it. Chinese opera in particular is intimidating on any number of different levels. This is even more common with opera from regions with complex histories. The average person usually thinks that getting into opera is tantamount to taking up rocket science or surgery as a hobby. Saying that people perceive opera to be artistically intimidating would be an understatement. Operatic performances and their various accoutrements are usually positioned at the very top of artistic works. Not for children under 15 years old.Opera has a strange place in the modern world. Sun Wukong has been a staple character in many forms of media such as cartoons and comics, traditional Chinese opera, etc. He became the real hero of the fantasy tales that pass on from generation to generation in China and the East Asia. In this legend story, he represents kindness, justice and bravery, just like an ancient Chinese version 'Super Man'. Sun Wukong, known as the Monkey King in the West, is one of the key characters in the classical Chinese fantasy epic novel 'Journey to the West'. (Please be noticed that the figure is attached in the display box with screw, and the display box is sealed.) It stands about 5' tall, in a acrylic display case, with a red packing box. It playfully blends the comic cartoon face into traditional Chinese opera character, to present an interesting and unique toy figure collection. This action figure is produced by local artist in China, hand painted and crafted with so much fineness and details, as to the traditional costumes of Chinese Peking opera.

Chinese peking opera characters