Three or five steps to walk all over the world seven or eight people a million soldiers at hand, the land five lakes and the world a few shifts of the time Wan Gu Qianqiu these verses are the description of the traditional Chinese opera art.
When it comes to Chinese opera, it is necessary to mention a place - Shanxi
Yuncheng found in the Han Dynasty painted ceramic building model of a hundred theater building, the building in the song and dance acrobatic dynamics are vaguely recognizable, can be said to be the epitome of the art of song and dance in the southern region of the Jinnan hundred theater.
Yuan Dynasty, Shanxi region of the Yuan miscellaneous opera writers are endless, the Yuanqu four in the Bai Park, Zheng Guangzu is Shanxi, therefore, Shanxi is known as "the cradle of Chinese opera", is not really a reputation.
The opera and the stage, as today's film and cinema, symphony and concert hall relationship. Theater, is China's unique theater performance building style. Most of the ancient theaters in the land of Sanjin are located in ancestral temples, where the stage sits in the south and faces the north, the stage mouth is usually facing the main hall, and the open space in the middle is the place where the people can watch, which can be said to have the functions of worshiping the gods and entertaining the people.
With the flourishing development of the art of opera, Shanxi in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, almost reached the degree of "villages have temples, temples have platforms", which means that Shanxi opera has been y integrated into the daily life of the people. According to incomplete statistics, China's existing Jin Yuan theater about more than 10, all in Shanxi, other places have been no trace; Ming Dynasty theater at least more than 20, the Qing Dynasty is countless.