Top Yue Opera performer, Zhao Zhigang, performs in Ningbo's Gulou Street on Jan 25, 2014, attracted crowds of local residents to watch. The Yue Opera is popular in the region south of the Yangtze River, and is especially popular in Zhejiang, Shanghai, and Jiangsu. It was named Yue Opera because it originated in part of the Yue State (Zhejiang) in the Spring and Autumn Period about 2,000 years ago.

On July 27, 2014, Sun Wei, an actress from a youth Yue Opera troupe, applies make-up.

Senior students from Ningbo University, stage a Yue Opera performance for the elderly in Ningbo’s Yifu Theatre on the afternoon of Oct 21, 2014.