China's five major theatrical genres are: Beijing Opera , Pingju Opera, Yueju Opera, Huangmei Opera and Yu Opera.
Chinese opera has a long history, a wide variety of theater, according to incomplete statistics, China's nationalities and regions of the theater about more than 360 kinds of opera, the traditional repertoire of tens of thousands.
Its more famous types of opera are: Kunqu, Liuzi Opera, Cantonese Opera, Huai Opera, Sichuan Opera, Qin Opera, Shanghai Opera, Jin Opera, Han Opera, Hebei Opera, Henan Yueju Opera, Henan Luzi Opera, Xiang Opera, Hunan Flower Drum Opera and so on.
In the past half century, the most widely circulated, the largest audience of five types of theater, namely, Beijing opera, opera, Henan opera, Yu opera, Yueju opera, Huangmei opera, known as the "five types of theater".
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Peking Opera
Peking Opera is China's "national treasure", also known as "Peking Opera", "National Opera", "Pi Opera", "Pi Opera" and "Pi Opera". ", "national opera", "Pihuang", for the first of China's opera plays. If you count from the four Huiban into the Beijing, there has been more than 200 years of development history.
The name of Peking Opera was first seen in the Qing Dynasty in the second year of Guangxu (1876) of the "Declaration", the history of Pihuang, Erhuang, Huangqiang, Peking, Peking Opera, Ping Opera, National Opera, etc., the Qing Dynasty in the fifty-fifth year of the Qianlong era (1790), the four Anhui Hui class to Beijing and the Beijing theater of the kunqu, Han Opera, Yiyang, chaotic bombing and other types of theater after 50 or 60 years of fusion, the evolution of the Peking Opera.
The richness of its repertoire, the number of performing artists, the number of troupes, the number of audiences, and the depth of its influence are all the highest in the country.
Peking Opera is a comprehensive performing art. Singing, reciting, acting, fighting and dancing are all part of Peking Opera, which is a comprehensive performing art. It is a way to tell a story, portray characters, and express the thoughts and feelings of joy, anger, sadness, sorrow, joy, fear and grief through programmed performances.
The roles can be categorized into four major trades: Sheng (man), Dan (woman), Jingsheng (powerful man, also known as "big flower face"), and Chou (both men and women, also known as "small flower face"). The characters are divided into loyal and treacherous, beautiful and ugly, good and evil. Each character is distinct and lifelike.
The state attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage, on May 20, 2006, Beijing Opera was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
Appraisal Opera
Appraisal Opera is very popular in North China, Northeast China and some other areas, once known as the second largest opera, in addition to some provinces in its heyday, almost all of the appraisal of the theater troupes (Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and the eastern provinces of Henan, Guangxi, Xinjiang, Qinghai and Inner Mongolia, Yunnan, Guizhou, Chongqing, Wuhan, Jiangxi, Shanxi, Shandong, Shaanxi, Hui, etc.)
Appraisal Opera is a variety of Chinese operas, commonly known as the bungee jumping opera, Pingqiang Bangkang. The opera is also known as "Tangshan Rocking Opera", "Tangshan Rocking Opera" and "Fengtian Rocking Opera", and was formed in Tangshan in 1909.
Republic of China in the twelfth year (1923), the creation of the drama of the Police World Theater Society in Tianjin performance, because of its performance on the play more than "punish the evil and promote the good", "warning the world of the people", "commenting on the past and present" of the new meaning, and the new meaning of the opera.
When the play was performed in Tianjin, it was renamed "Commentary Opera" due to the novelty of "punishing the evil and promoting the good", "warning the world and transforming people" and "commenting on the past and the present".
Yu OperaYu Opera is based on the Henan Opera, constantly inherited, after the founding of the State of Henan because of the abbreviation "Yu", it is called Yu Opera.
Yu Opera is also known as Henan Opera and Henan Gaoxiao. It is also called "Henan Acura" because early actors sang with their own voices and used falsetto to turn the high end of their voices with "Acura" when they started and ended their voices. In the mountainous areas of western Henan, the performances are based on the mountains and the flat earth for the stage, locally known as "leaning against the mountain roar".
Yu opera, produced in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the first to sing mainly by the people, loved by the people, and thus the development is very rapid.
Yu opera's origin has been difficult to prove, one said: is based on local folk songs, ditties, and then with the introduction of Henan Kunqu and Qinqiang and other types of theater combined into the second said: by the direct development of the Northern Songs strings and cable tunes; three said: is the folk singing in Henan, especially since the middle of the Ming Dynasty
Later in the Middle Kingdom prevailed in the Central Plains on the basis of the fashion of small orders, absorbing the "strings and cables," and other achievements of the art of development. It was developed by absorbing the artistic achievements of "strings and cords" and so on.
Yu opera is popular in a dozen provinces and regions, including Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, Hubei, Ningxia, Qinghai and Xinjiang, and is one of the most influential Chinese operas.
Vietnamese Opera?
Vietnamese Opera is a traditional form of Chinese opera, also known as the second largest type of opera, and the second national opera, also known as "the most widely circulated local opera.
Mainly popular in Zhejiang, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Fujian, Shaanxi, Hubei and other places, in its heyday, in addition to Tibet, Guangdong, Guangxi and a few other provinces, autonomous regions, there are professional troupes throughout the country, according to preliminary statistics, there are more than 280, amateur troupes are thousands of more than can be counted.
Vietnamese Opera is long on lyricism, mainly singing, the voice is clear and graceful, beautiful and touching, the performance is very moving, very Jiangnan local color.
Huangmei Opera
Oldly known as Huangmei Opera or Caicha Opera, it is one of the five major Chinese operas. Huangmei Opera is the main local opera genre in Anhui Province.
There are also professional and amateur performing groups of Huangmei Opera in Hubei, Jiangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Taiwan and Hong Kong, which are widely popular.
Huangmei Opera, originally known as "Huangmei Tune", is a kind of folk opera formed in the late 18th century in Huangmei, a region adjoining Anhui, Hubei and Jiangxi provinces.
One of them gradually moved east to Anqing City, Anhui Province, the center of the Anqing area, combined with local folk art, singing in the local language, speaking, forming its own characteristics, known as "Huai cavity" or "Huangmei tune". This is the predecessor of today's Huangmei Opera. In the 10th year of the Republic of China
(1921) the publication of "Su Song County Record", for the first time formally put forward the name of "Huangmei Opera".
References
Baidu Encyclopedia - Opera Genres