Program combining Peking Opera and Dance

Peking Opera and Dance Combined Program: "The Backbone of China".

Peking Opera, also known as Ping Opera and Peking Opera, is one of China's national treasures, and is the most influential opera genre in China, with its distribution centered in Beijing and spreading throughout the country.

In the Qing Dynasty, since the fifty-fifth year of the Qianlong era (1790), the original performance in the south of the three Qing, four happy, Chuntai, and spring, such as the four Anhui artists mainly Hui Ban entered Beijing one after another, and from Hubei Han tune artists, while accepting the Kunqu, Qinqiang part of the repertoire, tunes and performance methods, and absorbed some of the local folk tunes, and through continuous exchanges, fusion and ultimately the formation of the Peking Opera.

Peking Opera has a set of standardized artistic expressions in literature, performance, music, stage art and other aspects. The singing of Peking Opera belongs to the plate style variation body, with the two reeds and the western skin as the main voice. Peking Opera accompaniment is divided into two categories, the cultural field and martial arts field, the cultural field to the huqin as the main instrument, the martial arts field to the drums and boards as the main.

The roles of Peking Opera are categorized as Sheng, Dan, Jingshi, Chou, Miscellaneous, Wu, Liu and other lines, and the latter three lines are no longer established exclusively. Peking Opera is now divided into four roles: Sheng, Dan, Jing and Chou. Each line has its own form of performance, and the techniques of singing, reading, acting and playing are unique. Peking Opera takes historical stories as the main content of the performance, the traditional repertoire of more than 1,300, often performed more than 300 or 400.

Peking Opera is divided into two main categories: Xipi and Erhuang

Among the common repertoire are the "Visiting the Mother by the Four Langs," which is sung by Yang Yanhui, and the "Tears Before Speaking," which is sung by Yang Yanhui. not open the words can not help but tears flow" is the old man's "Xipi guide", Princess Tiejing sang "couples sitting in the palace courtyard" is the Qingyi's "Xipi guide". "The Princess Tiejing sings Xipi guide used to start a lot of singing, more commonly used.