The difference between Peking Opera and Cantonese Opera

1, Peking Opera:

The predecessor of Beijing Opera is Hui Opera.

Since the 55th year of Qing Qianlong (1790), Sanqing, Sixi, Chuntai, and Chunchun, which were first performed in the south, have been performed. Four Huizhou classes went to Beijing one after another. They cooperated with artists in Hubei, accepted some plays, tunes and performance methods of Kunqu Opera and Shaanxi Opera, and absorbed some local folk tunes. Through constant communication and integration, Peking Opera was finally formed.

After the formation of Peking Opera, it began to develop rapidly in the Qing court until the Republic of China.

2. Cantonese Opera

Cantonese opera originated from southern opera. Cantonese opera originated from Southern Opera, also known as "Grand Drama" or "Guangdong Grand Drama", and originated in Foshan. As early as the Han Dynasty, the performing arts in Foshan were very popular. Since Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty, Cantonese opera appeared in Guangdong. Cantonese opera is a performing art that integrates singing, reading, playing, musicians' music, stage costumes and abstract forms.

(2) Different languages:

1, Peking Opera:

There are two tones in Beijing Opera: Bai Jing and Bai Yun. Bai Jing is a Beijinger dialect that most people can understand. General clown, Hua Dan used more. Bai Yun is a language based on the basic pronunciation of Huguang dialect and the vowels of Zhongzhou dialect. Generally, old students, Tsing Yi and Hualien use it more.

2. Cantonese Opera:

Cantonese opera is sung in Cantonese, and some Mandarin is reserved.

(3) Different industries:

1, Peking Opera:

The classification of Peking Opera is mainly based on the characters' personality characteristics besides their natural attributes (gender, age) and social attributes (identity, occupation). The old saying of "Seven Lines and Seven Subjects" in Beijing Opera Club: Seven lines are healthy line, Dan line (also known as professional line), clean line, ugly line, miscellaneous line, martial line and popular.

Everything on the stage of Beijing opera does not appear according to the true colors of life. The roles on the stage of Peking Opera do not appear according to the true colors of people in life, but are artistically exaggerated in makeup and costumes according to the gender, personality, age, occupation and social status of the roles played, thus dividing the roles on the stage into four types: life, Dan, purity and ugliness.

2. Cantonese Opera:

The initial business of Cantonese opera is "one end" (old students), "two clean" (painted faces), "three upright students" (middle-aged male actors), "four upright dances" (Tsing Yi), "five upright ugliness" (leading roles of male and female actors) and "six". W (big-faced villain), Qi Xiao (small family background, small martial arts), Ba Tie (two gangs in Hua Dan), Jiu Fu (old family background) and Shi Za (male, walk-on and so on) are collectively called the top ten merchants.

Later, it was simplified to a six-column system, namely, Wen Wusheng, Xiao Sheng, Andrew Hua Dan, Erhua Gangdan, Ugly Student and Wusheng. These are all classified according to the characteristics of roles, such as age, gender, personality and appearance. "End" stands for an old role. "Life" stands for male role. "Dan" stands for female role. "Net" is a strong and violent male character. Ugly is a funny character.

(4) Different clothes:

1, Peking Opera:

Traditional Peking Opera costumes can be divided into: python, lying, pleating, squatting and clothing.

2. Cantonese Opera:

The costumes in the early stage of Cantonese opera mainly imitated the costume style of the Ming Dynasty and were improved into costumes. During the Qing Dynasty, Peking Opera became more and more popular, communication increased gradually, and the clothing system was gradually influenced by Peking Opera. At that time, the role of court officials was added to the new play, and some costumes also had the style of official uniforms in the Qing Dynasty. Traditional Cantonese opera costumes can be divided into: python, lying, pleating, opening, official clothes, official clothes and clothes.

(5) Different accompaniment instruments:

1, Peking Opera:

Beijing opera accompaniment instruments are divided into percussion instruments and orchestral instruments. Percussion instruments include banban, Dan Pigu, gong, cymbals and cymbals, which are called "Martial Arts Hall". Orchestral instruments include Jinghu, Jinghu Erhu, Yueqin and Sanxian, which are called "Wenchang".

2. Cantonese Opera:

The musical instruments used in early Cantonese opera were only Erxian, Violin, Yueqin, Xiao Di, Sanxian, Gong and cymbals, and their tones were relatively simple. After the lifting of the ban on Cantonese opera in Qing Dynasty, bangzi was added.

After entering the mature stage, there are more than 40 kinds of musical instruments used in Cantonese opera, which can be roughly divided into four categories: wind instruments, plucked instruments, stringed instruments and percussion instruments.

Among them, plucked instruments include guzheng, pipa and butterfly piano; The gongs and drums include fishboards, sand drums, double-skin drums/bangzi drums, cymbals, Luo Jing, hook gongs, war drums, big wooden fish, small wooden fish, big gongs and cymbals, and big drums. After the reform of Cantonese Opera, many western musical instruments were adopted, such as saxophone and violin, which made the music effect more perfect.

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