Zhangjiajie what opera is Zhangjiajie City Yongding District local traditional theater

Zhangjiajie Yang Opera is a local traditional drama of Yongding District, Zhangjiajie City. The exact date of the formation of Yang Opera cannot be traced in the canonical texts. According to the recollections of the old performers of Yang Opera, there was already a molded Yang Opera about 200 years ago.

There are two ways of saying the name of Yang Opera, one of which is that it is a play performed by the farmers who planted the fields and the people who planted Yangchun, and most of the artists are farmers in the countryside and have been performing in the countryside for a long time, so it is called "Yang Opera".

From the development of folk songs and dances to become an opera, Yang Opera has gone through the "two small", "three small", as well as "more lines when the play" and other stages. Development process, by the folk lanterns, Nuo opera, Chenhe theater and other art forms of influence. Yang opera traditional drama, there are a lot of songs and dances in the repertoire, have the characteristics of folk lantern performances, and "disk flower", "picking up fungus", "pinch vegetable moss" and other plays, directly from the lanterns. Not a few Yang opera artists also perform lanterns, Xupu area is even singing lanterns during the day, singing Yang opera at night.