Mei Lanfang Memorial Hall （South Gate）

This guide to the Mei Lanfang Memorial Hall in Beijing follows the Peking opera star as Japanese officers occupying the city order him to perform, and the doctor he asks to inject him with fever-inducing vaccines instead. You'll hear how he sold paintings and grew a moustache no dan actor could wear on stage, refusing to sing for eight years. It follows him into the courtyard house, once a Qing prince's stable block, where he spent his final decade. Look for the persimmon and crabapple trees he crossed each morning.