From its very birth, Peking opera has had a tradition of embracing other performance traditions. It has based its music around xipi and erhuang tunes, but it absorbed many local musical styles in building up the canon that we know today as traditional Peking opera.
京戲從誕生初始，就有廣採博納的傳統，它以西皮、二簧為主調，再吸收各地的雜腔小調，成為今天的局面。