Henan Opera is the largest local opera in China, ranking first in China. In 2006, the number of state-owned professional Henan Opera Troupe was 167, which was the year with the largest number of professional Henan Opera Troupe and employees in China. Henan Opera used to be called Henan Bangzi, which was high-profile in Henan. Because early actors sang with their own voices, they turned up the tape at the end of the film with falsetto at the beginning and end. The name of Henan Opera originally refers to various operas in Henan. Until the autumn of 1947, newspapers in Kaifeng, Lanzhou and Xi 'an used this title to refer to Henan Bangzi.
The Artistic Features of Henan Opera
Due to the differences of pronunciation in different places, Henan opera has formed an artistic school with regional characteristics in music. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Henan operas in Luoyang and other places mostly used the lower five tones, while those in Kaifeng and other places used the upper five tones, which formed a sharp contrast. In order to distinguish, Henan opera artists call the vocals in Luoyang and other places the Western Henan Opera, and the vocals in Kaifeng the Eastern Henan Opera.
Henan Opera, rooted in the Central Plains, is full of great boldness of vision, aesthetic effect of appealing to both refined and popular tastes, high-pitched, vigorous, concise and lively singing, performance style of Xian Yi, young and old, humorous and optimistic language interest, easy-to-understand Zhongzhou phonology, unpretentious, generous and noble cultural characteristics, and realistic, close to life, flesh-and-blood mass pattern.