Chaozhou Opera and Chaozhou Music in Shantou Central City

Chaozhou Opera, also known as Chaozhou Opera, evolved from Southern Opera and was officially named Chaozhou Opera after the founding of New China. Chaozhou Opera is a local opera in Chaoshan, one of the three major local operas in Guangdong and one of the top ten operas in China, with a history of more than 500 years. Chaozhou Opera, also known as the wonderful work of China art gardens, is widely praised at home and abroad. Its outstanding features are: beautiful lyricism, strong tidal flavor, a large number of excellent repertoires, unique performing arts and famous actors, appealing to both refined and popular tastes, and being deeply loved by the masses. Many Chaozhou operas have been made into films and spread all over the country and overseas, and Chaozhou Opera Troupe has also performed many times throughout the country and overseas, especially the performing arts of ugly dramas are well-known.

The aria of Chaozhou opera includes qupai, antithesis and minor.

Chaozhou opera singing has a characteristic: it is to help sing.

The characteristic musical instruments of Chaozhou opera music are Erxian, Coconut, Big Flute, Big Drum, Deep Wave, Curved Bow and so on.

In ancient times, the lines of Chaozhou opera characters were divided into seven angles: raw, Dan, clean, ugly, foreign and paste, and now they have developed into 10 ugly, 7 Dan, 5 raw and 3 clean. Among them, it is famous for its "Three Little Boys" (Xiao Sheng, Xiao Dan and Clowns) and is known as the "Flower of the South".

Chaozhou opera is a wonderful flower of Chaozhou culture and the essence of Chaoshan folk art.

Folk music circulating in Chaoshan area is collectively called Chaole, including gongs and drums, string poems, flute sets, fine music, temple fair music and other varieties. It is an ancient music with unique artistic style, strong local color, deep mass base and high artistic value. Widely spread in eastern Guangdong, southern Fujian, Taiwan Province Province, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and Southeast Asia, enjoying a high reputation at home and abroad.

Chaozhou music is simple and elegant, and its source can be traced back to the Tang and Song Dynasties. Chaozhou music not only originated from the ancient music of the Central Plains in the Tang and Song Dynasties, but also inherited and integrated various operas and local folk music tunes such as Zhengzi, Kunqu, Xiqin and Waijiang. By the mid-Ming Dynasty, Chaozhou music had formed a kind of folk music art with rich repertoire, diverse forms and its own system.

Chaozhou music is spread through "24", "I scale" and notation. Among them, "Si Er Music" is the oldest music in Chaozhou, and it is also a rare music in China. The influence of Tang and Song music culture on Chaozhou music can be seen from the special melody of Si Er Spectrum and Chaozhou music.

Chaozhou music is a popular folk art form, with various playing methods and musical instrument combinations. Chaozhou music has five basic modes, namely: light six-tone, heavy six-tone, lively five-tone, contrast tone and light three-tone and six-tone. The most distinctive musical instruments are erhu and percussion. In the performance, except the gongs and drums, all were led and conducted by Erxian.

The performance forms are flexible and diverse, ranging from dozens or even hundreds of people playing big gongs and drums to 25-person string performances. It is an art form that appreciates elegance and vulgarity and entertains the public. It has strong vitality and attraction.