Introduction to Niu Zihou and the Peking Opera Art Exhibition: Niu Zihou was a Jilin businessman who was powerful in the Northeast and extremely wealthy in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China. He funded the establishment of the Peking Opera Xi (Fu) Liancheng Class and cultivated the Peking Opera art with Mei Lanfang, A large number of art masters such as Zhou Xinfang, Ma Lianliang, Qiu Shengrong, etc. have made the art of Peking Opera formal, systematic and scientific.