Singing and playing are the four artistic means and the four basic skills of traditional Chinese opera performance.
related introduction:
1. Singing:
refers to singing, and chanting refers to chanting with musicality, which constitute a "song" which is one of the two major elements of the performance art of song-and-dance opera.
2. chanting:
chanting complements and cooperates with each other, and is also an important artistic means to express the thoughts and feelings of characters. Actors practice basic skills from childhood, and reading white is also one of the compulsory courses. Generally speaking, Chinese traditional operas can be divided into two categories, namely, rhyming white and scattered white, both of which are artistically refined languages, with a sense of rhythm and musicality, sonorous and melodious, and coordinated with singing.
3. Doing:
Doing work generally refers to performance skills, and generally refers to dancing body movements, which is one of the main signs that traditional Chinese opera is different from other performing arts.
4. Beating:
Beating is another important part of body movements in traditional Chinese opera, which is a dance of traditional martial arts and a highly artistic refinement of fighting scenes in life.
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Related background:
According to the traditional rules, opera actors received strict basic training from singing, reading, doing and playing at an early age, fully mastered the basic techniques and procedures, and became familiar with all kinds of musical vocabulary and dance vocabulary before they could make artistic creation.
When opera actors were young, they practiced their basic skills hard, and learned to play songs and learn drama. After learning a few or a dozen traditional operas, they began to perform on stage, and gradually learned to experience the role in artistic practice, becoming familiar with and exerting the artistic function of singing, reading and playing. Without basic skills, you will lose the means of creation; It is also difficult to create a distinctive artistic image only by mastering basic techniques and procedures.
In the process of long-term development, traditional Chinese opera has gradually integrated various artistic means of singing, reading, doing and playing, serving for moving stories and shaping characters. As early as 1 plays in the Han Dynasty, there was a program called "Huanggong in the East China Sea", which performed simple stories through martial arts and acrobatics. Song and dance prevailed in the Tang Dynasty, which was famous for singing and dancing. The performance of Song Zaju is divided into three parts: Yan Duan, Zheng Zaju and Miscellaneous Dressing, which integrates song and dance, drama and acrobatics into one set, and plays a role in mutual influence and integration.
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