China traditional opera knowledge

Beijing Opera has its unique modeling language in shaping characters. It divides people of different genders, personalities, ages and identities into different occupations. Generally speaking, there are four occupations, namely "health, modesty and ugliness". Because of its vivid characters, diverse styles and strong dramatic effects, Beijing opera is often more likely to arouse the audience's appreciation interest.

"Sheng" in Peking Opera generally refers to the actors who play men in the play, and can be subdivided into "old pedant", "pupil" and "wusheng". "Old students", as the name implies, are middle-aged and elderly men. In the play, they often play the role of integrity. The lines are expressed in rhyme and white in Beijing opera, and the singing is performed in real voice. The style is strong, straight, simple and mellow, and the action modeling is mainly graceful, elegant and solemn.

Corresponding to the old students is "Xiao Sheng", which refers to the role of young men in Beijing Opera. Their movements in the play are elegant, charming and graceful. Singing adopts the combination of true and false voices, and the singing style is gorgeous and lively. For example, Xu Xian in the Peking Opera Legend of the White Snake.

"Wu Sheng" refers to the young male military commander who plays the role in the play. They show the characters' martial arts with superb martial arts. Do not pay attention to singing, but pay attention to the skills and difficulty of Wushu movements. For example, Zhao Yun in Changbanpo of Peking Opera.

In Beijing opera, women are collectively called "Dan", which can be subdivided into many occupations according to the age and personality of the role. The woman who plays a well-off family and has status is called "Zheng Dan", and Zheng Dan is commonly known as "Tsing Yi" in Peking Opera, which is named after the characters in Zheng Dan's works often wear blue robes. Dou E, the heroine in the Peking Opera Dou E Yuan, is a typical Tsing Yi character. Tsing Yi's performance is solemn and demure, beautiful, elegant and gentle, and mainly focuses on singing. Generally speaking, Tsing Yi's singing is beautiful and delicate.

"Hua Dan" in "Danxing" mostly plays innocent and lively or dissolute and provocative Tsing Yi women, and pays attention to workmanship and reading white characters when performing, such as the matchmaker in "Matchmaker".

"Wu Dan" and "Beijing Opera Blues" are equivalent to martial arts students in life, and they are all young and middle-aged women with high martial arts. They dress up like martial arts students, and they also rely on clothes. Most of them play female Xia, female generals and even female fairies. The performances of Wu Dan and Beijing Opera blues are often accompanied by lively gongs and drums, which set off the atmosphere on the field.

"Lao Dan" refers to playing the role of an elderly woman in the play. In order to highlight the characteristics of the elderly, we walk with a steady pace of eight characters, the colors of our clothes are dark Qiu Xiangse and dark green, and we sing with real voices.

In Beijing opera, the "Beijing" corner is a unique figure on the stage, and Facebook is the most colorful. "Jing" is also commonly known as "big painted face", because facial makeup needs to use various colors and patterns to outline the face.

The "clown" in Beijing Opera is also called "Little Flower Face". Although the makeup of the "ugly" line is a bit like that of the big face, his performance style is completely different, a bit like an exaggerated cartoon. The appearance of clowns often causes laughter all over the house.

Ugliness can be divided into Wen Chou and Wu Ugliness. Wu Chou often plays people who are alert, funny and skilled in martial arts, such as outlaws, Grand Theft Auto and so on. Wen Chou often plays playboy, jailer, bartender, night watchman, veteran, etc. Both Wen Chou and Wu Chou are humorous comedy characters in the play, but they are not all villains, although they are divided into good and evil in civil and military affairs and have high and low status.

The business of Peking Opera has been refined and standardized for a long time. It is an important feature different from other forms of drama to highlight the internal characteristics of the characters and externalize the internal characteristics of the characters.

This is Beijing opera, so you can regard it as a traditional drama.