Peking Opera in 50 words

Peking Opera, once known as Ping Opera, is one of China's five major opera genres, with the cadences of xi pi and er huang, accompanied by huqin and gongs and drums, and is regarded as China's national treasure, ranking among the "top" of the "three tripods" of Chinese opera. Peking Opera has traveled all over the world and has become an important medium for introducing and spreading traditional Chinese art and culture. It is distributed all over China, with Beijing as the center. On November 16, 2010, Peking Opera was inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

Expanded information:

The Peking Opera lineage is divided into three categories, based on a character's natural attributes (sex, age) and social attributes (status, age), In addition to the natural attributes of the characters (gender, age) and social attributes (status, occupation), it is mainly according to the character traits of the characters to categorize. In the old days, there were seven lines and seven disciplines in Peking Opera, namely, the Sheng line, the Dan line (also known as the Cham line), the Jingsheng line, the Chou line, the Miscellaneous line, the Wushang line, and the Popular line.

Everything on the stage of Peking Opera is not according to the original appearance of life. The roles on the stage of Peking Opera are not in accordance with the original appearance of life, but according to the gender, personality, age, occupation and social status of the role played in the make-up, clothing and other aspects of a number of artistic exaggeration, so that the roles on the stage are divided into the four types of raw, dan, jing and chou. These four types in the Beijing Opera in the special term called "line".

Peking Opera is mainly divided into two categories: "Xipi" and "Erhuang".

Common plays, there is the "Four Boys Visiting Mother", Yang Yanhui sang "not open the words can not help but people in tears" is the old man's "Xipi guide", Princess Tiejing sang "couples sitting in the palace courtyard" is the Qingyi's "Xipi guide". "is the Qing Yi's" Xipi guide ". Xipi guide used to start a lot of singing, more commonly used. In the play, Yang Zongbao sings "Yang Zongbao passes the order to the general on the horse", which is the xipi guide of the young scholar, and Bao Zheng sings "Bao Longtu sits in Kaifengfu" in "Guillotine Cases", which is the xipi guide of the pure line, and the eunuchs in "Playing Dragon Robe" sing In "The Dragon Robe", the Chinese Tai Tai sings "The Dragon Colt and Phoenix Carriage Entering the Imperial City", which is the Xipi guide plate of the old Dan.

Smothered curtain guide and general guide singing method is basically the same, but in the case of the actor did not go on the stage first in the back of the curtain sung, such as "Fading away from the Jin" Liu Xie (Emperor Xian of Han Dynasty) in the curtain there is a large section of the singing "fathers and sons in the palace courtyard sadness tears" is the smothered curtain guide, sung after the characters before the scene. But this is the two yellow guide, not the Xipi guide.