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Wood carving mask is what kind of opera

Wood carving mask is Anshun Di Opera.

Anshun Di Opera is a kind of traditional folk theater unique to the Tumbao people of Anshun City, Guizhou Province, wearing a wood-carved mask on the head, and is also one of the national intangible cultural heritages. This kind of wood-carved mask is commonly known as face, and the production process is complicated and fine, which is an important prop of Anshun Di Opera, quilt sheet theater is a kind of one-person puppet theater.

Anshun ground opera popular in Anshun, Pingba, Huishui and other cities and counties of the opera. It is rumored that Di Opera originated from the armies that entered Guizhou during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Each local opera troupe specializes in singing a whole opera, such as "Yang Family General" and "Yue Chuan". The music of Anshun opera is rough and the accompaniment is simple, and it is largely adapted to perform in the wilderness. The actors wear face shells, and their faces are covered with a green veil. The weapons they hold are especially short, but the amplitude of their movements is very large.

Inheritance of the status quo

Inheritance of the main body of the biggest dilemma facing the cultural heritage of the opera, in the market under the impact of the tide of the cultural heritage of the opera main body is faced with the dilemma of the loss of the loss, alienation and the complete demise of the main body of the inheritance of the final demise will mean that the cultural cause of the opera towards the end. After the reform and opening up, under the stimulation of increasingly rich material conditions, people's values are becoming more and more diversified, and the principle of money first prompts people to go out of the mountain villages in pursuit of material interests, and the prevalence of the trend of part-time work diverts a large part of the young labor force.

This group of people earlier contact with the outside world, by the outside world influence, most of them for economic purposes, unwilling to follow the old artists to learn the opera performance, the opera culture is gradually losing its market and carrier, and as the main body of the inheritance of the family members and young people no longer bear the original inheritance function, the main body of the inheritance of the change and disappearance of the final demise of the cultural matters that it carries. The inheritors of the local opera culture generally have a low level of education, and uneven distribution of age groups, the team is aging seriously, facing the embarrassment of a lack of successors.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Anshun Geju