Origin of Tibetan Opera

Originally from a beautiful legend: at that time there is no bridge on the Yarlung Tsangpo River, people want to cross the river by the roaring river drowned a lot of people, there is a monk with a grand wish to build a bridge on the river, the fate of God, so that the name of the monk Tangdong Jiebuo met the seven as beautiful as the fairy, can sing and dance the girl, set up the troupe traveled all over the Yarlung Tsangpo River Basin to raise funds for the construction of the bridge.

The bridge was built over several decades, and the Tibetan opera was formed.

To date, the existing white-masked Tibetan opera in the art form, can still be further found and understand the people at that time draped in a variety of animal skins, simulating the animal's roar, performance of a number of simple hunting and other stories for the content of the song and dance drama scene.

Expanded Information:

Tibetan opera costumes are very simple, performances are only a set of from beginning to end. Actors generally do not need to disguise themselves, relying mainly on masks. Before the peaceful liberation of Tibet, Tibetan opera performers often wiped their faces with tsampa or pot smoke when they performed the roles of the grassroots working people.

After the peaceful liberation of Tibet, especially after the establishment of the Tibetan Opera Troupe of the Autonomous Region, many attempts have been made in character modeling, such as moving the patterns on the masks directly to the face to become a kind of face painting; or make-up in comparison with the characters on the mural; sometimes the make-up of the drama is also used. But the Tibetan opera itself has the traditional characteristics of the character masks are still preserved.

Tibetan opera has gradually formed a relatively fixed program in hundreds of years of performance practice.

The performances of Tibetan opera are generally square plays, and a few of them are also stage performances. When performing, the make-up is relatively simple, in addition to wearing masks, the other is the general powder and red fat, no complex face.

The musical instruments are also relatively simple. There is only one drum and one cymbal for percussion, and during the performance, there is one person who introduces the development of the plot to the audience with a quick board. There are very few human dialogues in the play, and the actors concentrate on chanting. Because of the square performance, the actors' singing voice is high and loud, and there are many dragging voices, which shows the rough and powerful character. The backstage generally have help, the form is similar to the Sichuan opera.

Tibetan opera singing a lot, roughly divided into the expression of joy of the long tone, the Tibetan language called "jue ren"; the expression of pain and sorrow of the sad tone, the Tibetan language called "jue lu"; the expression of the narrative of the short tone, the Tibetan language called "party system "

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