Peking opera's many admirable characteristics include the inextricable threefold relation-ship of singing, dance and music; its symbolic code of performance; and its stage, which "has nothing yet has everything" and can be altered to serve a vast array of functions.
「無聲不歌，無動不舞」，歌舞樂三者的密切結合；虛擬寫意的表演程式；以及「一無所有，無所不有」，流轉自如的舞台空間等等，都是京劇令人讚嘆的特質。