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What's the difference between Cantonese opera and Beijing opera?

The costumes in the early stage of Cantonese opera mainly imitated the costume style of the Ming Dynasty and were improved into costumes. During the Qing Dynasty, Peking Opera became more and more popular, communication increased gradually, and the clothing system was gradually influenced by Peking Opera. At that time, the role of court officials was added to the new play, and some costumes also had the style of official uniforms in the Qing Dynasty. Traditional Peking Opera costumes can be divided into: python, lying, pleating, squatting and clothing. However, traditional Cantonese opera costumes can be divided into: python clothes, lying clothes, pleated clothes, open clothes, official clothes, clothes and clothes. The characteristics of headdress Cantonese opera hair accessories are mainly pieces, hats, buns and ornaments, as well as systematic pieces and hats.

And plug ornaments. Different kinds of headwear, bun, braid and contract also have their own characteristics, usage, production methods, wearing and maintenance equipment.

Beijing opera clothes

Peking Opera is one of China's national quintessence, and its costumes also have strong China characteristics. Beijing opera costumes are divided into four categories: coats, second clothes, third clothes and cloud shoulders.

The names of the clothes in the coat include: python, improved python, flag python, official clothes, improved official clothes, sergeant clothes, judge clothes, open clothes, crane clothes, robes, robes, pleats, palace clothes, ancient costumes, skirts, pants, jackets and other clothing accessories.

The clothing names of Eryi are: lean meat, improved lean meat, arrow clothing (including dragon arrow clothing, flower arrow clothing, plain satin arrow clothing and cloth arrow clothing), mandarin jacket (including dragon coat, yellow satin coat and shovel coat), hug clothing (including flower, vegetable, velvet and cloth) and squat.

Sanyi's business, commonly known as boot box, includes the names and functions of items, mostly boots, shoes and underwear worn by characters. The names of items in business can be divided into two categories, one is film, commonly known as soft and hard.

Cloud shoulders are often decorated with four moire patterns, mostly made of colorful brocade. Leaves are like clouds reflecting the sun after rain, and like rainbows scattered in the clear sky, so they are called cloud shoulders. Yun Jian is a unique costume style in the costume culture of Han nationality, which is rich in decorative patterns, artistic symbolic language, figurative meaning of numbers and profound cultural connotations. Yun Jian is also the crystallization of the Han nationality's absorption of foreign costume culture, which is integrated and sublimated into its own national costume; Yunjian is also a model of ingenious design of plane and three-dimensional design in the history of China clothing. Cloud shoulders, also called shawls, are mostly made of satin and brocade. Most cloud shoulders are composed of four kinds of moire patterns, which are called four-in-one wishful pattern, willow pattern and lotus pattern. There are auspicious propositions such as rich peony, long life, and more than one year. It was very popular in Ming and Qing dynasties, and it was mostly used in wedding banquets and other occasions.