A performer looks at herself in a mirror as she applies makeup before a performance by the Beijing Opera during a media preview at the textile museum in Shanghai June 8, 2013. Chinese opera combines music, art, literature along with colorful costumes and make-up into one performance on the stage. Since the Yuan Dynasty (1271 - 1368), Chinese opera has been encouraged by court officials and emperors in China to become a traditional art form.[Photo/Agencies]
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