How to understand the roots and folk customs of China's traditional operas?

The birth, growth, development and prosperity of China traditional opera are inseparable from the people.

Vulgar "prisoners". Folk custom is a root. Without this "root", traditional Chinese opera will be anaemic, wither and even die out. As long as we carefully study the history of any drama, we can understand that this is by no means an alarmist!

Talking about temple fair culture. Interestingly, we often talk about "society" today.

Ci is inseparable from "Saishe" and "Temple Fair". In terms of its nature, the ancient "racing" activities in China were different from "official races" and "village races". The "official competition" or "prayer competition" is hosted by the wizard; The "village competition" or "social competition" is dominated by the "club head" or "club head"

Hold on. Over time, the former gradually gave way to the latter. In the Song Dynasty, with the high expansion of temple fair culture, wizards began to lose power. From "entertaining gods" to "entertaining people", or "entertaining people in name". In this way, the temple fair culture has essentially evolved into one.

A secular culture, peasant culture. Although "Spring Prayer and Autumn Newspaper" may not bring people prosperity, peace in the four seasons, or good weather and abundant crops, it is the best place to gain knowledge and enjoy art after a hundred days' hard work. Through the temple fair,

It is indeed a combination of politics, economy, society, culture and even interpersonal relationships. In addition, traditional folk art activities in turn promoted the faster development of temple fair culture. In the late 1980s, only temple fairs in Henan Province were counted, and every county made statistics every year.

Temple fairs range from a hundred to a thousand. For example, there are 23 1 annual meetings in Linxian, 243 in Wenxian, 269 in Huaxian, 450 in Mixian and more than 600 in Yuxian. This is just some standard (three days for each meeting) meeting volume. In fact, the duration of each issue ranges from one day to one month. The play at the meeting

Classes (troupes) range from one to a dozen. It is conceivable that the total amount is quite large. Estimation: the total number of temple fairs in more than 20 counties (cities) in the province/kloc-0 is about 35,000, that is,13,000 "competition" days; These temple fairs can perform about 400,000 performances every year. This is just a folk custom.

Isn't activity the fertile soil and social foundation for the survival, development, improvement and even long-term existence, survival and continuation of China opera? In addition, there are many other folk activities associated with opera performances, which is the reason why opera and folklore are interdependent.