China traditional opera knowledge

China opera is mainly composed of folk songs and dances, rap and burlesque. It originated from primitive song and dance and is a comprehensive stage art form with a long history.

There are many kinds of plays in China. According to incomplete statistics, there are about 360 kinds of operas and tens of thousands of traditional plays in China. Other famous operas include: Kunqu Opera, Hangzi Opera, Cantonese Opera, Huai Opera, Sichuan Opera, Qin Opera, Shanghai Opera, Shaanxi Opera, Han Opera, Hebei Bangzi, Henan Cantonese Opera, Henan Hangzi Opera, xiang opera Opera and Hunan Opera.

Four classical operas

The creation background of "The Palace of Eternal Life" and "Peach Blossom Fan" is roughly the same. Both plays are true stories, and there are many similarities in plot arrangement. They are all launched in a grand background, depicting social life events in a very broad way, with only one central theme, that is, "love and politics".

Wang Shifu's "The West Chamber" has realized the lovers' dream of love, which has high literary value and is regarded as a model of ancient drama. Tang Xianzu used Peony Pavilion to call for a new era of human liberation. Women who bravely and independently pursue human freedom have never appeared as women in drama or even literature before.

Four classical operas, also known as "Four Classical Dramas". Namely Wang Shifu's The West Chamber; The Peony Pavilion by Tang Xianzu; Kong's Peach Blossom Fan; Hongsheng eternal life hall

The Palace of Eternal Life and Peach Blossom Fan are two peaks in the development of drama in Qing Dynasty, and they also have a high position in the history of drama in China. Together with The Romance of the West Chamber and The Peony Pavilion, it is called the four classical dramas in China, and has always been loved by the broad masses of the people.

Peach blossom fans rise and fall.

Peach Blossom Fan is the love object with Li. Kong Renshang used it to record the ups and downs of the hero and heroine, and also used it to connect various character activities.

The West Chamber realizes the dream of lovers' love?

Wang Shifu's date of birth and death and life story can't be verified. But he left us an immortal masterpiece The West Chamber. The Story of the West Chamber is from the novel Yingying Biography by Yuan Zhen (779-83 1) in the Tang Dynasty. The novel tells the story of a scholar who fell in love with Yingying, Cui's daughter who lives in Pujiu Temple, and then went to Beijing for a trial marriage and abandoned it.

Peony Pavilion is the representative work of Tang Xianzu. The story goes like this: Du Liniang, the daughter of Du Bao, a magistrate in Nan 'an, Fujian, went to play in the garden and had a tryst with scholar Liu Mengmei in her dream. When she woke up, she was lovesick and died. Three years later, Liu Mengmei went to Lin 'an to take the exam. After passing through Du Liniang's cemetery, she picked up her self-portrait, met Du Liniang's ghost, dug the grave, opened the coffin, revived Du Liniang, and they got married. However, Du Bao did not recognize their union, and it was not until Liu Mengmei won the first prize and the emperor came to power that things were satisfactorily resolved.

The Palace of Eternal Life is based on the love story between Emperor Ming of Tang Dynasty and Yang Guifei. From the moment there was a little truth between the emperor and the princess, Yang Yuhuan defended her stable relationship with Li Longji. She is jealous, curious, noisy and invites all kinds of pets. As the son of heaven, Emperor Ming of Tang Dynasty "relaxed the imperial court and occupied the love field". The abandonment of Chaogang aroused the resistance of An Lushan, an aspirant, and the resentment of the army and the people.

Under the pressure of sergeant mutiny, Emperor Tang Ming sentenced Yang Yuhuan to death in Maweipo. However, the change of Ma Wei is not the end of the play. Since then, Hong Sheng has pinned his emotional realization on the ideal heaven. The hero and heroine fly to fairyland, and in their regrets and dreams, love is finally sublimated and purified.