Peking Opera General Knowledge Test

1. Knowledge Contest on Peking Opera and Answers

1. Peking Opera is the national treasure of China, which has a history of more than 200 years so far.

What are the two main vocal cadences of Peking Opera?

What are the two main vocal cadences of Peking opera?

What are the two main vocal cadences of Peking opera?

What are the two main vocal cadences of Peking opera?

What are the two main voices of Peking opera? ("Xipi" and "Erhuang") 2, Peking Opera has its own unique modeling language in shaping the characters. It divides characters of different genders, personalities, ages and statuses into different lines, generally speaking, what are the four major lines? ("Sheng, Dan, Jing and Chou") 3. The "Sheng line" in Peking Opera generally refers to the actors who play men in the play, which can be subdivided into what kinds? (Lao Sheng, Xiao Sheng and Wu Sheng) 4. In Peking Opera, women are collectively called Dan, which can be subdivided into which lines according to the age and character of the characters? Please name four of them ("flower girl", "Qingyi", "Wu Dan" and "knife horse Dan", "old Dan") 5, in the Beijing opera, the "net" line is a unique style of characters on the stage, the most colorful facial makeup.

"Pure" because the facial makeup to use a variety of colors and patterns outline the face, so also commonly known as what? Give a representative of the net line (Bao Zheng, Guan Gong, Douerdun, etc.) ("big flower face") 6, "ugly" actor in Beijing opera is also known as the "small flower face"." Clown" line of makeup and big flower face is a bit similar, but his performance style is completely different, a bit like an exaggerated caricature.

The clown's appearance often brings laughter to the hall. What are the two types of clowns? (There are two types of clowns: the "clerical clowns" and the "military clowns.")

7. What are the main percussion instruments of Peking Opera? (boards, drums, gongs, and cymbals) 8. What are the four basic types of coloring methods for depicting faces in Peking Opera? (rubbing, hooking, erasing, breaking) 9, please name the *** plays of Mei Lanfang (Farewell My Concubine, The Drunken Concubine, The God of Luo) 10 What is the introduction played by the orchestra before the actors sing and the interlude in the midst of the singing, called? Experienced audience members will know what style the actors are going to sing as soon as they hear it.

He specialized in short-form martial arts and was once called "The First Brave Martial Artist". Because of his outstanding creation in the Wu Sung theater, so the world known as what? ("Living Wu Sung") ("Living Wu Sung") 12 Peking Opera, the playwrights with a variety of beard, the term called "beard", the color of the beard mainly which three? (including black, gray and white) 13 What is meant by the call sign in Peking Opera? (The actor's hint to the drummer before starting the song.) 14 Which are the "Four Famous Dancers"? (Mei Lanfang, Cheng Yanqiu, Shang Xiaoyun, Xun Huisheng) 15 Peking Opera costumes can be broadly divided into which categories? (python, leaning, phi, pleats, etc.) 16 Peking Opera recitation is mainly divided into "Peking Bai" and "Rhyme Bai".

Jingbai is a Beijing dialect processed through the initial processing, its rhythm of fast and slow, the tone of the ups and downs of the more exaggerated. Which line in Beijing opera uses Jingbai in its recitation? (Hua Dan and the clowns all use Jingbai.) 17 "Helmet" is a collective term for the various types of crowns and hats worn by characters in traditional Chinese opera.

The same is the crown hat, the wing style is different. The upward-facing wing is called Chaotian wing, worn by emperors and high-ranking bureaucrats; why is the general direction of the sarongs of civil officials? (flat straight wings) 18 Peking Opera actors, mainly boys, between the ages of 14 and 18 years old, produce the phenomenon of voice change, what is the professional term for this phenomenon called? (flat wing) (flat wing) (inverted position) (inverted position) 19 Peking Opera in the four skills and five methods refers to what? (Singing, reading, acting, hand, eye, body, method and step) 20 Who are the four great sousen of Peking Opera? (Ma Lianliang, Tan Fuying, Yang Baosen, Xi Xiaobo).

2. A question about the language knowledge of Peking Opera

The red face symbolizes loyalty, righteousness, uprightness, and blood, such as: Guan Yu in the "Three Kingdoms", Wu Han in the "Chopping the Scripture Hall".

Other: Ironic meaning, indicating a fake good guy.

Guan Yu (red face)

The black face not only shows the seriousness of the character, not smiling, such as Bao Zheng in the "Bao Gong Opera"; but also symbolizes the mighty, powerful, rude and brash, such as Zhang Fei in the "Three Kingdoms Opera", "Water Margin Opera", "Water Margin Opera", "Water Margin Opera", "Water Margin Opera", "Water Margin Opera", "Water Margin Opera", and so on. Li Kui in "Water Margin Play" and Jiao Zan in "Yang Pai Feng".

