Taiwanese opera is a crystallization of Taiwan’s popular culture and the only extent of traditional Chinese opera, which originated in Taiwan. The documentary evidence, which shows that Taiwanese opera, was originally performed in the Lan Yanng plane about one hundredth years ago. At first it was a small-scale performance of singing and dancing. But with the latter addition of elaborate customs and different roles for actors it gradually evolved into a genuine dramatic art form. Because the mattes are all drawn from folk songs and ditties and the lyrics are in the vernacular Taiwanese dialect. Taiwanese is very easy for the average Taiwan person to understand. Thus in a very short period of time it spread all over the island and became the major form of drama for Taiwan. It became so popular that it even spread to the Chinese mainland and those parts of Southeast Asia that where there were constriction of immigrants of the Min-Lan region of the Chinese mainland the birthplace of the Taiwanese dialect and the ancestral home to many people on Taiwan.

Taiwanese’s opera is called Ge-Zai-Xi the she means dramatic performance and the Ge-Zai refers to folk songs or ditties. The name Ge-Zai-Xi means a for of song drama or opera simply put it is a form of opera performed a traditional customs which is built on a foundation of folk songs and ditties sung in Taiwanese. But which is absorbed the performance of traditional Chinese opera.