<P> I listened to the operas when I ate, walked and slept . I grew up with the operas . they became my cells . I decorated the porch with posters of my favorite opera heroines . I sang the operas wherever I went . My mother heard me singing in my dreams; she said that I was preserved by the operas . It was true . I could not go on a day without listening to the operas . I pasted my ear close to the radio, figuring out the singer's breaths . I imitated her . The aria was called' I won't quit the battle until all the beasts are killed .' It was sung by Iron Plum a teenage character in an opera called The Red Lantern . I would not stop singing the aria until my vocal cords hurt . I went on pushing my voice to its highest pitch . I was able to recite all the librettos...</P> <P> The film Farewell My Concubine (1993), set in a Peking Opera company, shows the tension and debates within the group when the revolutionary opera replaced the old . </P> <P> Since the end of the Cultural Revolution, some of the eight model revolutionary operas have been sent on tours around the world without much of its original political content . </P> <P> According to Liu Kang from Duke University: </P>

What happened to the beijing opera during the cultural revolution