Kunqu belongs to which of the ten categories of intangible cultural heritage?

Kunqu belongs to the category of traditional theater and opera among the ten categories of intangible cultural heritage.

Kun Opera, as a kind of drama with great influence in the whole country, can be resurrected miraculously after all the hardships and difficulties, which is closely related to its own superb artistic charm, and its artistic achievements are firstly manifested in its music.

The Kun Opera has a beautiful melodious voice, which is characterized by a lingering, soft and long-lasting sound. In terms of singing technique, it focuses on the control of voice, the rhythmic speed of staccato and the delicacy of biting and spitting, and the scene is accompanied by a complete set of music. In terms of singing techniques, Kun Opera focuses on voice control, rhythmic speed of speed and biting pronunciation, and there are "豁"、"叠"、"擞"、"oh "and other cavity methods. ooh" and other distinctions between the cavity and the character of various types of character singing.

The geographical distribution of Kunqu

Kunshan cavity began its distribution area, began to be limited to the area of Suzhou, the Wanli years, Suzhou as the center of the expansion to the south of the Yangtze River and north of the Qiantang River, the end of the Wanli years, but also flowed into Beijing, to the Qing Dynasty, due to the Kangxi loved Kunqu, more popular. In this way, the Kunshan opera became the most influential vocal theater from the middle of the Ming Dynasty to the middle of the Qing Dynasty.

According to scholars, "although the aesthetic interest represented by Kunqu is obviously of the south, especially of the Jiangnan region, its cultural identity does not belong to one place at a time, but unites the aesthetic pursuits of the literati as well as the artistic creations of a wide area of China. It is precisely because it is a model of the literati's taste that it has a strong covering ability, has the possibility of being widely disseminated, and in the process of dissemination, basically maintains its internal consistency in aesthetics".

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Kunqu for the above