Performance characteristics of Beijing opera

Peking Opera is one of the representatives of traditional culture in China, which is famous for its unique performance and artistic features. The following will introduce the performance characteristics of Beijing Opera from the following aspects:

1. Facial expression

Beijing Opera takes facial expressions as the main means of expression, and actors convey their emotions and the characteristics of their roles through the changes of facial expressions. Facial expression can be divided into four types: frontal expression, side expression, back expression and head turning expression. Front performance is the way for actors to face the audience, side performance is the way for actors to face the audience sideways, back performance is the way for actors to turn their heads to face the audience, and back performance is the way for actors to turn their heads to face the audience. Through these facial performances, Beijing opera actors can show different emotions of their roles and let the audience better understand the plot.

2. Action performance

The action performance of Beijing Opera is very unique. Actors need to perform precise and complicated movements, including "hitting", "dragging", "pulling", "lifting" and "hooking". Among them, "beating" refers to the physical attack in the river's lake struggle, "dragging" refers to the role pulling clothes or utensils while moving, "pulling" refers to pulling out weapons to attack, "pulling" refers to the role hitting the ground with hands, sticks and other objects to attract the attention of opponents, and "hook" refers to the role hooking the opponent's weapons with weapons to attack. These action performances need long-term training and tempering of actors in order to be accurate, skilled and fluent.

3. Singing performance

The singing performance of Beijing Opera is one of the essences of Beijing Opera art, and its singing, performance, phonology and skills are very unique. Beijing opera aria can be divided into three parts: singing, reading and doing. Singing means that the actor sings the lyrics in a high-pitched voice, reading means that the actor reads the lines in a common tone, and doing means that the actor expresses the expression and emotion of the role with actions and facial expressions. Actors need to grasp the rhythm, timbre, volume, sound texture and other factors in singing performance in order to perform a high-level Beijing opera singing.

Makeup show

The makeup performance of Beijing opera is also an important part of Beijing opera art, and actors need to express their role characteristics and identity through fine makeup. The makeup of Peking Opera can be divided into Tsing Yi facial makeup, painted facial makeup, old face makeup and ugly face. Tsing Yi facial makeup refers to the normal dressing of men, painted facial makeup refers to the dressing of handsome men or heroic characters, old facial makeup refers to the dressing of older male characters, and ugly face refers to the dressing of clown characters. Actors need to pay attention to fine makeup and accurate expression of features in makeup performance.

To sum up, the performance characteristics of Beijing opera mainly include facial performance, action performance, vocal performance and makeup performance. These performance characteristics are an important part of Beijing Opera art and one of the keys to Beijing Opera's uniqueness on the world cultural stage.