What are the Beijing Opera businesses?

Beijing opera, also known as role, can be divided into five major categories: life, Dan, Jing, end, ugliness and * * *. But at the end of the integration of ugliness, it became four major businesses.

1. The last line

At the beginning of the formation of Beijing Opera, there was indeed the last line on the stage, and it was played by actors who specialized in the last line, not by actors who were born and performed. Zhang Shengkui, one of the thirteen wonders of Beijing-Kunming, is an outstanding representative of the last line, and the last line is the mo Cheng of a handful of snow he played in that portrait. Because the end is very similar to the old students of the declining school, and later some actors who are good at playing the old students also play the end drama, and some actors who play the end drama also play the life drama, the boundary between the two was broken, and finally they merged into the life drama.

2. Ugly behavior

is called "ugly" for short. In the play, the ugly lines hook the face, but the "three-flowered face" is sketched, and the face spectrum is very different from the painted face.

There are two types of ugliness: Wen Chou and Wu Chou. Wen Chou is divided into square towel ugliness (literati, Confucian scholars); Wu Chou specializes in martial arts roles such as falling, hitting, turning and jumping. According to the animal sign, ugliness belongs to cattle, cattle are stupid, and ugliness is synonymous with stupidity. However, the ugliness of martial arts on the stage is also called jumping with one's mouth, but he can say and jump, and perform a lively and clever role, which is completely different from the ugliness and stupidity of cattle. Life can be divided into Xu Sheng (old student, Hu Zisheng), Hong Sheng, Xiao Sheng, Wu Sheng and Doll Sheng. It is one of the important trades in Beijing Opera.

4. Danxing

is called "Dan" for short. Divided into Tsing Yi, Hua Dan, Wu Dan, Lao Dan, Tie Dan, Gui Dan and other roles. All the stars are women.

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

Hua Dan: She performs many lively women, but also some tragedies and villains.

Flower shirt: It is between Tsing Yi and Hua Dan. It is worn with ancient costume heads (such as those in ancient ladies' paintings) and flowerpot shoes.

Wu Dan and peking opera blues: women who are good at playing martial arts.

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

5. The net line

is called "net" for short, also called the painted face. The clear angle refers to the painted character whose face is painted with colorful pictures. It doesn't look clean, so it means "clean". The net line is divided into the following roles: copper hammer flower face and black head flower face, which are mainly singing.

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Classification of Beijing Opera aria:

Beijing Opera is mainly divided into two categories: Xipi and Erhuang.

Among the common plays, Shiro Visiting Mother, Yang Yanhui's song "Before you speak, people can't help crying" is the old man's "Xipi Guide Board", and Princess Tiejing's song "Couples Sitting in the Palace Courtyard" is the "Xipi Guide Board" in Tsing Yi. Xipi guide plate is commonly used to start a large number of aria.

In this play, Yang Zongbao sang "Yang Zongbao is about to give orders immediately", which is the Xipi guide plate of Xiaosheng, while Bao Zheng sang "Bao Longtu meditates in Kaifeng House" in "Tan Mei Case", which is the Xipi guide plate of Laodan, and China sang "Dragon Pony and Phoenix Wandering into the Imperial City" in "Dragon Robe".

Although there are many kinds of Xipi guide plates, they are basically similar to the door. As long as you are familiar with the door, you will know what kind of plate the actor wants to sing. If there are too many guides in the same play, the pianist will use different flowers to accompany him through the door to avoid hearing fatigue.

The singing method of the blind guide is basically the same as that of the general guide, but it is sung behind the scenes when the actors are not on stage. For example, Liu Xie (Emperor Xian of Han Dynasty) in Xiao Yao Jin sang "Father and son are crying in the palace" for a long time in the curtain, which is the blind guide, and the characters only appear after singing. But this is the Erhuang guide plate, not the Xipi guide plate.

reference I source: Baidu Encyclopedia-Peking Opera.