(I watch Huangmei Opera) Composition

Some people say that if you can't sing Huangmei Opera, you are not a real Anqing person. This statement is correct. In Anqing urban and rural areas, no matter men, women and children, who won't hum a few words "birds in the tree are in pairs, and both husband and wife go home"?

Huangmei Opera, which was born in Anqing during the light years of the Qing Dynasty, is deeply loved by people for its moving and euphemistic singing, mellow and sweet charm, fresh and rich local flavor and cheerful song and dance performance. In a short period of 100 years, this little drama, which was sung on the grass-roots team in rural areas, quickly rose to one of the five local operas in China, enjoying a good reputation at home and abroad.

Huangmei Opera originated from tea-picking folk songs in Huangmei County, Hubei Province, which borders Anhui Province. The northeast here is rich in tea. Every year around Grain Rain, groups of young men and women create and sing folk songs while picking tea, commonly known as Huangmei Tea Picking Tone. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Huangmei County was flooded, and the victims went out to flee, mainly making a living by singing. Tea-picking factions spread all the way to Susong, Wangjiang, Huaining and other neighboring counties in Anqing. Here, it is like a full seed buried in fertile soil, which will soon take root and sprout. The simple and popular tea-picking tune gradually absorbed the artistic nutrition of Anqing folk songs and folk music, combined with folk arts such as "Flower Drum" and "Lantern", borrowed from the performing arts of Anhui Opera, and rapped in Anqing's soft and easy-to-understand dialect, which was influenced by local folk customs. In the Daoguang period of Qing Dynasty, it was finally transformed into a new form of song and dance art performance and became a folk opera with unique local characteristics in Anqing Huangmei tune. According to "Wan You Pu" written by Tianzhu Shi Tian, "Jiang Yinan also has it" and "There is no such drama in other provinces"

In the early days of Huangmei Opera's formation, it was always regarded as "obscene drama" by the government because it mainly reflected the content of love life. Folk artists of Huangmei Opera can only set up a simple "grass platform" in the countryside and perform secretly. However, this kind of "Caotai" drama is warmly welcomed by the lower class poor, because the plot is close to life, true and touching, and it expresses the poor people's yearning and longing for a happy life and their inner feelings, so the more it is banned, the wider it spreads. In the 1920s and 1930s, Huangmei Opera finally entered Anqing, Shanghai and other cities, and was officially staged. However, artists still haven't got rid of the tragic fate of discrimination and persecution. Despite the ups and downs and hardships, the artistic digestion of Huangmei Opera in rural areas has always grown tenaciously under the careful care of the people, and has produced outstanding artists from generation to generation, such as Cai Zhongxian, Hu Puya, Ding Yongquan, Cha, etc.

1953, Huangmei Opera finally sang in Anqing. Anhui Provincial Party Committee decided to transfer a group of famous Huangmei Opera actors such as Yan Fengying, Wang Shaohang and Ding Yongquan from Anqing to Hefei, the provincial capital, to form Anhui Huangmei Opera Troupe. Huangmei Opera, following Huizhou Opera, has officially become a representative local opera in Anhui Province.

Yan Fengying, Huangmei Opera performer, 1930 was born in Anqing. He likes singing folk songs since he was a child. /kloc-learned to sing Huangmei Opera at the age of 0/4, and/kloc-performed on stage at the age of 0/5. In the old society, he suffered from life and busking. After liberation, her outstanding performances and artistic creations in the stage and movies "The Fairy Couple", "Ma Xu" and "The Cowherd and the Weaving Girl" pushed Huangmei Opera to a brand-new peak, established its prominent position in China local operas and created a brilliant "Yan Fengying era" in the history of Huangmei Opera.

The performance of Huangmei Opera is simple and natural, and the fresh style is pleasing to the eye and intoxicating. The stage of Huangmei Opera is dominated by Bai and Anqing dialect, and the singing is good at lyrical beauty. Liangzhu, an early version of Huangmei Opera, developed from the late Qing Dynasty to around the Revolution of 1911. Huangmei Opera, formerly known as Huangmeidiao or tea-picking opera, is a folk drama formed in the adjacent areas of Anhui, Hubei and Jiangxi provinces in the late18th century. One of them gradually moved eastward to Anqing, Anhui Province, and combined with local folk arts, sang and spoke in the local language, forming its own characteristics, called "Huaiqiang" or "Huaidiao". This is the predecessor of Huangmei Opera today. Huangmei Opera has experienced four historical stages from its emergence to its development: one-man show, three plays, three hits and seven songs, and orchestral accompaniment. The first three stages were completed in Huangmei, Hubei Province, which provided sufficient preconditions for the final formation of Huangmei Opera. The period from Kangxi, Qianlong to Guangxu in Qing Dynasty was an important historical stage for the formation and development of "Three Strings and Seven Singing". At this stage, the accumulation of traditional plays, aria and performing arts and the wide spread of traditional operas have been fully practiced. During this period, the traditional repertoire was very rich, and artists could perform more than 200 kinds of dramas and operas, commonly known as "Big Ben 36, ditty 72". Many of them are based on the true story of Huangmei, such as Gao Jingcheng, Gao Bafei, Mercy and Compassion, Crossing the Boundary Ridge. In terms of repertoire, it is known as "36 major dramas, 72% off small dramas". The play mainly shows the people's dissatisfaction with class oppression, the disparity between the rich and the poor and their yearning for a free and beautiful life. For example, The Story of Buckwheat, Guan, Tian Xianpei, etc. Traditional Chinese operas mostly show the life segments of rural laborers, such as ordering barley, spinning cotton yarn and selling buckets.

Huangmei Opera is a wonderful flower in the art garden, which is blooming in the white art garden of the motherland with vigorous youthful vitality.