Hongji Grand Stage
Hongji Grand Stage is the Beijing Opera house located in downtown Dalian, Liaoning, China.
History
During the occupation of Dalian by Japan, there was a teahouse Tenfu Cha-en at this location, now called 59 Minsheng Road, Zhongshan District, Dalian. In 1911, it changed its name to Hozen Cha-en and later changed to Eizen Cha-en. Among the plays that were played there mostly in Japanese, there was also a Beijing Opera "Renmian Taohua", played in Mandarin. A large-scale reconstruction begun in 1931 and was completed in 1933. In the following year, 1934, a grand opening of Kousai Daibutai was held. Among the various plays for the grand opening, there was also a Beijing Opera "Peng-gong-an".At the end of World War II, Hongji Grand Stage was confiscated by the City of Dalian, and, from 1949, was used as a club for the Dalian Police Department. In 1963, it became the Dalian Lu-Da Pingju Theater, and, in October 2010, returned to its former name of Hongji Grand Stage, which the Dalian Beijing Opera Company started to use as its main theater, after abandoning to use Qilin Grand Stage, the former Higashi Hongan-ji Dalian Buddhist Temple.
In Dalian, there are other important theaters, such as Dalian People's Culture Club, Working People's Theater-Doudou Grand Stage and Development Area Grand Theater.