An Overview of Yang Dayong's Opera

After more than 200 years, it has gradually improved into a complete local drama. Yang Opera has a popular language and a strong flavor of life. Performance pa

After more than 200 years, it has gradually improved into a complete local drama. Yang Opera has a popular language and a strong flavor of life. Performance pays more attention to works than martial arts, and is suitable for literary dramas, family dramas and tragedies. The aria is composed of two parts: positive and minor, and the tune is *** 17. The main feature of Yang Dayong opera is that the orthodox aria is sung with the combination of true and false voices, and the tail cavity is raised by eight degrees, which is also called "narrow tune". Yang Dayong opera has formed its own unique artistic style and traditional repertoire, which is quite famous in Yuanshui River Basin. trace (back) to the source of sth

The exact time of the formation of Yang Dayong's operas can't be found in classical works. According to the memories of the old artists of Yangxi, there was a formed Yangxi about 200 years ago. There are two versions of the name of Yang Opera. One is performed by farmers and farmers in Yangchun. Artists are mostly rural farmers, who have been performing in rural areas for a long time, so they are called "Yang Opera". There is also a saying that Nuo opera and Yang opera are of the same level, and Nuo opera is performed to entertain ghosts and gods, so it is called "Yin opera". Obviously, Yang Opera also has performances to reward the gods, but singing Yang Opera in front of the court is mainly to entertain people, so it is called "Yang Opera". From folk song and dance to traditional Chinese opera, Yangxi opera has gone through the stages of "second primary school", "third primary school" and "multi-line drama". During its development, it was influenced by folk lanterns, Nuo opera and Michael Chen opera. In the traditional repertoire of Yang Opera, there are many repertoires that sing and dance, all of which have the characteristics of folk lantern performances, while the repertoires such as Pan Hua, Picking Mushrooms and Picking Cabbage Moss are directly from lanterns. Many yangxi artists also perform lanterns, and Xupu area even sings lanterns during the day and yangxi at night.

Dayongyang Opera was formed in minority areas, and many artists were from minority backgrounds. Some artistic forms of ethnic minorities have also influenced the artistic development of Yangxi opera. Tujia's Six Sons, Miao's songs and dances, folk songs and love stories of other ethnic minorities all add special local colors and ethnic customs to Yang's plays.