What is the meaning of the comic opera "Picking the Horse's Coat"?

The "Picking the Horse's Coat" is one of the traditional repertoire of comedy, belonging to a group of comedy, performed by three actors **** the same performance, the plot is mainly developed from folk jokes. Its entire comic section is skillfully conceived, with distinctive characters. It satirizes the idle, blowing rich man's helpers.

Comic opera is a kind of Chinese folk performing art, the main work is divided into four courses: speaking, learning, teasing and singing. According to the different forms of performance can be divided into comedy, counterpart comedy, group mouth comedy and so on. Comedy is a form of opera that uses jokes, comical questions and answers, and rapping to make the audience laugh. It uses jokes, comical questions and answers, and rapping to make the audience laugh. Mostly used for satire, now also used to sing the praises of new people and new things.

The word "Xiangsheng" (相声), anciently known as "elephant sound", originally referred to the simulation of other people, also known as the next-door comedy. By the further evolution of folk rap in northern China, and incorporated by the imitation of ventriloquism and other forms of musical form, generally believed to have been formed in the Qing Dynasty during the reign of Xianfeng and Tongzhi. It is a form of Chinese opera in which jokes or comical questions and answers are told to make the audience laugh. By the early years of the Republic of China, Xiangsheng gradually developed from a person copying ventriloquism to a single joke, and the name was then changed to Xiangsheng.

Speaking, learning, teasing and singing are the four basic artistic means in the tradition of xiangsheng. "Saying" is to tell jokes and play riddles, tongue twisters, etc.; "learning" is to imitate various birds and animals, hawking, singing and various characters, language, etc.; "teasing" is to catch each other's jokes and laughs; "singing" is to catch each other's jokes and laughs. The "singing" of this work of singing refers to the lyrics of the peace.