Ranking of China's Top Ten Opera Genres

The top ten Chinese opera genres are Peking Opera, Yueju Opera, Huangmei Opera, Pingju Opera, Yu Opera, Kunqu Opera, Qu Opera, Yueju Opera, Lv Opera, and Shanghai Opera.?

1, Peking Opera

Peking Opera, once known as Ping Opera, one of China's five major operatic genres, the cadence of Xipi, Erhuang-based, accompanied by huqin and gongs and drums and so on, is regarded as China's national treasure, the Chinese opera, the three Dingjia "top".

2. Yueju Opera

Yueju Opera, also known as "the most widely circulated local opera", originated in Shengzhou, Zhejiang Province, and Shanghai, flourished in the whole country, and circulated in the world, and in the course of its development, it drew on the great success of Kunqu Opera, Chinese opera, Shaoju Opera and other specialties, and underwent a historical evolution from men's Yueju Opera to women's Yueju Opera. It has undergone a historical evolution from men's Yueju opera to women's Yueju opera, and is one of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritages on the list.

3. Huangmei Opera

Huangmei Opera, formerly known as Huangmei Tune or Caicha Opera, is one of the five major Chinese opera genres. It is also one of the four outstanding opera genres of Anhui alongside Anhui opera, Lu opera and Sizhou opera.?

4, evaluation drama

Evaluation of drama, is circulated in northern China, a type of opera, is one of the majority of the people of one of the types of theater, ranked among China's top five types of opera. It was once considered by some to be the second largest opera genre in China.?

5, Yu Opera

Yu Opera is China's largest local theater, ranking first in the country's local opera. Yu opera was formerly known as "Henan opera", "Henan high tone", due to the early actors to sing with the voice, start and close the cavity with falsetto turn the high end of the voice with "Acura", and had called the "Henan Acura". The song was once called "Henan Acura".

6, Kunqu

Kunqu, formerly known as "Kunshan cavity", "Kun cavity", is China's ancient opera voice, the type of opera, since the Qing Dynasty known as "Kunqu", now also known as "Kunqu". Since the Qing Dynasty, it has been called "Kunqu", and now it is also called "Kun Opera". Kunqu is one of the oldest types of traditional Chinese opera, and is also one of the treasures of traditional Chinese culture and art, especially in the art of opera, which is known as an "orchid" in the garden of a hundred flowers.

7. Qu Opera

Qu Opera is one of the Han Chinese opera genres mainly circulating in Henan Province, and was also known as Gao Tai Qu or Qu Zi Opera in the old days. It is popular in the province of Henan and the neighboring areas around it, and was developed on the basis of the local popular performing forms of Quju Drums (Luoyang Quju and Nanyang Quju) and stilt walking.

8. Yuezhong

Yuezhong is one of the Han Chinese opera styles in Henan Province. It is mainly popular in all of Henan, northwestern Hubei, southeastern Shaanxi, northwestern Anhui, southeastern Shanxi, south-central Hebei, Beijing and other provinces and cities. In the early days, the main instrument of Yueju was the elephant-nosed four-stringed instrument, but later it was usually the drop-hu.

9, Lv Opera

Lv Opera, also known as masquerade yangqin, qin opera, the national intangible cultural heritage, one of the eight major Chinese opera genres, Shandong's most representative of the local theater, popular in most of Shandong and Jiangsu, Anhui, part of the northeastern provinces, originated in the Yellow River delta north of Shandong, evolved from Shandong qinshu.

10, Shanghai Opera

Shanghai Opera is a Han Chinese local opera. It is popular in Shanghai and Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas. It originated from the folk song Dongxiangtong in Pudong, Shanghai, and was formed in the late Qing Dynasty, during which it was influenced by Suzhou Tangling. Later, it adopted the performance form of civilized opera, and developed into a small stage drama "Shenqu".