What are the characteristics of Huangmei Opera?

The aria of Huangmei Opera is a plate variant, which has three major cavity systems: coloratura, coloratura and main melody. Coloratura mainly plays a small play, with healthy and simple tunes, beautiful and cheerful, and a strong flavor of life and folk songs.

Multicolored tunes are cheerful and have been widely used in colorful operas. Huangmei Opera is a traditional theme in the original drama, which is divided into Pinghua, Huogong, two lines and three lines. Among them, Pinghua is the most important aria in the original work, and its tunes are solemn, graceful and generous.

Huangmei Opera is famous for its strong lyricism, rich charm, simple and fresh singing, delicate and touching, lively and lyrical, rich expressive force and easy to understand, and is deeply loved by people everywhere.

In terms of music accompaniment, in the early Huangmei Opera, three people played percussion instruments such as drums, cymbals, small gongs and big gongs at the same time and participated in the entertainment, which was called "three strikes and seven sings". After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), Huangmei Opera formally established an accompaniment system with Gao Hu as the main instrument.

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The origin of Huangmei Opera:

The origin of Huangmei Opera can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty. According to historical records, as early as the Tang Dynasty, Huangmei tea-picking songs were very popular, and after the development of folk songs in the Song Dynasty and the influence of zaju in the Yuan Dynasty, the embryonic form of folk opera was gradually formed. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the opera style in Huangmei County was more prosperous.

Huangmei Opera was originally called tea picking tune, seed picking tune and Huangmei tune, and later called Huangmei Opera. The tune of picking tea in woodcutter's songs originated from Yinshan Mountain and Taibai Lake in Huangmei County, formed in Daoguang period of Qing Dynasty, and spread in the vast areas of Hubei, Anhui, Jiangxi, Jiangsu and other provinces in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Xing Xiuniang, Yu and other artists have made outstanding contributions to the formation, development and dissemination of Huangmei Opera.

Huangmei Opera originated in Huangmei and developed in Anhui. Especially in 1950s, after the Huangmei Opera Troupe of Anhui Province adapted the traditional drama "Yong Dong whoring" into "The Fairy Couple" and put it on the screen, Huangmei Opera became one of the "five major operas" in China.

1920 "Annals of Susong County, Anhui Province" records that "the city is in the southwest, bordering Huangmei, which is good at picking tea, also known as Huangmei Opera." The entry about Huangmei Opera in China Opera Quyi Dictionary is: "Huangmei Opera, a kind of opera. Formerly known as Huangmeidiao.

Popular in Anhui and parts of Jiangxi and Hubei, it originated from the tea-picking songs of Huangmei in Hubei. 1959, the preface to Selected Works of Anhui Opera compiled by Anhui Provincial Cultural Bureau and published by Anhui People's Publishing House wrote: "Huangmei Opera originated from tea-picking songs in Huangmei County, Hubei Province, and flowed into Anqing area after Daoguang Qing. "

Zhou, a China opera historian and theorist, said in the Outline of the Development of China Opera History: "Huangmei Opera originated from tea-picking opera in Huangmei County, Hubei Province.

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