Other: The yin in yin and yang, used for ghosts. It is used for ghosts with darker skin color or ugly appearance.

Zhang Fei (Butterfly Face with Black Cross Gate)

White Face: A treacherous and suspicious face, e.g. Cao Cao in "Three Kingdoms", Yan Song in "Fighting Yan Song".

Cao Cao (white face)

The blue face expresses the character of straight and untamed, such as: Ma Wu in "On the rooftop" and Douerdun in "The chain of traps".

Dou Er Dun (blue flower and three tiles face)

Purple face: It shows solemnity, stability, and a sense of justice, e.g. Xu Yanzhao in "The Second Palace" and Zhuanzhu in "Fish Intestine Sword".

Others: bad and ugly face.

Zhang He (purple three tile face)

Golden face Symbolizes the majesty and solemnity, expresses the role of gods and immortals. For example, Rulai Buddha and Erlang Shen in "The Palace of Heaven".

Roc (golden face)

Green face: Brave and reckless. E.g. Xu Shiyin in Baishuitan

Others: green men.

Yellow: generally expresses fierce character. For example, Lian Po in "Nanyangtian".

Brown and pink: show more upright old men.

Gold and silver: used for Buddha and gods and goddesses of a class of characters, such as Buddha, Erlang Shen. Sometimes also used for some of the more magical powers of the elves.

3. Questions for the Opera Knowledge Contest

1. Which are the four famous dancers of Peking Opera? (Mei Lanfang, Shang Xiaoyun, Cheng Yanqiu, Xun Huisheng)

In the late 1920s and early 1930s of the last century, the selection was initiated by the public, and these four outstanding artists in the Dan line at that time were selected.

2. Which Chinese opera was the first to be inscribed on UNESCO's list of "Oral and Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity"? (Kunqu)

Kunqu is known as the "Ancestor of the Hundred Operas".

3. What are the four major roles in Peking Opera? (Sheng, Dan, Jing, Chou)

There is another way of saying "Sheng, Dan, Jing, Mou, Chou", but the Mou line has now been merged into the Sheng and Jing lines.

4. What are the "four virtues" of Peking Opera? (Singing, reciting, acting, and fighting)

5. What are the "Five Methods" of Peking Opera? (hand, eye, body, method, step)

6. Which Peking Opera master acted in China's first movie, Dingjunshan? (Tan Xinpei)

7. What was the first Chinese movie with sound? Who starred in it? (Peking Opera "Four Langs Visiting Mother" starring Tan Fuying)

8. What was China's first color ***? Who starred in it? (Peking Opera "The Hate of Life and Death" starring Mei Lanfang)

9. After the founding of New China, what was the first colorful *** starring Yueju Opera artists Yuan Xuefen and Fan Ruijuan? (Liang Zhu)

10. Can you name three of the Ten Sisters of Yueju Opera? (Yuan Xuefen, Yin Guifang, Zhu Shuizhao, Fan Ruijuan, Fu Quanxiang, Xu Yulan, Xiaodangui, Xu Tianhong, Zhang Guifeng, Wu Xiaolou)

At that time, in order to revitalize the art of Yueju Opera, the ten artists jointly staged a charity performance of "Love of the River and the Mountains," which was known as "Ten Sisters of Yueju Opera" by the audience.

11. Which province and region did the Kunqu, Yueju Opera, and Huangmei Opera originate from? (Kunqu: Kunshan, Jiangsu Province (Suzhou); Yueju Opera: Sheng County, Zhejiang Province (Shaoxing); Huangmei Opera: Huangmei County, Hubei Province)

12. Can you tell the professional names of the beards worn by opera performers? (beard)

13. Do you know how many years of history of Kunqu? (600 years)

14. Do you know how many years of history of Beijing opera? (more than 200 years)

15. Do you know what are the two main musical systems in Peking Opera? (Xipi, Erhuang)

16. The world's three major theater performance system in addition to Brecht's system, Stanislavsky's system, there is another what is the theater performance system? (Mei Lanfang performance system)

17. Yu opera is a local theater in which province? (Henan)

Representative works include Mulan and Mu Guiying's Commander-in-Chief

18. Qin Qiong is a character in which play?

A. One Arrow of Vengeance, B. The Second Palace, C. The Three Shops, D. The Four Scholars

(Answer: C)

19. Shanxi Opera is also known as Jin Opera, right? (Correct)

20. Which of the following is not one of the Five Golden Flowers of Huangmei Opera?

A. Malan B. Wu Qiong C. Han Zaifen D. Wu Yaling

(Answer: C)

The other two are Yuan Mei and Yang Jun

21. In the Peking Opera, "Wisdom Takes the Tiger Mountain," there is a code phrase, "The Heavenly King Covers the Earthly Tigers," but do you know the next phrase?

