Introducing the culture of opera 200 sub

The word "opera" was first seen in the "water cloud village manuscript" in the "lyricist WuYuZhang biography", refers to the southern song dynasty popular in the folk of yongjia opera, is the development of the goblet of the southern opera opera. Yanshi City, Henan Province, unearthed in a Song Dynasty tomb, excavated "Song opera actor Ding Du Sai statue bricks", is China's earliest existing record of the image of opera performance activities of cultural relics. Afterwards, the name of "opera" changed repeatedly, and the term "opera" was used to refer to "traditional Chinese drama" until Wang Guowei's "Song and Yuan Opera Examination" came out, which was published in the name of "opera". This book, named "opera", for the first time pushed traditional Chinese drama into the forest of modern scholarship, and "opera" became the special name of "traditional Chinese drama".

Wang Guowei defined opera as "a combination of song and dance to perform stories", and also pointed out that the body of speech is an important feature that makes opera different from other types of literature. From this definition, it seems that opera must have the basic elements of actors, theater, poetry, dance, music, voice and storytelling. Taiwan scholar Tseng Yongyi regarded Wang Guowei's definition of opera as the conditions that must be present in a small opera, which is a more primitive performing art. And compared to the small play of the big play has a higher level of artistic expression, has been a comprehensive literature and art, which is defined as: "Classical Chinese drama is in the moving of the story, poetry as the essence, closely combined with the music and dance, plus acrobatics, and the narrative of the rap literature, through the haiku make-up, the use of the spokesman for the body, in the narrow theater on the performance of the comprehensive literature and art. "