The main features of the opera

The main feature of the opera is that it is very easy to understand because of the colloquialization of the recitation and the lyrics.

Beijing opera is divided into West Road and East Road. The West Road Opera evolved from the West Road Lotus Flower Drops and Ten No Idlenesses, and was formed around 1900, and was called West Road Bun Bun. It was also known as "Beijing Bopping" because it was mainly performed in Beijing and its surrounding areas. 1958, when the traditional "West Road Bopping" was excavated in the China Appraisal Theater, it was officially named West Road Appraisal Opera.

East Road Opera was formed around 1910 by Cheng Zhaocai and others on the basis of "Counterpart Lotus Flower Tune", absorbing the repertoire of Northeast China's Two-Man Opera, as well as the music and performance methods of Hebei Clappers, Peking Opera, and Shadow Tune, etc. The opera came to Beijing at the end of the 1920s, and was called "Fengtian Luzi" at that time. "After 1935, the name of the opera was officially used.

The singing style of Pingju Opera is a board style, with pointed boards, hitching tones, big-an boards, small-an boards, three hammers, inverted boards, palletizing boards, running boards, and antiphonal tones, which is a better solution to the problem of boys' singing in the local operas. Its music is characterized by lyricism, fluency, naturalness and rich local flavor. Accompanying musical instruments are banhu, erhu, sanxian, plate, drum, gong, flute, suona and so on.

The language of Evaluation Opera is easy to understand, the line is complete, there are Qingyi, Huadan, Caidan, Xiaosheng, clowns, the old man, flower face, etc., expressive, not only to show the ancient life, especially good at showing the modern life.