What drama is sung in Minnan dialect?

People in Taiwan Province are singing Taiwanese opera.

Minnan dialect, commonly known as xiang opera, is one of the traditional local operas of Minnan language family and one of the national intangible cultural heritages. Gezi Opera is a Minnan dialect opera based on Jinge, which absorbs the nutrition of Liyuan Opera, Beiguan Opera, Gaojia Opera, Chaoju Opera and Beijing Opera.

Gezai Opera is the only existing opera that originated in Taiwan Province Province, China. In the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, Minnan folk music songs and dances, such as brocade songs, car drums and tea picking, were introduced into Taiwan Province Province and developed into a singing form of folk games to greet the gods-Gezi Array.

Later, under the influence of Siping Opera, Bai Zixi, Peking Opera and other folk art forms introduced into Taiwan Province, a new kind of opera was formed after mixed absorption. Because its predecessor was "Gezi Array", it was called "Gezi Opera".

Cultural characteristics of Taiwanese opera;

1, music

The music of Taiwanese opera is divided into two parts: singing and accompaniment. Its aria belongs to Qupai couplets, which can be composed in the same tone, different tone, different tone and different tone. Generally speaking, singing can be divided into four main tones, such as Qizi, Zazizi, Selling Medicine, Misizi and so on, as well as crying tone, and its accompaniment music can be divided into playing strings, playing cards and gongs and drums.

Step 2 perform

At the beginning, Taiwanese opera was mainly a duet between a man and a woman. Later, it developed into a mature drama with three lines: rationality, fun, white, life, courage and ugliness. His life has a small life, an old life, a literary life and a martial arts life. His life has a bitter life and a righteous life, and an ugly life has three flowers and a wife. All the characters sing with their real voices, among which Kudan is the most distinctive.

3. Rhythm

There are more than 100 kinds of traditional tunes, including melodious seven-character tune, major tune and nostalgic tune, ballad-telling tune with distracting thoughts in Taiwan Province province, and various melancholy and sad crying tunes. In addition, it also absorbed local folk songs and some opera music in Taiwan Province Province as a supplement.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Taiwanese Opera