(Answer: The Pagoda Takes the River Demon)

22. Which of the following stars was not an opera singer?

A. Jiang Qinqin B. He Saifei C. Tu Honggang D. Leslie Cheung

(Answer: D)

But Leslie Cheung once appeared in the movie Farewell My Concubine under the direction of the famous Cheng Pai qingyi, Zhang Manling.

23. "Farewell My Concubine" is a famous piece from that school of Peking Opera?

A. Mei School B. Shang School C. Cheng School D. Xun School

(Answer: A)

There is a saying that the Mei School is good at playing "nymphs", the Cheng School is good at playing martyrs, the Shang School is good at playing chivalrous women, and the Xun School is good at playing young girls.

Supplement: There are a lot of mistakes in the answers downstairs

4, how many years has the history of Kun Opera so far (more than 200 years)

should be 600 years

5, good at performing the image of the ancient women with a sense of justice is the Beijing Opera, which of the four great dancers (Meilanfang)

should be the Shang Xiaoyun

10, the origins of the Chinese Opera? Which forms? (folk songs and dances, raps, burlesque)

It should also be senatorial theater

11, the basic technique of expressing life in opera is. (virtual - no physical performance)

should be virtual, program, writing

15, Beijing Opera, "four major sousheng" are. (Ma Lianliang, Tan Fuying, Yang Baoshen, Xi Xiaobo)

This question is not right, "before the four major sous-officiers" for: Yu Shuyan, Yan Jupeng, Gao Qingkui, Ma Lianliang, "after the four major sous-officiers" for: Ma Lianliang, Tan Fuying, Yang Baoshen, Xi Xiaobo!

16, known as "China's first female student of Yueju Opera" is (Mao Weitao)

Such a question and such an answer is to be scolded, there has never been such a statement

18, China's theater Plum Blossom Prize Selection is how many years (one year)

A few years ago has been changed to once every two years

4.senior examination drama general knowledge

General knowledge of drama

1. The concept of drama:

Drama is a kind of comprehensive stage art, she shapes the stage art image with the help of literature, music, dance, art and other artistic means to reveal the social contradictions and reflect the reality.

2. Types of drama:

From the expression, drama can be divided into drama, opera, dance, opera, etc.; from the capacity of the work, can be divided into multi-act and one-act plays;

From the era, can be divided into historical and modern drama;

From the theme of the plot, the drama can be divided into tragedy, comedy, and drama; from the performance occasions, can be divided into stage plays, radio plays, television dramas, and so on. From the performance occasions, it is divided into stage plays, radio dramas, TV dramas, etc.

3.

3, the three elements of drama:

First, the dramatic conflict (mainly expressed in the character conflict);

Second, the dramatic language;

Third, the stage instructions.

4. The basic elements of drama:

intense conflict. That is: through the specific stage image, reproducing social life, molding typical characters, revealing social conflicts, so as to stimulate the audience's strong emotional reflection, to achieve the purpose of aesthetic effect and social education. 5. The language of the drama:

Including lines and stage instructions. Drama language has five characteristics: one is action; two is personality expression; three is lyrical; four is a subtext; five is moving mouth, easy to understand.

6, the structure and form of the play:

Stage instructions, the characters of the dialogue and singing, the structure of the form: sub-scene and sub-scene.

7, the three main features of dramatic literature:

First, suitable for stage performance;

Second, there should be a dramatic conflict;

Third, there should be a distinctive and vivid character dialog.

8, focusing on the plot theme categories:

Tragedy refers to the depiction of the main character due to the conflict with the reality of the environment, or due to their own faults and failures, suffering and destruction of a drama. The main character of a tragedy is mostly a positive or heroic character.

The dramatic conflict of the tragedy is manifested in the following way: the ideal of progress pursued by the positive hero or the righteous cause pursued by the positive hero, under the specific historical conditions, for the powerful forces of reality to obstruct and fail to realize, and finally to the hero's failure, suffering, or destruction of the end; or the protagonist is not a heroic figure, or even serious shortcomings, but he wants to realize some kind of hope there are reasonable factors, but because of the evil forces of the fight and failure, suffering, or destruction. The main character is not a hero, or even has serious flaws, but there is still a reasonable element of some hope he wants to realize, but because of the fight by evil forces and failure, suffering or destruction.

