What theater master is the one who sings without sound and dances without movement?

"The ancestor of the hundred operas, who dances without moving and sings with his voice" does not refer to a particular dramatist, but to the Kunqu Opera.

Kunqu is an art of "no movement, no dance, no sound, no song," and every program can be a beautiful sculpture, moving and vivid, and the vicissitudes of thousands of years and the ups and downs of a person's destiny can be condensed into a single moment and a single place, displayed on an empty stage.

Kunqu was listed by UNESCO as a "masterpiece of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity" in 2001, and in 2006 it was included in the first national list of intangible cultural heritage.

In December 2018, the General Office of the Ministry of Education announced that Peking University would be a base for the transmission of the Chinese traditional culture of excellence in kunqu.

Characteristics of Kunqu:

1. The most important characteristics of the performance of Kunqu are its strong lyricism, delicate movements, and the combination of singing and dancing figures in a skillful and harmonic way. Kun Opera is a kind of synthesis art of singing, dancing, mediation, and white all kinds of performance means with each other, and the performance characteristics of singing and dancing have been formed in the long history of performance, especially reflected in the performance of each character's body.

2. Kunqu's opera dance absorbed and inherited the tradition of ancient folk dance and court dance, and accumulated rich experience in the close combination of rap and dance through long-term stage performance practice, adapting to the needs of narrative and scenic performances to create many dance performances emphasizing description, and "drama" with the "opera" to become a strong storytelling and storytelling.

3. The recitation of kunqu is also very characteristic. Since kunqu was developed from Wuzhong, its voice is characterized by the soft language of Wu Nong. Among them, the clowns also have a kind of local Bai based on Wu dialect, such as Su Bai and Yangzhou Bai, etc. This kind of marketplace language around Wuzhong has a strong sense of life, and often uses a quick rhyming Bai, which is extremely distinctive. In addition, the singing of Kun Opera has extremely strict norms for word sound, line and rhythm, forming a complete singing theory.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Kunqu