English Vocabulary for Beijing Opera

English Vocabulary about Peking Opera

Peking Opera is one of the opera genres formed in Beijing, which has a history of nearly two hundred years. Here is the English vocabulary about Peking Opera I shared with you.

Introduction to Peking Opera

Peking Opera is one of the five major Chinese opera genres, the other four being Yue Opera, Huangmei Opera, Ping Opera, and Henan Opera. Opera).

Anhui Opera, the predecessor of Peking Opera. Since the 55th year of Emperor Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1790), the four Huizhou Opera classes, namely Sanqing, Sisi, Chuntai and Hechun, which originally performed in the south of the country, entered Beijing one after another, and cooperated with the Han Opera artists from Hubei Province, and at the same time, they also accepted part of the repertoire, tunes and performing methods of Kunqu and Qinqiang, and absorbed some local folk tunes, which were finally formed into Peking Opera through continuous exchanges and fusion.

On November 16, 2010, Peking Opera was inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (list of intangible world heritages).

Peking Opera Roles

Types of Roles

Nothing on the stage of a Peking Opera is as it appears in life. The roles on the stage of Peking Opera are not according to the original appearance of life, but according to the gender, personality, age, occupation and social status of the role played, in make-up, clothing and other aspects of the art of exaggeration, so that the role of the stage is divided into four types of roles: Sheng, Dan, Jingsheng, and Chou. These four types in the Beijing Opera in the specialized term called "line".

生(sheng, male role)>

In addition to the flower face as well as clowns other than the male frontal role (male protagonist) of the collective name, divided into the old life (eldery), Wu Sheng (military), the young (young), the red-faced (red-faced), dolls Sheng (young). boy).

Dan (dan, female role)

female positive role (female protagonist) of the collective name, divided into the green coat (main female role), flower Dan (vivacious and unmarried women), the boudoir Dan (unmarried young girl), knife horse. Girl), knife horse Dan (young female warrior), martial arts Dan (martial women), color Dan (elderly women clown).

Jing (jing, painted face)

Commonly known as the flower face, most of them play the character, quality or appearance of some special male characters, make-up with the face, tone loud, style rough. The "net" is divided into the net (zhengjing, singing flower face, also known as copper hammer or black head) and vice net (fujing, to action modeling performance is given priority to), vice net also includes frame flower (jiazihualian, to work frame, read white, performance is given priority to) and the two flower face (erhualian, martial arts).

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Chou (chou, clown)

Playing a comedy role, because of a small piece of white powder on the bridge of the nose, commonly known as small flower face. Sub-wenchou (wenchou, civilian), wuchou (wuchou, martial) and so on.

Singing Classification

Vocal Music

Xipi (xipi)

The singing is bright and high-spirited, strong and upright, suitable for the expression of joyful, exciting and unrestrained feelings. At the time of the Ming and Qing dynasties, Qinqiang from the west to the east, combined with Hubei folk tunes evolved into Xipi. In Hubei dialect, it is called "Pi", which means that it is sung in the east from the west.

Erhuang (erhuang)

The Erhuang of Beijing Opera includes the introduction (inverted plate), the slow plate (slow three eyes), the original plate, the stacking plate, the scattered plate, the rocking plate, the return of the dragon and other plate styles. Compared to Xipi, Erhuang is generally more calm, steady and serious.

Faces of Peking Opera

Facial Makeup

Red face (red face) has a positive connotation, representing loyalty and courage

Black face (black face) is neutral, representing fierce intelligence

Blue face (blue face) and green face (green face) are also neutral. blue face and green face are also neutral, representing reckless heroes

Yellow face and white face are pejorative, representing fierce and vicious

Golden face and silver face are mystical, representing gods and demons

Accompanying Instruments

Accompanying Instruments

Accompanying Instruments

Accompanying Instruments

Accompanying Instruments

Accompanying Instruments

Accompanying Instruments

Musical Instruments and Orchestras

Peking Opera accompaniment instruments are divided into percussion instruments (percussion instruments) and stringed instruments (wind instruments and stringed instruments).

Percussion instruments are divided into percussion instruments and wind instruments and stringed instruments.

Percussion instruments (percussion instruments) are boards (bamboo clappers), drums (drum), gongs (gong), cymbals (cymbals), etc., known as "wuchang" (wuchang, acrobatic). wuchang, acrobatic fighting).

Wind instruments (wind instruments) are flute (bamboo flute), sheng (reed pipe), suona (suona horn), etc., stringed instruments (stringed instruments) are Beijing Hu (Peking opera fiddle), Beijing Erhu (two - stringed fiddle), Beijing Erhu (two - stringed fiddle), and so on. Stringed instruments include the Jinghu (Peking opera fiddle), the Jing Erhu (two-stringed fiddle), the Yueqin (four-stringed moon-shaped Chinese mandolin), and the three-stringed plucked instrument, collectively known as the "wenchang" (wenchang, civilian stage). wenchang, civilian stage).

Schools of Peking Opera

Schools of Peking Opera

Schools of Peking Opera are customarily named after their founders, and the various trades are represented by figures from their respective fields.

Mei School

Mei School was founded by Mr. Mei Lanfang, and was the first school to be formed in the Dan line of Peking Opera. It mainly synthesized the performance styles of Qingyi, Huadan, and Diamadan, and carried out continuous innovations and development in all aspects of singing, reciting, acting, dancing, music, costumes, and costumes, and raised the art of singing and performing in the Dan line of Peking Opera to a completely new level, reaching perfection and achieving a new level of excellence. The artist has raised the art of singing and performing to a whole new level and reached the realm of perfection.

Cheng School

The Cheng School was founded by Cheng Yanqiu, one of the four great dancers of Peking Opera. It is mainly characterized by a deep and twisted singing style, which expresses ancient women through a serene and dignified stage image, and is especially good at portraying women from the lower and middle classes who suffered from tragedies and had a strong inner and outer character.

Xun School

Founded by Xun Huisheng. It is good at portraying innocent, lively and enthusiastic young girls, with a soft and charming style.

Shang School

Founded by Shang Xiaoyun. The style is characterized by robustness and gracefulness. Singing, reciting, acting and playing are not as delicate as they should be, and they win by their strength and power, with a masculine beauty.

Tan School

The Tan School is a mainstream school of Peking Opera and the earliest Peking Opera school in China, founded by the famous veteran Tan Xinpei. It was founded by the famous veteran Tan Xinpei. The singing style of the Tan School is known for its elegance and simplicity.

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