1. Peking Opera was formed about 150 years ago.
2. In the fifty-fifth year of Qingganlong (1790), Sanqingban, a well-known Huizhou class in the south of the Yangtze River, went to Beijing to celebrate the 80th birthday of Qingganlong. Huizhou Opera Troupe refers to a troupe that performs Huizhou tunes or Huizhou operas, which was very popular in the south in the early Qing Dynasty.
3. Many Huizhou classes followed, the most famous of which are Sanqing, Sixi, Chuntai and Hechun, commonly known as "the four Huizhou classes". They have their own characteristics in performance, and Sanqing is good at performing the whole drama; Sixi is good at Kunqu opera; Children's spirits, mainly teenagers in Chuntai, are outstanding in Chunwu Opera.
The above is about when Peking Opera facial makeup was formed.