What are the classic repertoire of Sichuan Opera?

The repertoire of Sichuan Opera is so extensive that it has been called "Three Thousand Tang Operas, Eight Hundred Song Operas, and Three Kingdoms". Among them, the most rich heritage of the high-cavity part of the artistic characteristics are also the most significant, the traditional repertoire of "five robes" ("Green Robe", "Yellow Robe", "White Robe", "Red Robe", "Green Robe"), "four pillars" ("touch the sky pillar", "Crystal Pillar", "Cannon Branding Pillar", "Pillar", "Pillar").

The four pillars ("Touching the Heavenly Pillar", "Crystal Pillar", "Cannon Branding Pillar", "Five Elements Pillar"), as well as the "Eighteen Books of Jianghu";

There are also the "Four Great Pillars" recognized by Sichuan Opera (Pipa, Golden Seal, Red Plum and Throwing Notebooks), many of which have been lost in other styles of opera. After 1949, a number of excellent Sichuan opera repertoires appeared, such as The Story of the Willow Shade, The Story of the Jade Hairpin, and The Story of the Colorful Mansion.

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Sichuan Opera

Sichuan Opera, commonly known as Chuan Opera, is a traditional opera style that combines the five vocal styles of Gaoqiang (高腔), Kunqu (昆曲), Huqin (i.e., Pihuang) (皮黄), Bouncing Opera (i.e., Bangkok) (梆子), and the folk lantern opera of Sichuan. It is a traditional opera that combines five types of sound and voice.

Sichuan Opera is one of the Han Chinese opera genres, popular in east-central Sichuan, Chongqing and parts of Guizhou and Yunnan. Sichuan opera face painting is an important part of the performing art of Sichuan opera, and it is an artistic treasure created and inherited by successive generations of Sichuan opera artists***.

Sichuan opera consists of five kinds of vocal cadences: kunjiao, gaojiao, huqin, playing theater, and dengtiao. Sichuan Opera is divided into five lines: xiaosheng, sousheng, dan, huafang, and choujiao, each of which has its own system of gongfa procedures, especially the "three small", i.e., clowns, xiaosheng, and xiaodan performances are the most distinctive, and there are a number of outstanding creations in terms of theatrical expression and performance techniques, which can fully reflect the aesthetic characteristics of the Chinese Opera in the sense that the virtual and the real are intertwined, and that the shape of the remains is written in the sense of the imagination. On May 20, 2006, Sichuan opera was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

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