What are the four types of traditional opera roles in China?

The roles on the stage of Peking Opera do not appear according to the true colors of people in life, but are exaggerated in makeup and clothing according to the gender, personality, age, occupation and social status of the roles played, thus dividing the roles on the stage into four types: life, Dan, cleanliness and ugliness. These four special terms in Peking Opera are called "Shang".

1, healthy

Male positive roles can be divided into three categories: old (two-person-turned-old, redone-old, and martial arts-oriented), young (long martial arts, short martial arts, monkey-playing), young (fan-born, pheasant-tailed, poor, young), red and baby.

2. Deniers

The female positive roles are collectively called Tsing Yi (Zheng Dan), Hua Dan, Gui Mendan, Peking Opera Blues, Udan and Cai Dan. ?

3. Net

Commonly known as the painted face, most of them play some male roles with special personality, quality or appearance. The makeup mask has a loud voice and a rough style. "Net" can be divided into face singing, face singing (duet, called copper hammer blackhead), shelf flower (heavy work), five or two flowers, beating flowers and oil flowers (called wool net).

4. Ugliness

Play a comedy role, because put a small piece of white powder on the bridge of the nose, commonly known as little face. It can be divided into Wen Chou (ugly square scarf, ugly robe, ugly old age, ugly clothes, and also as a colorful Dan and a woman) and Wu Chou (also known as the opening jump).

Extended data

The branches of Beijing opera characters are very detailed. According to traditional customs, there are two kinds of methods: life, Dan, clean and ugly. In modern times, because the "last" lines of many operas are gradually classified as "life", "life, Dan, purity and ugliness" are usually regarded as four basic businesses.

The essence of China traditional opera is the systematic artistic exaggeration of life content, which reflects the unique aesthetic taste of our nation. The stylization of career is not only the stylization of drama characters, but also the stylization of performance skills. In China's traditional operas, people's understanding and aesthetic evaluation of the characters' personality, age, identity, status, character and temperament are reflected.

The establishment of the traditional opera career system is due to the development of the performing arts of southern operas in Song and Yuan Dynasties. In the past, the sub-network and sub-end, which specialized in funny jokes, gave way to life, thus making positive people the main performers on the opera stage.

However, only in the prosperity and evolution of Yiyang Opera did China's traditional opera art become completely divided. At this time, not only the occupations were strictly classified according to the personality types of the characters, but also several branches were refined in each occupation. It is in the long-term practice of drama performance that drama chooses and determines the commercial system.

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