The role of Ju Yang's opera

Although Yang Opera is a local opera, it has complete roles, life, beauty, purity and ugliness.

In the period when ancient paintings and incense dramas were in parallel, ancient paintings and ugliness dominated, while incense dramas were reborn. Ugliness has always occupied a dominant position in ancient Chinese opera. At that time, most ancient paintings and operas were staged in the square. At the opening ceremony, Xiao Dan was led by the ugly guy and ran onto the stage to attract the audience. In the play, he constantly quarreled with the ugly guy. During the Weiyang Opera period, he also had three characteristics, namely, learning the role branch, martial arts skills, costumes and facial makeup from Beijing Opera. At this point, the performing art system of Yangju opera has basically taken shape, with ugliness, Dan and life as the main industries in life, Dan, Jing and Ugliness.

Ugly performing arts are colorful and prominent, including ugly performances and ugly performances; There are Wu Chou who is mainly dynamic, and Wen Chou who is mainly static. Wen Chou is very handsome, while Wu Chou plays a role with high martial arts, agility, alertness and humorous language, focusing on jumping, vigorous movements, clear pronunciation and mellow voice, and singing while doing. Ugly people with different identities also have their own characteristics in performing actions.

The performing arts of Danxing not only inherit and develop the traditional performing arts of ancient paintings and operas and the performing skills of other operas, but also absorb the characteristics of Yangzhou oratorio. For example, The Story of Red Rock, Wang Yueying Watching Lights, Grandma Joe Scolding Cats, etc. They are all dramas with few characters and few movements, and they are all based on long singing.

Dan: Xiao Dan, Zheng Dan, Cai Dan, Lao Dan and Wu Dan.

The innocent and lively Zeng girl in Fortune-telling, the lady in the boudoir in Chen Ying Selling Water, and the witty and strong Ju Xiang in Life and Hate Story are all young women's roles. The voices of these characters are gentle and moving, graceful and dexterous, and some of them are dedicated to their work.

Zheng Dan plays a good wife, a good mother, a virtuous woman, a noble lady and so on. Middle-aged women are simple and delicate, such as Wang Baochuan in The Legend of Red Rock and The Broken Bridge White Snake.

Cai Dan is divided into two branches. One is to play a funny or treacherous woman, which is also an ugly behavior. Make-up and performance require exaggeration, heavy makeup and bright makeup, as well as abnormal behaviors, such as Wang Po killing his sister-in-law. The other is an outspoken, kind and cheerful woman. For example, Wang in "San Sou Dian" is quick-talking, pretending to be handsome, emphasizing reading white characters, expressing her character in Yangzhou dialect through crisp white characters, and singing less.

Lao Dan plays the role of an elderly woman, emphasizing singing skills, demanding vigor and strength, but not losing femininity, such as the Queen Mother of the Destroyer. Wu Dan plays a woman with strong martial arts. There are also two branches, one is Wu Dan, who is fierce and good at fighting, such as Bai Niangzi and Xiaoqing in Shang Jinshan and Yang Qiniang in Centenarians. The other team is the Beijing Opera Blues, which strikes hard and wins with bearing expression. Such as Mu Guiying and Fan Lihua. Both of them emphasize singing, and their singing is strong and straight, with softness and rigidity.

Performing arts mainly originated from incense plays. Incense drama is a polytheistic drama in the early stage, and also shows historical themes and legendary stories in the later stage, with more kinds of dramas. This tradition makes the horn have its own characteristics.

Students: divided into junior students, old students and martial arts students.

Xiao Sheng plays young people and teenagers, mainly in literature, and can play various roles. For example, Mei Liangyu, a poor scholar in Two Plums, and Xu Xian, a small businessman in The Legend of the White Snake. The singing is simple and soft, and the movements are elegant and elegant. Besides, there are children.

Old students mainly play men over middle age, and are generally upright and resolute. Middle-aged people generally wear green mouths, while the elderly wear white mouths, such as Li Tingzhi in Yangzhou, a game-writing protocol; Ji Qin 'an and Qin Xianglian, bookkeepers in Yimin's Book; and Wang Yanling, the prime minister; Yang Bailao in White-haired Girl, a modern drama. Emphasis on singing, rhyme white, and some use Yangzhou Mandarin, singing softly. The singing of the elderly has the characteristics of being old, and the performance is solemn and profound.

Wu Sheng plays a young man who is good at martial arts, emphasizing both martial arts and singing skills. For example, Song Wu of Song Wu killed his sister-in-law.

Besides, Jingxing also plays heroes, such as Bao Zheng in Qin Xianglian, the broken Empress Dowager Cixi and Bao Gong's remorse. Yang opera is mostly performed by young and old, with straightforward lines, rich style, big movements and momentum.

The performances of various roles and trades are mostly absorbed from Kunqu Opera and Peking Opera, but they always maintain the simple and lively characteristics of ancient paintings and operas and have a rich flavor of life, such as falling, bumping shoulders, riding horses, riding back, climbing drums, Yue Bai, Jade Rabbit, diving, riding donkeys up mountains and so on.

On May 20th, 2006, Yang Opera was selected into the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.