Traditional Romantic opera remained popular ; indeed, the dominant opera publisher in the early 20th century was Casa Ricordi, which focused almost exclusively on popular operas until the 1930s, when the company allowed more unusual composers with less mainstream appeal.

Traditional Peking opera stages were built above the line of sight of the viewers, but some modern stages have been constructed with higher audience seating.

Traditional Beijing opera mask for Xiang Yu

Traditional Chinese Huangmei opera, on the other hand, had peaked in the 1960s amongst the general Chinese population.

Traditional drama, often called " Chinese opera ," grew out of the zaju ( variety plays ) of the Yuan dynasty ( 1279 – 1368 ) and continues to exist in 368 different forms, the best known of which is Beijing Opera, which assumed its present form in the mid-nineteenth century and was extremely popular in the Qing dynasty ( 1644 – 1911 ) court.

Traditional ayahuasca brews are often made with Banisteriopsis caapi as an MAOI, although Dimethyltryptamine sources and other admixtures vary from region to region.

Traditional church buildings are often in the shape of a cross and frequently have a tower or dome.

Traditional pre-Christian elements are often adopted into modern Christian and secular wedding ceremonies in many parts of Europe ( syncretism ), and a handfasting-style ceremony is also practised outside of the Neopagan subculture.

Traditional wet curing requires immersing the ham in a brine for an extended period, often followed by light smoking.

Traditional free-weight training is often used by javelin throwers.

Traditional pocket knives and Swiss Army Knives commonly employ the nail nick, while modern folding knives more often use a stud, hole, disk, or flipper located on the blade, all which have the benefit of allowing the user to open the knife with one hand.

Traditional kayaks encompass three types: Baidarkas, from the Alaskan & Aleutian seas, the oldest design, whose rounded shape and numerous chines give them an almost Blimp-like appearance ; West Greenland kayaks, with fewer chines and a more angular shape, with gunwales rising to a point at the bow and stern ; and East Greenland kayaks that appear similar to the West Greenland style, but often fit more snugly to the paddler and possess a steeper angle between gunwale and stem, which lends maneuvrability.

Traditional oil painting techniques often begin with the artist sketching the subject onto the canvas with charcoal or thinned paint.

Traditional desserts are often unavoidable, especially those made only during Ramadan.

Traditional skinheads sometimes wear suits, often made out of two-tone tonic fabric ( shiny mohair-like material that changes colour in different light and angles ), or in a Prince of Wales or houndstooth check pattern.

Traditional construction uses animal glue, and internal joints are often reinforced with strips of either linen or vellum soaked in hot animal glue — a practice also employed in early plucked vihuela construction.

* Traditional Hepburn, as defined in various editions of Hepburn's dictionary, with the third edition ( 1886 ) often considered authoritative ( although changes in kana usage must be accounted for ).

Traditional bird names are often based on detailed knowledge of the behaviour, with many names being onomatopoeic, many still in use.

Traditional Japanese origami, which has been practiced since the Edo era ( 1603 – 1867 ), has often been less strict about these conventions, sometimes cutting the paper or using nonsquare shapes to start with.

Traditional square dance groups are less structured and often have no particular dress code.

Traditional Chinese medicine often incorporates ingredients from all parts of plants, the leaf, stem, flower, root, and also ingredients from animals and minerals.

Traditional music continues in many parts of the UK in the 21st century, often using English and Anglo-system concertinas.

The Wubizixing input method (), often abbreviated to simply Wubi or Wubi Xing, is a Chinese character input method primarily for inputting simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese text on a computer.

Traditional medallion designs, tessellated and geometric designs are most often used.

Traditional instruments were often played in nontraditional or highly modified ways.

Traditional Tuareg music has two major components: the monochord violin anzad played often during night parties and a small tambour covered with goatskin called tende, performed during camel and horse races, and other festivities.

Bandjin survivors of an often violent non-indigenous ' occupation ' of the region continue to value and consider Goold Island as part of their sea country and, in December 2005, they included Goold Island within Australia's and Queensland's first accredited ' Traditional Use of Marine Resource Agreement '

Traditional acrylic fiber is used more often as a synthetic replacement for wool.

Traditional systems ( often found as Legacy systems ) are ' passive ', in that they provide excellent functionality when specifically asked to do something-they will answer enquiries, process updates and produce reports.

Traditional Native Americans believe in a creator, variously referred to as Great Spirit, Great Creator or Great One, who is the originator of creation.

There are two main branches of Reiki, commonly referred to as Traditional Japanese Reiki and Western Reiki.

The concept of " Mentor-Disciple Bond " is referred to in Traditional Buddhism by the " Master-Disciple relationship ".

Traditional dances are normally referred to as bygdedans ( village or regional dance ).

Traditional Judaism sees the etrog referred to in the Bible as peri eitz hadar ( פ ְּ ר ִ י ע ֵ ץ ה ָ ד ָ ר ), literally " a fruit of the beautiful tree.

Traditional Chinese characters ( Standard characters ) are referred to by several different names within the Chinese-speaking world.

Traditional songs and hymns are referred to as imene metua ( lit.

Traditional business dress as an everyday style is generally limited to middle-and upper-level corporate management ( now sometimes collectively referred to as " suits "), and to the professions ( particularly law ).

Traditional historians characterized the relationship between Emperor Ai and Dong Xian as one between homosexual lovers and referred to their relationship as " the passion of the cut sleeve " ( 斷袖之癖 ) after a story that one afternoon after falling asleep for a nap on the same bed, Emperor Ai cut off his sleeve rather than disturb the sleeping Dong Xian when he had to get out of bed.

Traditional historians treat his emperor status ambiguously — and sometimes he would be referred to as an emperor ( with reference to his era name — thus, Emperor Gengshi ) and sometimes he would be referred to by his Eastern Han-granted title ( Prince of Huaiyang ) because Eastern Han was later viewed as the " legitimate " restoration of Han Dynasty, implying that he was only a pretender.

Folk medicine may also be referred to as Traditional medicine, Alternative medicine, Indigenous medicine, Complementary medicine, Natural medicine.

The term Beiyang (; pinyin: Běiyáng ; Wade-Giles: Peiyang ; meaning ' Northern Ocean ') originated toward the end of the Qing Dynasty, and it referred to the coastal areas of Zhili ( Traditional Chinese: 直隸, Simplified Chinese: 直隶, pinyin: Zhílì ) ( today's Hebei ), Liaoning, and Shandong in northeast China.

Traditional springs and dampers are referred to as passive suspensions — most vehicles are suspended in this manner.

It is sometimes also referred to as Traditional or Dentō ( 伝統, lit.

Located in the city of Gaithersburg, Maryland in the United States, Kentlands was one of the first attempts to develop a community using Traditional Neighborhood Design planning techniques ( also known as neo-traditional new town planning ) that are now generally referred to under the rubric of the New Urbanism.