Caixiao, is the people of all ethnic groups in Guangxi enjoyable local opera, originated in the north of Gui, widely distributed, the name of each place is different: Guilin, Liuzhou, Hechi and other areas called "tune play", "Caicha", "which ho hi"; left, right river Ningming, Baise and other places called "big tea", "ho hi play"; Pingle, Lipu and other places called "mountain lanterns ", "colorful lanterns", "tea-picking opera" ...... but to call "tune play", "tea-picking opera" In 1955, it was united and named "color tune play".
Colorful tune play is very popular throughout Guangxi, especially in the rural areas of the most prevalent. Only the Liuzhou area around Liuzhou City, Liucheng County, Liujiang County and Luzhai, Rong'an, Rongshui, Sanjiang, Xincheng, Wuxuan, Xiangzhou, Laibin and other counties have colorful tune play performance activities. It originated from the folk tea-picking songs and dances, and was influenced by Hunan Flower Drum Opera and Jiangxi Tea-picking Opera in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, and gradually developed into Guangxi Caixiang, which is rooted in northern Gui. After being introduced into Liuzhou in the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, the color tune plays were widely circulated in cities and villages and performed in the vast countryside.
Caixiang opera singing is a joint song, divided into plate, cavity, tune three categories, such as the role of the line to determine the cavity of the small student cavity, Danjiao cavity, clown cavity, shaking the Dan cavity, the old man cavity, and so on. According to the identity and occupation of the characters, there are Xianggong accent, Huazi accent, matchmaker's accent, monk's accent and so on. Those that are rich in labor images include the burden accent, boat accent, digging accent, drinking accent, etc. The main singing voices are the road accent, the four-legged accent, the four-legged accent, and the four-legged accent. There are more than 300 major singing styles, such as "Road Cavity", "Siping Cavity", "Running Plate", "Cross Cavity", "Minor Key" and "One Dragon", "Phoenix Nodding", etc., and "Siping Cavity" in Liuzhou City is more characteristic, and it has the name of "King of Cavity". It is known as the "King of Cavities". There are [v. board], [crying board], [scolding board], [worry board] and so on. The tunes are [Bigu Tune], [Walking Horse Tune] and so on. In addition, it also absorbs folk tunes popular in the south of the Yangtze River, such as [Fresh Flower Tune], [October Flower], etc. The accompaniment is divided into left and right fields. The musical accompaniment is divided into left and right fields. The left field is for strings and the right field is for percussion. The strings include the tuning hu (also known as the big tube, similar to the erhu), yangqin, pipa, sanxian, suona, flute, etc. The tuning hu is the main instrument. The main instrument is the tuning hu. The gongs and drums of the percussion are relatively simple, and the commonly used ones are [three nods], [a dragon], [a cymbal], [four cymbals] and so on.
The basic features of the performing arts of the colorful tunes, such as the eyes, hands, stance and footwork, are mostly reflected in the two roles of small dan and clowns (including small sheng), followed by rocking dan (i.e., clown dan). The steps, turns, appearances, fan flowers, and hand flowers of the clowns and Dan are very rich in the characteristics of this opera, and the footwork is especially prominent in the base. For example, the "Crazy Footsteps", "Twisting Silk Steps", "Stomping and Kicking Steps", and "Trial Steps", "horizontal move step" and so on. Dan's "heel step", "broken step", "cloud step" and so on. Fan, is the color tune "three treasures" (fan, handkerchief, ribbon) in the main one. Fan in the performance, can also be used as tools and weapons, so there is a "universal" props called.
Since the beginning of the civil war, there have been "Lin family tea-picking class", Liu Cheng Jingxi "eight immortals class", Liujiang Jandu "Tan family class", the suburbs of Liuzhou City, "Huangcun tune". "Huangcun Tune", "Changtang Tune", "Qunleyuan", "Yilotang", "Tongle Tea House Tune Class", "Guile Tune Class" and so on. Caixiang opera into the city to settle down, the development of the town is also more rapid, in recent years, in addition to the famous "Liu Sanjie", Caixiang workers have also created a "river to see the relatives", "two women fighting for husband", "Wang San hit the bird", "Wang Er Annunciation", "dreaming to listen to the bamboo," and other popular and excellent plays, in 1994, Guangxi Caixiang troupe to create and perform the "which ho ee ho hi" was hailed as the second best play of the art of Guangxi Opera after "Liu Sanjie", which was followed by "Liu Sanjie", which is the first one of its kind. Liu Sanjie" after the second milestone!
All in all, the colorful tune enriches itself and also enriches the life of Liuzhou people and even people all over the world who love colorful tune!