What are the four types of roles in China's operas?

Divided into life, Dan, clean, end, ugly.

Related introduction:

1. Health:

Life and performance are one of the main types of traditional opera performances in China. Play a male role. The name "Sheng" first appeared in the Southern Opera in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, generally referring to the hero in the play. This line has been used in all previous operas. According to the age and identity of the characters, modern operas are divided into three branches: Lao, Shao and Wu, and their performances have their own characteristics.

2. Dan:

As early as the Song Dynasty, the role of "pretending to be Dan" already existed. After the formation of Southern Opera and Northern Zaju in Song and Yuan Dynasties, Dan's name was still used, and its application was slightly different. There are four branches in the mature period of Kunshan dialect: Zheng Dan, Xiao Dan, Tiedan and Lao Dan.

3. Network:

Commonly known as drawing faces. With the use of various colors and patterns in facial makeup to outline the face as a prominent symbol, it has played a unique personality, temperament and appearance of male roles. Or rough and heroic, or heroic and honest and frank, or sinister and sinister, or reckless and upright.

4. Finally:

Generally, he plays a middle-aged man, but the effect is not as good as the old man in the play. As usual, the traditional Kunqu opera, the first performance of the whole legend, began with the vice chairman reciting lyrics and songs.

5. Ugly:

Comedy characters. Because Facebook uses white powder to outline a small face between the bridge of the nose and the eye socket, it is also called a small face. Southern Opera in Song and Yuan Dynasties still occupies a place in various operas. There are many kinds of characters, some are kind-hearted and humorous; Some people are treacherous and mean.

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Related background:

In traditional Chinese opera performance, there are different occupations, such as fate, Dan, Jing and Ugliness. Every profession has a set of technical rules-procedures. There are branches in the performance, and actors must use professional procedures instead of direct life materials to shape their roles, which is a major feature of traditional opera in image-building methods. The basic content covered by the concept of "transaction" is the same life characteristics of a certain kind of characters.

When an actor grasps the proper procedure of a certain line, it is equivalent to mastering the basic characteristics of this kind of role that this line can contain to some extent. China's paintings pay attention to describing the appearance and charm of the object with a few strokes. Some procedures of his profession have been refined to such an extent that he often captures the characteristics of the character's spiritual temperament in a few moments.

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