Peking opera had separate female role types, among them qingyi, huadan and daomadan. Wang Yaoqing (1881 to 1954) combined the strengths of all three in a new role type, the huashan, which gives equal weight to singing, speech, acting and combat.
The critic Xu Lingxiao praised Wang’s creation as “neither qingyi nor huadan, a school of its own.” Yu Ji in Farewell My Concubine is a huashan role.