What are the four artistic means of drama performance?

Singing, reciting and playing are the four performing skills of China's traditional operas. Singing refers to singing, reading, doing and doing work, and it is posture and expression. Beating refers to the martial arts action in performance, which is a combination of dance martial arts skills based on China traditional martial arts.

These four artistic expressions are simple to sum up, but not so easy to do. We see masters of Peking Opera, who have been doing this art form all their lives, but few of them can be called everyone. Because these four items are not so easy to say.

Take singing as an example. Singing pays attention to "clear pronunciation and mellow voice", which is one of the main forms of traditional opera art in China, and has very strict requirements on skills such as four tones of yin and yang, sharp circle and five tones and four calls. Because singing is more important to be good at using vocal skills to express the character, feelings and mental state of the characters, and to express the inner feelings of the people in the play through the artistic appeal of vocal music.

We can often see Beijing opera actors win a house full of applause after singing a paragraph. These applause are not only affirmation and praise for the singing skills of Peking Opera actors, but also praise and praise for Peking Opera actors' interpretation of roles and promotion of plots. Because such a proper singing can raise the whole art of traditional Chinese opera to a higher level.

In addition, "singing" and "reciting" are actually complementary and cooperate with each other. Beijing opera actors have been practicing basic skills since childhood, and reciting dialogue is one of the compulsory courses. The "reading" of Chinese opera requires the actors to have a sense of rhythm and music, to be forceful and pleasant to listen to, and to cooperate with "singing" to reach the highest level of art.