For Peking Opera stars to be invited to meet Zhou Enlai was commonplace, and it was no rare thing for the audience to stand up part way through a performance, indicating that Mao Zedong himself had come to watch.
京戲名角被周恩來召見是常有的事，要不就是戲唱到一半，觀眾起立，原來是毛澤東來看戲。