What are the characteristics of Dai drama?

In the performance of Dai opera, the traditional repertoire is mainly singing, including joy, anger, sadness and music. There are simple performances, or three steps forward and three steps backward, riding, fighting, sailing, etc. There are also some performances. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, due to the professional troupe, the cultivation of artistic talents in all aspects has been strengthened, and the script creation, director, performance, music, clothing, makeup and other aspects have made great progress and improvement compared with the past.

Singing is mainly based on the "drama tune" evolved from Dai folk songs. After the establishment of Luxi Dai Troupe, the feather tune of "Xidiao" further absorbed Dai folk tunes such as mangshi Chengzi Folk Songs, mangshi Bazi Folk Songs, Ruili Folk Songs, Peacock Songs and Recitation Tunes, which enriched the singing.

Traditional Dai dramas are only accompanied by percussion, which are mostly composed of drums (leading instruments), gongs, cymbals, bowls and gongs (that is, Dong-shaped gongs in Yunnan operas), and some of them are mixed with percussion, elephant foot drums, gongs and other Dai folk instruments in Yunnan operas. Luxi county Dai Troupe began to try out the music of silk and bamboo, with Banhu as the leading factor and Dai musical instruments such as Huluqin. But today, most performing groups still only use percussion.

The performance of Dai opera is enriched by absorbing the performance skills of Han opera on the basis of refining various dances of the nation, which has distinctive national characteristics. Dai drama repertoire is rich in content and wide in subject matter. There are small song and dance dramas that directly reflect the Dai people's living customs, repertoires adapted from Dai folk stories and narrative poems, and hundreds of repertoires adapted or transplanted from Zhang Hui's novels in Han Dynasty. After the founding of New China, a number of modern dramas reflecting real life were created and staged, such as Wedding Day, On the Border, Jinhuyuan and so on.

Traditional plays include Luohan, Thousand-petal Lotus, Red Lotus Treasure, A Warm East, Langjinbu, Seven Sisters, Sinan King and so on, which are adapted from Dai folklore and folk narrative poems. There are three saints' deaths, Wang Mang's usurpation of the throne, Three Jiangdong, Mukezhai, Huaguoshan and Pan. , adapted from Han dramas and novels, and also arranged according to historical stories and legends.

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Mu ying's first expedition to the south, sister Zhang, etc There are new modern plays, such as Three Back Rocks, Wedding on Stone, Golden Lake Edge, On the Border and Three Ugly Meetings. The more influential plays include Butun La, Tao, He E and Zuo Yannong, etc. Dai Opera Troupe of Dehong State Art Troupe and Dehong County Art Troupe are professional performance groups of Dai Opera. In addition, almost all the larger Dai villages have amateur performance organizations. Famous actors include Lang Junmei and so on.

Generally speaking, Dai drama music can be roughly divided into three stages of development: first, the stage of single genre. Before the 1920s, Dai drama music was characterized by only one tune from beginning to end, with percussion between tunes; Some plays have added a few folk songs or "Twelve Horses" tunes. Second, monotony gradually evolved into a male-female tone. From the early 1920s to 1950s, the two basic tunes, male and female, ran through the whole drama respectively. Percussion music is used in the middle of the aria, and there are several folk songs in the middle. A new stage of interlude arrangement. 1960, Yingjiang County and luxi county successively established county-level Dai Troupe; 1962, Dehong Dai Troupe was established. Since then, Dai drama has made many achievements in artistic innovation and improvement, such as increasing the sequence and ending of the drama; In vocal music design, according to the different changes of characters and plots, several Dai folk songs were interpreted. Percussion music is still dominated by Yunnan opera, and Dai folk percussion music is mixed with it. In the band system, Han folk musical instruments are mainly used and mixed with Dai folk musical instruments.