It took quite a long period for the ancient people to absorb different vocal cavities and at last developed and improved the art of Kunqu Opera. The Chinese government has already held the China Kunqu Opera Festival three times till now and there are also numerous non-governmental Kunqu Opera clubs all over China as well as in the whole world. And there is also the Yongjia Kunqu Opera Research Institute in Zhejiang Province. Nowadays there are in China six Kunqu Opera troupes and one Kunqu Research Institute, including the Sukun Opera Troupe of Jiangsu Province, the Jiangsu Provincial Kunqu Opera Troupe, the Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe, the Zhejiang Provincial Kunqu Opera Troupe in Hangzhou City, the North China Kunqu Opera Troupe in the city of Beijing, and the Hunan Provincial Kunqu Opera in the city of Chenzhou, Hunan Province, which are all professional organizations of Kunqu Opera.
In the year 2001, it was entitled the World No 1 Oral and Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO. Kunqu Opera is actually a kind of very comprehensive art combining literature, history, music, dancing, and esthetics. With a long history of over 600 years, Kunqu Opera originated in Qiandun Town, Kunshan County of Jiangsu Province at the end of the Yuan Dynasty(1271AD-1368AD), and it became quite popular in China in the Ming(1368AD-1644AD) and Qing(1644AD-1911AD) Dynasties.
Kunqu Opera, which is also named Kunshan Vocal Cavity or Kun Opera, is believed to be the origin of all the other Chinese operas and it has also been considered to be a kind of art that appeals to highbrows only.
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