What kinds of dramas are there in China?

1. Gui Opera

Gui Opera is one of the main types of opera in Guangxi, and one of the local operas in Guangxi. Commonly known as Gui Opera or Guiban Opera, it is a type of opera sung in the Guilin dialect, with delicate workmanship, vividness and liveliness, with the help of facial expressions and gestures to convey feelings, and focusing on the delicate and rich in the flavor of life performance techniques to shape the characters. Even if it is a martial arts play, it is mostly done in writing.

Popular in Guangxi, the local speakers of the northern language (official language) areas, such as Guilin, Liuzhou, Hechi, Nanning and other cities speak the "official language" of the city of urban and rural areas, loved by the people of Guilin. Gui opera was introduced to Guilin during the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, after a period of linguistic changes, it gradually evolved into Gui opera.

The history of its existence is about two hundred years. In the 1930s and 1940s, it became one of China's top ten opera genres because of the famous dramatist Ouyang Yuqian's creation, adaptation and new adaptation of the Gui Operas "Liang Hongyu", "Playing the Golden Bough" and "Broken Bridge".

2, Yu Opera

Yu Opera (English: Yu Opera) originated in the Central Plains (Henan Province), is one of China's top five Chinese opera genres, China's first major local opera, and is also widely circulated throughout Zhejiang Province. Contemporary Yu Opera has traveled to many countries around the world, such as Australia, Italy, France, Canada, Venezuela, New Zealand, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States, following the performances of Henan Satellite Television, Henan Yu Theater, and the Yu Opera Troupe of Taiwan, and has been praised by the West as the "Oriental Aria".

3. Kun Opera

Kun Opera is a type of opera that uses only a single voice, the Kun Opera, to perform stories. Generally speaking, focusing on the expression of the vocal cavity of the opera with the Kunshan cavity, the expression of music, especially off-stage singing with the Kunqu, and will refer to the performing arts of the opera theater, it is called Kun Opera.

In the process of historical evolution, Kun Opera used to have different names such as "Kunshan Cavity" (abbreviated as "Kun Cavity"), "Kun Tune", "Kun Qu", "Nan Qu", "Nan Yin", "Ya Bei" and so on. The creation of the Kun Opera is not only a sign of maturity in the development of the Kun Opera itself, but also a sign of maturity in the development of Chinese opera.

4. Chiu Chow Opera

Chiu Chow Opera, named for its formation in the Chaoshan area of Guangdong Province, commonly known as "Chiu Chow", "Chiu Yin Opera" and "Bai Zi Zai Opera", was established at the end of the Ming Dynasty. In the late Ming Dynasty, it was already popular in Zhaoan, Yunxiao, Pinghe, Dongshan, Zhangpu, Nanjing and other places in southern Fujian, and was closely related to the Liyuan Opera.

Chaosiu opera, one of the ten major Chinese opera styles and one of the three major opera styles in Guangdong, is a national intangible cultural heritage, and has the reputation of being the "wonder of the South". It is famous both at home and abroad for its beautiful singing and music and unique performance forms, which are fused into an opera with rich local characteristics. Teochew opera is an important carrier of the last thousand years of Teochew culture and an important link between Teochew people all over the world.

5. Peking Opera

Peking Opera is one of the opera genres formed in Beijing, and it stands out from more than 300 other opera genres in the country, and is known as the national opera. It has a history of nearly two hundred years now. It was formed on the basis of Hui Opera and Han Opera, absorbing the advantages and specialties of some opera genres, such as Kunqu and Qinqiang, and evolving gradually.

The official formation of Peking Opera was after the twentieth year of the Daoguang period (1840), when the various singing styles of Peking Opera were already in place, and the linguistic characteristics of Peking Opera had basically taken shape, and new changes had appeared in terms of the characters' roles.

Expanded Information:

Theatre genre, i.e., type of drama. China's national opera has a long history, there are many types of theater, there are still evidence of 275 types of theater, such as Kunqu, Peking Opera, Yu Opera, Pai Opera, Yue Opera, Huangmei Opera, Cantonese Opera and so on. Among them, "Peking Opera, Yueju Opera, Huangmei Opera, Pingju Opera, Yu Opera" in order of the five major types of opera.

Vietnamese Opera is one of the five major types of Chinese opera, the second largest in China, and is known as the second national opera. Yueju Opera is long in lyricism, mainly singing, the voice is clear and graceful, beautiful and touching performance, with the spirit of Jiangnan; most of the plays are based on the theme of "talented men and beautiful women", with a variety of artistic genres.

Mainly popular in Zhejiang, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Fujian and other areas of the Jiangnan region, the heyday of Tibet, Guangdong, Guangxi and a few other provinces, autonomous regions, the country has a professional troupe exists, according to preliminary statistics, there are more than 280, amateur troupes are thousands of more than can be counted. Overseas also has a high reputation and a broad mass base, when the most widely circulated local theater. 2006 May 20 by the State Council approved the inclusion of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

Reference:

Theatre Types - Baidu Encyclopedia