What does it mean to be a folded play?

Folding play - as the name suggests, it is for this play, it is a fold of this play, or a play. To perform the whole play, both time-consuming and laborious, so later slowly do not perform the whole play, only to perform a relatively complete and focused on highlighting, but also to show the level of the actors a few folded play. Passed down to the present day to the folds of the opera, many long time and not decline. The reason: from the content, a good folding opera conflict sharp and intense, vivid and vivid characters, storyline is relatively complete, and its ideological point of view has a strong people's nature; and in the structural arrangement, often original, not fall into the cliché, at once can grasp the audience. From a formal point of view, the Peking Opera folded opera centrally and prominently embodies the artistic characteristics of Peking Opera, i.e., the different lines of Sheng, Dan, Jingsheng, and Chou, and the basic four skills of singing, reciting, acting, and fighting. Of course, most of the operas are not a comprehensive embodiment of these artistic characteristics, but more often focus on a particular aspect of the Peking Opera line or the four skills, and thus become a masterpiece of this aspect. Thirdly, in connection with the formal embodiment of the artistic characteristics of Peking Opera, some of the folds of the opera have been carefully created by masters of Peking Opera, endowed with distinctive personal characteristics in the art of performance, and have gradually become the representative repertoire of Peking Opera schools of art. This should be said to be the most important feature of Peking Opera, which is also the most important reason why it has been performed for a long time and has been passed down.

In a sense, the history of Chinese Peking Opera is a history of the conception, formation and development of various genres; Peking Opera masters, each in their own representative repertoire, ingenuity, excellence, so that the entire Peking Opera stage blossomed in splendor. And Peking Opera as one of the fine arts, but also to be inherited and developed from generation to generation, a long time to perform and not decline.