Basic knowledge of traditional Chinese opera

China opera is mainly composed of folk songs and dances, rap and burlesque. The first person who used the word "opera" in history was Song (1240- 13 19), who proposed "Yongjia Opera" in The Biography of the Poet Wu. What he said was "Southern Opera", "Drama" and "Yongjia Opera". Since modern Wang Guowei, "drama" has been used as the general name of traditional drama culture in China.

Traditional Chinese opera is one of the traditional arts in China. There are all kinds of interesting operas, including singing, dancing, talking, singing and martial arts. This is unique in the history of world drama. Its main features are: taking Peking Opera, the representative of China classical opera, as an example, one is that women dress up as men (in Yue Opera, women often dress up as men); The second is to divide life, Dan, essence and ugliness into four major industries; Third, there is an exaggerated makeup art-Facebook; Fourthly, "costume" (that is, costumes and props of China traditional operas) basically have fixed styles and specifications; The fifth is to use "procedures" to implement. China's national operas, from "Nuo Opera" in pre-Qin Dynasty, "Hundred Operas" in Han Dynasty, "Joining the Army" in Tang Dynasty, Zaju in Song Dynasty, Southern Opera in Southern Song Dynasty and Zaju in Yuan Dynasty, to the unprecedented prosperity of local operas in Qing Dynasty and the formation of Beijing Opera.

The virtuality of drama refers to the process of expressing the reality of life with the virtuality of art, and it is the basic method of expressing life in drama. It uses the assumption of stage to deal with time and space flexibly. In the relationship between art and life, we strive for spiritual similarity, not formal similarity. For example, rowing a virtual boat to explore the virtual night and expressing the change of time with a louder voice. For the natural environment, objects, people, natural phenomena, etc. We also use virtual methods to complete artistic creation with the help of the audience's association. Terminology of China Opera. It is the same factor that unifies various artistic means of singing, reading and playing. It consists of the rhythm of body movements and the rhythm of music, which complement each other. China traditional opera has a strong sense of rhythm in singing, performance, dance and martial arts. It can help to express the emotions of the characters, dye, contrast and render the stage atmosphere for the drama.

The artistic and technical rules and norms formed and developed in China's traditional drama performances. It refines and processes the language and actions in life, making singing, reading, doing, playing and music accompaniment, makeup, clothing and so on. All of them have formed standardized performance methods, making life forms musical, dancing and standardized. Such as closing doors, boating and horse racing in performances, have basically fixed formats. It is more expressive and formal than the natural form in life, and the program must be enriched, changed and developed with the development of society.

The penultimate play in the folding opera performance. Named after the last play "The Big Axis".

String play is commonly known as "string play", which is called string play because the characters must string together into teams. It is said that this string of words comes from the word "Cuan" because in the old society, it was also called "Cuan" or "Cuan Nong".

Cross-dressing refers to an artist playing a role outside his original career. Such as actors Dan Xing, Sheng Xing or Wu Sheng.

Guest appearance of non-professional actors in cultural performances is called guest appearance.