Ten Famous Songs of Shaanxi Opera

The top ten famous songs of Shaanxi Opera are Three Drops of Blood, Three Mothers' Godsons, Three Trials, Su Sanqi's Deduction, Fifteen Passes, Foal Horse, Saving Mother by Breaking Mountain, Visiting Guishan Mountain, My Beauty Case, and Yuanmen Chopping Son.

Shaanxi Opera, also known as Bangzi Opera, is one of the national intangible cultural heritages of traditional operas in northwest China. Shaanxi and Gansu belonged to Qin in ancient times, so they were called "Qin Opera". Because early Qin opera performances were often accompanied by jujube bangzi, it was also called "Bangzi Opera".

After the formation of Shaanxi Opera, it spread all over the country. Because of its mature and complete performance system, it has had different degrees of influence on local operas, and directly affected Bangzi Opera to become the ancestor of Bangzi Opera. The performance skills of Shaanxi Opera are simple, rough, bold and exaggerated, full of life flavor and rich in skills.

The Historical Origin and Manifestations of Qinqiang Qupai

1, historical origin

Qinqiang Qupai has a long history. Due to the limited data, it is impossible to verify. Among a large number of known and used Qinqiang Qupai, some evolved from the Tang and Song Dynasties. Have a plenty of absorption of north and south music, namely Kunqu opera and Ming and Qing ditties; Others choose ancient music and folk songs, and borrow songs from other brother dramas.

2. Forms of expression

No matter string qupai, suona qupai or other kinds of qupai, there are different ways to rise and fall. The ups and downs of each piece of music are borne by the drum. Song has a bottom pestle, commonly known as "head"; The song is called "closing your head". When you need to pick up the aria or percussion to change other tracks during Qupai performance, you can turn it off in time. Drum means "being pestle".