What are the main artistic characteristics of Jin opera?

Jin opera is the Shanxi opera. It is an important type of opera in northern China, and is also known as the Lu Opera in traditional Chinese opera. It was named for its rise in Fenyang, Xiaoyi, Qixian, Taigu and Taiyuan in central Shanxi. After spreading abroad, it was known as Shanxi Opera, later renamed Jin Opera, and also known as Zhonglu Opera. It is characterized by soft and smooth melody, beautiful and mellow melody, clear narrative, rich local flavor and unique style of Jinzhong region.

Since the 1920s, some of the old artists of Shanxi Opera have been alive, and the stage pattern could be maintained with men and women on the same stage. As a result, three types of excellent theater emerged, such as Taigu Jin Yi Yuan. In the twenty-fourth year of the Republic of China (1935), the Buyun Drama Society headed by Ding Guoxian, a famous female artist, and the Tangfeng Drama Society headed by Gai Tianhong went to perform in Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai, which greatly enlarged the influence of Shanxi Bangkok and enriched itself by exchanging experiences with brother theater artists. Later, Shanxi Opera saw a gradual shift from male to female stars.

Because female performances could attract more audiences and make more money, there was a general boom in training female artists. Actors in Shanxi opera? were characterized by a lack of female performers and a lack of male performers? , has caused many of the best leaning helmet plays, drudgery plays, martial arts plays, flower-face plays, and clown plays to gradually go off the air or disappear. It also made the unique passionate and exuberant narrative, singing and performance program of this northern drama's ups and downs gradually replaced by soft and melodious tunes and lingering styles, thus losing its previous masculine and resonant features. In the tenth year of Guangxu, Zhonglu opera rose again, and a new atmosphere of Zhonglu artists performing Zhonglu opera appeared, which began to change the previous situation of Pubang artists performing Zhonglu opera. From the fifteenth year of Guangxu to the end of the Qing Dynasty, Zhonglu Bangkas entered a period of splendor.

The performances included temple plays, market plays, dengtai plays, kaikou plays, commercial plays, market opening plays, praying to the gods, returning wishes, sacrificial plays, weddings, funerals, official plays, and so on. Ordinary villages also sing an opera every year; there are 5-10 large-scale market towns every year. The Zhonglu Opera has become a major favorite of the Zhonglu people. It also traveled with Zhonglu merchants to Zhangjiakou, Baotou and Naturalization to compete with local operas.