Artistic Features of Jingzhou Flower Drum

The ancient paintings and operas are full of strong local flavor and melodious singing. The performance not only shows the colorful life and style of Huxiang, but also has a strong flavor of Han folk life. Its singing mainly comes from local folk songs, minor tunes, fishing drums and Taoist music. Many vocals are permeated with folk songs, and some still retain their original forms. At the same time, it also absorbed some tones and qupai of Chu opera, Han opera and Han altar ditty, which enriched the singing of this drama. Its sound cavity has four main cavities, namely, high cavity, seven-water cavity, gong cavity, Siping cavity and more than 90 kinds of minor tunes. The lines of the play don't need to rhyme, and the local spoken language and two-part allegorical sayings are adopted. Has an active, lively and humorous artistic style.

Its performance form is developed on the basis of Han folk songs and dances and ground flower drums. Mianyang is low-lying and frequently flooded, so there is a folk song "Shahu Mianyang Prefecture, ten years and nine years". In the old society, people suffered from floods and had to leave their homes to make a living by knocking vegetables, patting fish drums, playing lotus flowers, playing lotuses and singing folk songs. These artistic forms have also been developed in the practice of artists, and gradually evolved into performance forms with costumes and simple stories, and most of them are short stories that celebrate congratulations or love life, such as Ten Plums and Fan Zhisi. This is what people called "flower drum along the door" and "flower drum on the ground" at that time. Later, artists borrowed from other operas and constantly enriched and improved them. They changed from singing to singing, from disguised as men to disguised as men, making their performances closer to life and art. For example, Cheng Lanting, a famous artist of the former Mianyang Huagu Opera Troupe, performed flower picking performances such as "Six Steps", "Eight Steps" and "Ten Gods", which vividly showed the gestures of seeing, smelling, listening, picking, stabbing, climbing, beating, releasing and tying. It has a strong flavor of life, pays attention to truth in shaping tasks, dares to break through, and does not stick to one pattern, which greatly enriches the expressive force of opera and shows the artistic characteristics of Mianyang ancient painting opera.

Music belongs to the gong cavity system. Singing can be divided into main cavity and minor. The main cavity belongs to the plate cavity. The lyrics are mostly seven words and cross-sentences. The traditional singing form is "singing with people, accompanied by gongs and drums". Singing is high-pitched and simple, with a wide melody range and a lot of melody jumps; Both men and women use the combination of "local voice" and "falsetto", and the close cooperation of "singing, helping and playing" has formed the unique singing style of ancient painting and drama. The main cavities are high cavity, sad cavity, water cavity, water rhyme, Siping cavity, gong cavity and resurrection cavity. The treble is also known as the "cranial cavity" because of its high-pitched and rough singing. This aria is bold and unconstrained, with a soft female voice. It is also flexible and malleable in sentence arrangement and line processing. Actors can arrange flexibly according to their own voice conditions and the needs of characters' thoughts and feelings. Therefore, it is one of the most representative vocals in Jingzhou ancient painting drama, which is generally used for the singing of this drama. Because Gao Qiang is good at expressing deep grief and indignation, it is used as a key aria in many plays. For example, the lyrics of Qin Xianglian's long sentences in Sanguantang are handled with high notes and sad sounds, and the singing is euphemistic and sad, which better expresses the feelings of the characters in the play. Xiao Sheng: Play more young people. Singing and reading are all loud. His roles are: Hu Jinyuan in the drama White Sail, which is good at singing, and Liang Shanbo in the elegant scholar drama Visiting Friends; Liu Hai and others in the martial arts drama Toad.

Health perspective: Play more honest, generous, resolute and free and easy roles, and love to fight against injustice. For example, Zhang Chaozong of Gao Jingcheng and Song Jiang of Wulongyuan.

Zheng Dan: Mainly plays a dignified, virtuous and strong young woman. For example, Qin Xianglian in The Hall of Three Officials and Qin Xuemei in Qin Xuemei.

Hua Dan: Also known as the "iron pole" merchant, he plays more pungent middle-aged women and lively little girls. Its performance footwork is light and flexible, with delicate movements and clear words. She plays the role of a catering girl in Ci Dian and Yan Xijiao in Wulongyuan.

Ugly: This business has a wide range of plays, playing employees, extremely young people, educators, shopkeepers, villains and so on. The characters they decorate are sharp and witty; Still cunning, cunning and smooth. For example, Mr. Zhang in Mr. Zhang's Money for Studying, and the judge in Shen Yin.