Collection of ancient paintings and operas in Hunan Province

The tunes of Hunan ancient painting opera include: Sichuan tune, cave tune, backhand cave tune and string minor.

Sichuan tune category. Including West Lake tune, cross tune, Yugu tune, Ningxiang orthodox tune, autumn snow and money tune, mountains and rivers tune, Yangque tune, Bigu tune, Lotus picking boat tune, one-word tune, harmony tune, western tune, bean curd grinding tune, Liangshan tune, anti-cross tune, foreign smoke tune, Nanshu board tune, Hengyang Hangzhou tune and Guabai tune.

Empty class. Including cavity, river-crossing tune, spring outing tune, good news and so on.

Backhand cavity. Including cursing chicken tune, yin tune, three-column incense, persuading husband tune, backhand cavity and so on.

Sixian minor. Including melon seeds, flying kites, washing vegetables, floating in October, Xigong Ci, picking shallots, watching melodies, picking tea and so on.

Ancient painting drama is the most homophonic drama in China local drama. Although it belongs to "Hunan Flower Drum Opera", it is the most famous. Hunan ancient painting drama is a kind of Han drama in Hunan.

Acoustic cavity characteristics

The performance art of performing traditional Chinese operas featuring ancient paintings is simple, bright and lively, and the performances of clowns, Xiao Dan and Xiao Sheng are still the most distinctive. Clowns are exaggerated and funny, Xiao Dan is cheerful and provocative, and Xiao Sheng is free and easy.

He has rich footwork and figure, and is good at using fans and towels. He has various programs to show rural life, such as boating, carrying loads, smashing and looting, chopping wood, striking while the iron is hot, grinding bean curd, touching loach, flying kites, catching butterflies and so on. In the later period, due to the development of the repertoire, the performing arts were also enriched, such as absorbing some carpet skills and processing skills of the brothers' play and enriching the martial arts performance.

The division of labor in ancient paintings and operas has also become more detailed, not only from the "three small" to longevity, Dan, cleanliness and ugliness, but also in the "three small".