Traditional Chinese Opera in South China and Its Characteristics

Chaozhou Opera, named after its origin in Chaoshan, Guangdong Province, is commonly known as "Chaodiao" and "Yin Chao Opera". It was widely spread in Chaoshan, Guangdong Province and Zhaoan, Xiao Yun, Pinghe, Dongshan, Zhangpu and Nanjing in southern Fujian in the late Ming Dynasty, and was closely related to Liyuan Opera.

Chaozhou Opera, one of the top ten operas in China and one of the top three operas in Guangdong, is a national intangible cultural heritage and has the reputation of "southern exotic flowers". With its beautiful vocal music and unique performance form, it is well-known at home and abroad, integrating with local operas.

Chaozhou Opera is an important carrier of Chaozhou culture for thousands of years, and it is also an important link linking chaozhou people's friendship all over the world.

Features: Chaozhou opera is full of business, the first drama in life, Dan, quiet and ugly. The performance is exquisite and vivid, the body work is rigorous and enjoyable, and the skills are emphasized. Among them, Ugly and Hua Dan's performing arts are particularly rich, with unique styles and rich local colors.

2. Guangxi Opera

Guangxi Opera (commonly known as Guangxi Opera or Guangxi Opera) is a local traditional opera in Guangxi and one of the national intangible cultural heritages.

Guangxi Opera originated in the mid-Ming Dynasty, and Kunqu Opera was introduced to Guangxi in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. After that, Levin Opera and Yiyang Opera were introduced one after another, and several tunes merged with each other, forming a melodious and cadenced Guangxi Opera.

Features: The works of Guangxi Opera are exquisite and vivid, conveying feelings with the help of facial expressions and postures, and paying attention to shaping characters with exquisite and realistic performance techniques.

3. Cantonese Opera

Cantonese Opera, also known as "Cantonese Opera" or "Grand Drama", is one of the traditional operas in Guangdong. It originated from Southern Opera and is popular in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong and Macao. Overseas Cantonese-speaking Chinese communities also perform from time to time.

Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty began to appear in Guangdong and Guangxi. It is a performing art that combines singing, reading, playing, musicians' music, stage costumes and abstract forms. Every business of Cantonese opera has its own unique costumes.

Features: The basic tune of Cantonese opera is "Bang Huang", which retains some tunes of Yiyang and Kunqu, as well as Guangdong folk rap tunes such as Nanyin, Yuefu, Muyu, Dragon Boat and Banyan, and retains folk songs, music, contemporary songs and minor tunes.

The performing arts maintained the rough and simple characteristics of the early "mountain-crossing class".

4. Shao Opera

Shao Opera is a traditional opera in China. Formerly known as "Shaoxing Luantan", commonly known as "Shaoxing Daban", it originated from the Shaanxi opera, and was named Shao Opera in 1950. ?

Shao Opera originated in Shangyu County, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province (now Shangyu District) and is popular in Shaoxing, Cixi, Yuyao, Xiaoshan and Shanghai.

Shao Opera, one of the three major operas in Zhejiang, has a history of more than 300 years, with more than 400 plays, of which Harmony is the most representative.

Features: Shao Opera is a Shaoxing local opera with "three five seven, two times" as its basic vocals, and it has formed its own unique artistic style with its high-pitched and vigorous vocals, rough and simple music, bold and free performances, and both civil and military skills.

5. Yunnan drama

Yunnan Opera is one of the local operas in Yunnan Province. Sixian (originated from the earlier Qin Opera), Xiangyang (originated from Xianghe School in Han Dynasty) and Huqin (originated from Huizhou Opera) were introduced into Yunnan from the end of Ming Dynasty to the Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty and gradually developed, and they were popular in more than 90 counties and cities in Yunnan and parts of Sichuan and Guizhou.

Features: The performing arts of Yunnan Opera inherited and absorbed Anhui Opera, Han Opera and Qin Opera. Yunnan is a multi-ethnic province, known as the "ocean of national art". In the process of development, Yunnan opera has been performed in rural grass platforms for a long time, absorbing folk art and having national and local characteristics.

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