Local Traditional Drama in Yongding County, Zhangjiajie

The local traditional drama in Yongding County of Zhangjiajie is Zhangjiajie Yang Opera.

Zhangjiajie Yangxi is a local traditional drama in Yongding County, Zhangjiajie City, Hunan Province, and it is one of the national intangible cultural heritages. Zhangjiajie Yang Opera originated in the middle of Qing Dynasty and has a history of more than 300 years. It belongs to North Road Yang Opera. The singing method is characterized by the singing method of "hanging a gourd with golden thread", that is, the combination of true and false voices when singing, the true voice in the lyrics and the falsetto in the drawl.

Zhangjiajie Yangxi originated in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. The long-standing Bachu culture and art, colorful folk music and dance, and rich minority cultures in the border areas of Hunan, Hubei, Chongqing and Guizhou provide favorable conditions for the formation and development of Yangxi in Zhangjiajie.

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The lyrics of Zhangjiajie Yangxi Opera are mainly in Zhangjiajie dialect, with clear levels and rhymes, and there are five tones of "Yang Ping", "Shang", "Qu" and "Rusheng". The singing of Yangxi opera belongs to the folk song structure, and there are 18 major tones, which are divided into positive and minor tones. Orthodox tune is mainly tune, and there are other tunes, such as toad fishing, money tune, clown tune, yin tune, compassion tune, Beihe tune and so on.

Men and women have formed plate-like changes such as guide plate, rolling plate, scattered plate, shouting, mourning, first-class, second-class, third-class and running water, which is characterized by the singing method of "combining true and false voices"; Most of the singing methods in minor songs retain the characteristics of primitive folk songs, and the commonly used ones are men's grinding songs, women's grinding songs, Carex songs, incense lamp tunes, Liang Shantiao, flower-watching tunes, fortune-telling tunes, guessing tunes, ten beats, singing ancient songs, twenty-eight nights, big four and three streams, etc.