Pi Huang Opera borrowed from all varieties of opera with a liberality which allowed it to be enjoyed by sophisticates and commoners alike. In the two hundred years which have passed since those first imperial performances by the four companies from Anhui, it gradually replaced Kun Opera as the preeminent national form.
皮黃戲以無限朝氣吸收各種劇種之長，因為兼容並蓄，能夠雅俗共賞，逐漸取代崑曲登上中國劇壇寶座，從當年徽班進京一鳴驚人，至今已過兩百年。