They are: Kunqu, Peking Opera, Yu Opera, Pingju Opera, Yueju Opera, Huangmei Opera, Cantonese Opera, Liuqin Opera, Tibetan Opera and so on.
1, Huangmei Opera
Huangmei Opera is one of the four major theater genres in Anhui Province. It is one of the five major Chinese operas, originally known as "Huangmei Opera" or "Tea Casting Opera", popular in Anhui, Jiangxi and Hubei provinces along the border, originating from the tea-collecting songs of Huangmei in Hubei.
Before and after the Daoguang period in the Qing Dynasty in Hubei, Anhui and Jiangxi provinces in the adjoining areas, the formation of singing "two big plays", "three small plays" as the main folk opera. After absorbing the music and performing arts of Qingyang cavity and Anhui opera, as well as folk music, the performance of the opera.
Huangmei Opera's main singing voice, the big opera has flat words, fire work, two rows, three rows, color cavity, etc.; small opera with their own independent singing voice. Because it has been popular for a long time in the Anqing area centered on Huaining, and sung in the local dialect, it has formed a unique style, so it was once called "Huai Cavity".
2. Cantonese Opera
Cantonese Opera, also known as "Dai Opera" or "Guangdong Opera", is one of the operas. Cantonese Opera originated from the Southern Opera, which began to appear in Guangdong and Guangxi during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. It is a performing art that combines singing, acting, reading, playing, musician's music, stage costumes, abstract forms, etc.
Yue Opera is also known as the "Great Opera" or "Guangdong Great Opera".
Cantonese opera is a major genre in the southern part of China, mainly based on the clappers (known as xipi in Beijing Opera) and erhuang, which was formed by integrating Haiyan, Yiyang, Kunshan, and Bangzi, which had flowed into Guangdong since the Ming and Qing dynasties, and absorbing the folk music of the Pearl River Delta.
It is said that the original language of the performance was Zhongyuan yin yun, also known as the official language of the opera house, and at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the cultural people changed the language of the singing to Cantonese (commonly known as 白话) in order to facilitate the propagation of the revolution, so as to make the people of Guangzhou more easily understandable. Cantonese opera is on the first 518 items of national intangible cultural heritage list, which was announced on May 20, 2006.
On September 30, 2009, Cantonese Opera was recognized by UNESCO and inscribed on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Cantonese opera is the largest local opera genre in Guangdong Province, and has spread around the world with the immigration of Cantonese-speaking Chinese and their love and singing of Cantonese opera. Singapore is known as the second home of Cantonese opera.
3. Liuqin Opera
Liuqin Opera is one of the main types of operas in Jiangsu Province and Shandong Province, which is distributed in a vast area bordering the four provinces of Suzhou, Luzhou, Henan and Anhui Province, and has been called "La Soul Cavity" by the folk because of the charm of its singing voice which has the power of pulling souls and moving souls. "In the early 50's, the main accompanying instrument, the willow leaf zither, was officially named "Liuqin Opera".
Liuqin opera in the development process, the integration of local folk music and neighboring regions of the theater music, and gradually formed its own complete singing system, rich and colorful content, high-pitched gorgeous for the audience love, never tire of hearing.
4, Yueju Opera
Yueju Opera is one of the five major types of Chinese opera, China's second largest type of opera, known as the second national opera. Yueju Opera is long on lyricism, mainly singing, with a clear and beautiful voice, and a touching performance, which is very beautiful in the south of the Yangtze River; it mostly focuses on plays with the theme of "Talented Sons and Beautiful Women", and has a variety of artistic genres.
Yueju Opera is mainly popular in Zhejiang, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Fujian and other areas of the south of the Yangtze River, 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, and there are tens of thousands of amateur troupes, which are too numerous to count.
Yueju Opera has a high reputation and a broad mass base overseas, and is the most widely circulated local opera, which was approved by the State Council on May 20, 2006, to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
5, Tibetan opera
The Tibetan opera is called "Ajilam", meaning "fairy sisters". According to legend, Tibetan opera was first performed by the seven sisters, the content of the play is mostly Buddhist scriptures in the mythological stories, so it is named. Tibetan opera originated in the 8th century Tibetan religious art.
In the 17th century, it was separated from the religious ceremonies in the monasteries, and gradually formed a life-oriented performance combining singing, chanting, dancing, tableau, white and skills and other basic programs. Tibetan opera singing high and majestic, basically because of the people set song, each line of the singing is someone's voice to help and. The Tibetan opera was originally a square drama, only a drum and a cymbal accompaniment, no other instruments.
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