What's the attraction of Beijing Opera? It's not pleasant to hear. Why do many people like to watch it?

Different aesthetics means different interpretations of the concept of "good looking", which is also determined by the times. For the current popular music aesthetics, it is beautiful in timbre and lively in rhythm, and the pursuit is the first sensory stimulation. In the era of Peking Opera, the pursuit of relatively implicit and restrained expression; The same is true of stylized virtualization rather than real performance.

For example, for the description of the voice characteristics of Peking Opera actors, people often have a term called "Yun Zheyue", which does not require direct expression of voice brightness, but indirect and implicit expression. This is completely contrary to the western view. The west wants to be a "mannequin", that is, to imitate the ideal sound of artificially processed unnatural musical instruments on the basis of human natural sound, which is the direct embodiment of this effect.

However, China's traditional appreciation angle is "simulated human", which means that even the artificially processed musical instruments should be as close as possible to the natural sounds that have not been artificially processed, which is the indirect embodiment of the effect. But the requirement for people who sing with natural voice is whether they should be divorced from natural voice. For Beijing opera vocals, theoretically, all voices can be artistically processed, while in the west, voices are selectively processed, discarding some original sounds and leaving only ideals.

China's tradition advocates the unity of heaven and man, step by step, and is natural, so he prefers the sound expression of the idea of "creating man".

The above are aesthetic differences, and today's aesthetics are mostly influenced by the West. China's traditional aesthetic concept has not been accepted by most people because of the times, but it is inevitable that quite a few people have a good impression on this traditional expression consciously or unconsciously.