Peking opera costumes do not strictly conform to period mainly because every aspect of the art form is symbolic or suggestive rather than realistic.
因此，服裝也依此原則，不分朝代、地域，也不分季節。「這和用馬鞭表示馬，以船槳代替船是同樣的道理，都是直指內心，表現一個『共相』。