Tianjin is one of the birthplaces of cultural arts in northern China and enjoys the reputation of “cradle of opera” and “city of folk arts”. Many forms of opera and folk arts were born, cultivated and developed in Tianjin. Among them, Tianjin Shidiao (tune), Tianjin Kuaiban (clapper talk), Jingyun Dagu etc. were born and formed in Tianjin. Xiangsheng (cross talk), Peking Opera, Pingju, and Hebei clapper opera, etc., all have been cultivated and developed in Tianjin. Tianjin fostered hundreds of Xiangsheng artists represented by Ma Sanli, enabling it to become a universally-acknowledged cradle of Xiangsheng artists. So far, Xiangsheng, Pingju Opera, Hebei Bangzi, Tianjin Shidiao, and Meihua Dagu have all been listed as items of national intangible cultural heritages.