What are the four types of role-playing in China's ancient operas?

1. The abbreviation of Shenghang is "Sheng". Life is divided into Xu Sheng (an old student), Hong Sheng, Xiao Sheng, Wu Sheng and Wa Sheng. It is one of the important industries of Peking Opera.

Xu Sheng (old man): All playwrights above middle age have beards. Because of their different personalities and identities, they can be divided into old people who are engaged in security or singing (such as playing emperors, bureaucrats, literati, etc. ), relying on old men (such as fighting military commanders) and declining old men (such as fighting the poor, etc.). ).

Hongsheng: He has a red beard, such as Guan Yu and Zhao Kuangyin.

Xiao Sheng: Ling Zisheng (including general pheasant and prince). ), Sha (official student), Fan Shengsheng (scholar), poor student (poor scholar) and so on.

Wu Sheng: For the role of Wu Sheng in the play, those who wear thick-soled boots are called long-sleeved (chopping board) Wu Sheng, and those who wear thin-soled boots are called short-sleeved (skimming) Wu Sheng.

2. Danxing is called "Dan" for short. Tsing Yi, Hua Dan, wudan, Beijing Opera Blues, Lao Dan, Tie Dan, Gui Dan and other roles. All the stars are women.

Tsing Yi: Mainly singing and playing the role of a good wife and mother.

Hua Dan: She has played many lively women as well as some tragedies and villains.

Flower Shirt: Between Tsing Yi and Hua Dan, there is an ancient costume head (such as the head in an ancient lady painting).

Wu Dan and Beijing Opera Blues: A Woman Good at Martial Arts.

Lao Dan: Singing with this voice is mostly for middle-aged and elderly women.

3. Network cable is called "net" for short, also called picture. Corner cleaning refers to the face-painting role with colorful paintings on the face, which looks unclean, so it means that the clean line is divided into the following roles: bronze hammer face painting and blackhead face painting; The faces painted on the bookshelves, such as the faces of generals, monks, outlaws, Wu Hualian, and slamming paintings, etc. The bronze hammer painted face is called Zheng Jing, the shelf painted face is called Vice Jing, the martial arts painted face is called Wu Jing, and the martial arts painted face is red and clean, which has different characteristics in performance style.

The last line is called the "end". This business is mainly for men over middle age. In fact, the end of the line is devoted to the function of attracting drama, such as the first appearance, which is called "the end" because it has the opposite meaning. Since modern times, because the lines of "final" in many operas have been gradually classified as "fate", "fate, Dan, purity and ugliness" are usually regarded as four basic types of lines.

5. The ugly line is called "ugly" for short. In the play, the ugly line hooks the face, but it outlines the "three-faced face", and the face spectrum is very different from the painted face.

Ugliness can be divided into Wen Chou and Wu Ugliness. Wen Chou is divided into square towel ugliness (literati, Confucian scholars); Wu Chou is good at wrestling, hitting, turning and jumping.