Before western opera entered China, China opera was the most important stage performance art in China. Right?

Before western opera entered China, China opera was the most important stage performance art in China. That's right. With the spread of western music, opera gradually developed. Before western opera entered China, it can be said that opera was the most important stage performance art, and foreigners called China's opera Peking Opera. In a sense, China traditional opera and western opera have many characteristics, which are the organic combination of three artistic forms: song, dance and music. They all focus on lyrics, express the drama content and promote the plot development. However, there are also differences. Western operas emphasize realism, while China operas emphasize freehand brushwork and vividness. Western operas pay attention to the contrast effect of stage background, while traditional operas in China mainly rely on the artist's performance talent. Western operas mainly use music specially created by composers as artistic expression means, while China's opera music mostly adopts the structure of qupai or banqiang, so China opera and western opera are obviously not the same concept. They are different in form but different in quality. After the May 4th Movement, China musicians began to boldly try to combine the genre of western opera with China's national conditions and national aesthetic habits while accepting the concept of western music culture. It has gone through the embryonic stage, exploration and development stage, milestone stage and peak stage, which makes it gradually integrate with western opera and become mature and perfect. In its initial stage, Li Jinhui's children's musicals took the lead. Although these works are written for children, they are not operas in the full sense. But he has plots, characters, specially designed solos, duets, song and dance scenes, pure dance scenes and personal inner monologues. Therefore, he basically has some main features of traditional Chinese opera, which can be said to be the embryonic form of China opera. It has accumulated experience for the creation of China's new opera and opened the first page of the development history of China's opera.