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Do the Hakka people have their dialectal theater variety? What is it? Thanks.

Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, Gannan tea picking opera ah! It has a unique flavor, and I loved listening to it when I was a kid.

Artistic Features The stage language of Gannan Tea Casting Opera is the local Hakka dialect. It is full of songs and dances, the atmosphere is relaxed and lively, the language is humorous and witty, and it integrates folk oral literature, folk songs and dances, and lanterns and colors, and it has a strong sense of life. Its repertoire is mostly based on comedy and farce, with few dramas and tragedies. The theme of the lower class people, especially handicraft workers, artisans, daily life as the object of expression, especially the proportion of male and female love plays as a large proportion of love. The music of the singing belongs to the tune, with the tea cavity and the lamp cavity as the main, with the road cavity and miscellaneous tunes, commonly known as "three cavities and one tune". The accompaniment is made of folk musical instruments, mainly hooks (erhu), suona, gongs, drums, cymbals and flutes. Its performing arts characteristics, mainly in the clown, small Dan two lines, there was a "triangle into the class, two small when the family" said.

Small Clowns and Small Clowns The clowns are divided into two parts: one is the "clowning line," known as "positive clowning"; the other is the "clowning line," known as "anti-clowning"; and the other is "clowning line," known as "anti-clowning. The second is the "ugly line", known as the "anti-clown".

Positive clowns: mainly young and middle-aged men of the working people. They are characterized by hard work and simplicity, cheerfulness, optimism and courage. When singing, the actor wears a "hand grasp (Luo hat)", wearing a "three-flower coat", a "white skirt", wearing "lantern pants", and dancing "with his right hand". "The right hand dances the "fan flower" and the left hand throws the "long sleeve tube". They sing and dance in a lively and relaxed manner. The performance is based on the "short step" and "fan flower", a combination of short and tall steps, fast-paced and quite distinctive.

The anti-clowns: mostly smokers and gamblers, rascals and ruffians, and prodigal gentlemen, etc., often expose each other or mock each other with some vivid, subtle, witty, and humorous language and actions. Their performances often simulate some animal images such as: "monkey washing face", "monkey peeing", "dragonfly pointing at water", "lazy cat scratching itch ", "cockerel pecking rice", "painted eyebrows jumping frame", "dog bull swinging tail" "tortoise climbing the sand The "Turtle Crawling on Sand" and so on. The face of the white nose, footwork and fan flower movement and "Zheng Chou" performance is similar.

Small Dan: mainly hard-working, simple and intelligent rural girls and young women. The performance is robust, graceful and simple. Its "fan flower" is richer than that of the clown, and it can play the fan flower with one hand as well as with both hands. Its body movements include: combing and picking the curtain, picking tea with the garden hand, umbrella flower, opening and closing the door, etc. The basic steps include the eight steps, the eight steps, the eight steps and the eight steps. Its basic steps are eight steps, stilt step, tiptoe step, mill step, step, broken step and so on, can be said to be a variety of styles.

Traditional repertoire The traditional repertoire of Gannan Tea Picking Opera has more than 100 repertoires, some of which have been lost, and more than 90 traditional repertoires have been preserved. Such as: "Picking Tea on Jiulong Mountain", "Tang Er Tries His Wife", "Selling Groceries", "Going to Guangdong", "Double Inspection of Mushrooms", "Blind Man Haunts the Shop", "Selling Spending Money", "Fragrant Fire Dragon", "San Playing Iron", "Spring in Wuling", "Fairy of the Lanterns", "Blowing the Drummer to Recruit a Marriage", "Full Sisters Timing Happiness", "Sisters of the Birds", "Mending the Leather Shoes" and "Catching Fish", and so on. and so on. These plays, mostly comedies, reflect the labor process and slice of life of the working masses in Gannan (peasants, handicraftsmen, small traders, etc.), with distinctive local color and rich flavor of life. It does not rely on complete stories and bizarre plots to attract the audience, but on humor, wit, lively performance singing to win, never get tired of it, and it has been performed for a long time.

In recent years, Ganzhou Caicha Song and Dance Drama Troupe has pushed the boundaries of new ideas, creating new plays such as "Mountain Song" and "Long Red Ribbon - Dedicated to the Love of Hakka Mothers" and performing in Beijing, winning the Ministry of Propaganda's "Five Projects" award and the Ministry of Culture's "Cultural and Creative Arts" award, as well as a number of other awards and prizes. Award, the Ministry of Culture "Wenhua Grand Prize" and dozens of other individual awards. The camellia of the past, today open more rosy.

The state attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage, May 20, 2006, Gannan Tea Casting Opera by the State Council approved the inclusion of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.