Comedy

The main content of comedy is to satirize and ridicule the ugly and backward phenomenon, so as to affirm the beautiful and progressive reality and ideals. The conflict of comedy includes the antagonism and conflict between the advanced and beautiful and the backward and ugly things, as well as some kind of conflict between the ugly and the ugly, and between the advanced and the advanced. The essence of comedy is to satirize and negate the old things and to glorify, praise and affirm the new things. Such as Moliere's The Hypocrites, Gogol's The Chinaman, etc.

Positive drama is also called tragic-comedy because it has both tragic and comedic elements. Due to the characteristics of both tragedy and comedy, positive drama can reflect social life in many ways, expanding and enhancing the breadth and depth of the drama to reflect life. For example, The White-haired Girl, The Spectrum of the Dancers, and The Xi'an Incident.

5. Peking Opera old Dan art exam, including what basic skills

1. Peking Opera Performance Exam:

preliminary examination: (100 points)

(1) Singing: the main test of Peking Opera candidates on the line of common singing, recitation, etc. Mastery of the degree of, such as Xipi, Erhuang singing and citation, set the scene poem.

(2) martial arts, basic skills: the main test candidates waist, leg work, heel, flying feet, spinning and other basic qualities.

(3) handle, stance: the main test candidates on the line of common stance, handle combinations of mastery, such as walking side, trip horse, up the bully, fast gun, down the field flowers.

Review: (50 points)

(1) Peking Opera general knowledge and character analysis: according to the proposition, combined with their own study of the play to write a character analysis, focusing on the examination of the candidates on the characters in the play and the ability to analyze and express the written expression, as well as the understanding of the basic knowledge of Peking Opera and the basic theory.

(2) Simplified score sight-singing: to extract a simplified score of the test questions sight-singing, test the candidates' ability to recognize the score and grasp the melody and rhythm.

The third test: (150 points)

Drama piece (within 10 minutes): the main test candidates in the Peking Opera repertoire performance skills, character grasp, artistic expression and other comprehensive qualities.

2. Beijing Opera instrumental performance majors

preliminary examination: (100 points)

1, strings

① strings of each major to play two self-selected repertoire (Xipi, two reeds or anti-double reeds, two handle can be, not to play the song and solo piece), to play alone in the form of the test, shall not be accompanied by the test.

② Yueqin, Sanxian candidates must perform flute. (You can play the song)

2, drums and boards professional shall be self-selected repertoire performance

① singing performance requires two boards.

②Gongs and drums part of the performance.

3, percussion (gongs, cymbals, small gongs): percussion majors must perform common gongs and drums (organized by the jury on the spot).

Review: (50 points) (written and interview)

Music Theory (30)

Listening (20)

Note: For review, please refer to the book "Fundamentals of Music Theory" written by Li Chongguang.

The third test: (150 points)

1, strings

① self-selected repertoire shall not be repeated with the preliminary examination repertoire, all candidates need to be played in two positions. (Not to play the song and solo pieces)

② designated plate performance, the candidates draw lots to decide.

③ short-sheet sight-reading, sight-reading.

④ Yueqin and Sanxian candidates must perform suona, Sanxian candidates need to perform tangguo.

2, drum plate

① designated plate and suona tune playing.

② with the actors programmed to perform movements (organized by the judges to complete the scene).

③Sight singing.

3, percussion (gongs, cymbals, gongs)

① Designated gongs and drums to be played (organized by the jury on the spot).

② common suona song performance (organized by the judges on site).

Note: Percussion students are required to play two percussion instruments each.

①Sight-singing.

Note

1, Peking Opera performance candidates can bring their own orchestra (major instruments only), accompaniment, costumes, props;

2, Peking Opera instrumental candidates will always bring their own musical instruments for the examination;

3, the candidates will always bring their own black pens or pencils for the written examination, and will not use pencils to answer the questionnaire;

4, the candidates will not be able to The candidates are not allowed to make any marks within the visible range outside the sealing line of the test paper, once found, the test paper will be regarded as invalid;

5, the candidates enter the waiting point in advance to get ready for the test, and those who are 15 minutes late will be disqualified from the test;

6, the candidates should obey the arrangements of the staff at the examination room;

7, during the examination, the candidates are prohibited from consulting the staff on the results of the examination.

8. Those who violate the above provisions are considered to have given up their qualifications for the examination.