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Cantonese Opera is popular in Guangdong, south of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Hong Kong and Macao. In some places in Southeast Asia and Australia and America where there are overseas Chinese from Guangdong, Cantonese Opera has also become a fixture.In Southeast Asia there are generations of artists, a fixed society, trade associations and traditional performance sites, such as "Qing Wei Xin" in Singapore, "Pu Chang Chun" in Kuala Lumpur, where many famous Cantonese Opera actors and actresses have been trained.Cantonese opera originated in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), beginning under the reign of the emperor Jiajing (1522-64) and developed through the centuries. Formerly, the music was almost identical to older and more established operatic types, but since the beginning of this century it has become a blend of conventional patterns and fragments from Cantonese folk melodies, popular songs, modern Cantonese instrumental compositions and even Western tunes.
