Do Taiwanese people speak Taiwanese opera?

Gezai Opera is the only existing opera that originated in Taiwan Province Province, China. At the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, Minnan folk songs and dances, such as Jin songs, car drums and tea picking, were introduced into Taiwan Province Province, which developed into a singing form of folk games to greet the gods-Taiwanese opera, and then introduced into Taiwan Province Province. Under the influence of Siping Opera, Bai Zixi Opera, Peking Opera and other folk art forms, a new kind of opera has been formed through integration and absorption. Because its predecessor was "Gezi Array", it was called "Gezi Opera".

1928, Taiwan Province Taiwanese opera artists fled Taiwan Province province to escape the persecution of Japanese colonists and brought Taiwanese opera to Fujian mainland. After 1949, the modified tune (children's drama) was mainly popular in Xiangjiang area of Longxi, and it was officially renamed as xiang opera.

On the characteristics of Taiwanese opera

1, performance

At the beginning, Taiwanese opera was mainly a duet between a man and a woman. Later, it developed into a mature drama with three lines: rationality, fun, white, life, courage and ugliness. His life has a small life, an old life, a literary life and a martial arts life. His life has a bitter life and a righteous life, and an ugly life has three flowers and a wife. All the characters sing with their real voices, among which Kudan is the most distinctive. The main accompaniment instruments of Taiwanese opera are coconut palm, sword fairy, jinghu, suona, gong and cymbal.

2. Metric

There are more than 100 kinds of traditional tunes, including melodious seven-character tune, major tune and nostalgic tune, ballad-telling tune with distracting thoughts in Taiwan Province province, and various melancholy and sad crying tunes. In addition, it also absorbed local folk songs and some opera music in Taiwan Province Province as a supplement.