Hunan Flower Drum Opera - Changsha Flower Drum Opera Introduction

The Hunan Flower Drum Opera has different branches due to the differences in regional voices as well as folklore and accent, among which, these flower drum operas all use Changsha dialect as the unified stage language and have their own representative repertoire and musical voices. Below, to introduce the content of the Changsha flower-drum opera, together with the flower-drum opera culture to see it.

Changsha Flower Drum Opera Introduction:

Changsha Flower Drum Opera is popular in Changsha, Xiangtan, Zhuzhou, Ningxiang, Liuyang, Pingjiang, etc. It is one of the most popular and influential types of flower drum opera in Hunan. As early as in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, it was popular in these places and has been performed continuously.

Changsha Flower Drum Opera main voice is "Sichuan tune", which is used in most of the plays. Because of the accompaniment with silk and bamboo instruments, the folk called it "string cavity". The "string accent" is also influenced by the Han tune Pihuang, gradually close to the music of the plate, there are also [first class], [second class], [third class], [guide], [wailing], [four wailing], [gin cavity], [tip cavity] and so on, and the main repertoire includes "Panfu", "Sacrifice Pagoda", "Catching Butterflies", "Flying a Kite", "The Miserable History of Liangzhu", "The Legend of the White Snake", "The Vegetable Garden", "The Legend of the Vegetable Garden", "The Legend of the White Snake", "The Legend of the Vegetable Garden" and "The Legend of the White Snake". The Legend of the White Snake", "The Vegetable Garden Club", "The School Money Hunt", "The Lulin Club" and so on.

The Changsha Flower Drum Opera, which uses Changsha dialect as its stage language, is one of the more influential flower drum operas in Hunan. It was developed from rural labor songs, folk ditties and local flower-drums (including beating flower-drums, ground flower-drums and flower-drum lanterns) for more than 160 years.

Changsha Flower Drum Opera in the ground flower drum stage, from the "two small" (clowns, small Dan) to "three small" (two small plus small), and then from the "three small" to a variety of roles. The "Three Little Ones" (Two Little Ones plus a Little Sheng) But the "three little" is still an important feature of Changsha Flower Drum Opera.

Changsha Flower Drum Opera Repertoire and Music:

In the traditional repertoire of Changsha Flower Drum Opera, there are a large number of small operas and folding plays, which are the most distinctive and representative of the repertoire. The small plays include the "pair play" and the "three small plays". Most of the small operas are developed on the basis of mountain songs, fishing songs, ditties, ground flower drums, bamboo horse lanterns and so on. Folding plays are often performed separately from the main plays, and they are the most popular plays in Changsha Flower Drum Opera. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the traditional repertoire of Changsha Flower Drum Opera was excavated and adapted, relying on the cooperation of veteran artists and literary workers. The key processing and organizing are "Liu Hai Chopping Woodcutter", "Lulin Meeting", "Yin Yang Fan", "Nan Zhuang Collecting Rent", "Liu Hai Playing Golden Toad" and other fifty plays.

In the music belongs to the "tune card linkage body", the linkage method is based on the need to shape the image and keep the singing layout of the unified and coordinated requirements, the same tone of the multiple tune card linkage, to achieve the delineation of the characters, show the purpose of the plot. But in the performance method, supplemented by plate changes to make up for the shortcomings of the tune.

Changsha Flower Drum Opera is divided into three categories: "Chuan tune", "gong cavity" and "small tune". The first two categories are called the "main tune", with a fixed vocal format, melodic characteristics; the latter category of tunes, melody, rhythm, modulation are more varied, and basically each maintains the original structure of the folk songs. The music of Changsha Flower Drum Opera is derived from folk songs and classical tunes. Changsha Flower Drum Opera has developed the roles of Sheng, Dan, Jing, and Chou on the basis of the "three little ones". However, the clowns, small dans and small shengs still represent the unique artistic style of this opera. The clowns are divided into pleated clowns, short body clowns, official clothes clowns, rotten cloth clowns, milk raw clowns and so on.

Changsha Flower Drum Opera accompaniment band, divided into civil and military scenes. There are big tubes and suona in the cultural field. Big tube is the main instrument, shaped like erhu, bamboo tube made of snake skin, bright and thick tone, accompanied by the cavity used to protect the tone; suona divided into large suona and small suona, mainly used to play over the door. There are drums, gongs (Su gongs), banknotes (Han banknotes), small banknotes and small gongs in the martial arts field. The beat is "kozi" (i.e., rectangular clappers).