What are the characteristics of Yu opera?

Yu Opera is a genre with regional characteristics due to the differences in speech sounds in different places. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Yu Opera in Luoyang and other places mostly used the lower five tones, while Yu Opera in Kaifeng and other places mostly used the upper five tones, forming a sharp contrast. In order to distinguish between them, Yu opera artists called the singing of Luoyang and other places the West Tune (also known as Xifu Tune), and called the singing of Kaifeng places the East Tune (also known as Xiangfu Tune).

After the founding of New China, Yu opera experts subdivided the Yu Dong tune into Xiangfu tune, Yu Dong tune and Shahe tune. This division is widely recognized, that is, Kaifeng as the center of the Xiangfu tune; Shangqiu as the center of the East Yu tune; Luoyang as the center of the West Yu tune; popular in the southeast of Henan Shaxi River around the Shahe tune, also known as the "local bang".

The Xiangfu tune, Shahe tune and Yu Dong tune are mostly in upper pentatonic, and Yu Xi tune is mostly in lower pentatonic; nowadays, Xiangfu tune and Shahe tune have been declined, and Yu Dong tune and Yu Xi tune have shown their tenacity and vitality.

Yu Opera is rooted in the Central Plains, the grandeur of Angfeng Baofa, the aesthetic effect of elegance and vulgarity **** appreciation, high-pitched and exciting, simple and fast singing tunes, both ancient and modern, young and old suitable for the style of performance, witty humor, optimistic language interest, not difficult and not astringent, North and South easy to understand the rhyming tone of the Central, simple and unadorned, generous and vast cultural style, reflecting the reality, close to the life of the masses, the pattern of the flesh and blood.

The Chinese opera is the most popular of its kind in China.

The art of Yu opera is both ancient and modern, strong and soft, open and generous, and has the beauty of "neutralization". First of all, the Yu opera singing voice is powerful, majestic, with a degree of modulation, passionate and unrestrained masculinity, with a great emotional strength. Secondly, Yu Opera has a sound voice, clear diction, natural color, flesh and blood, and is good at expressing the inner feelings of the characters.

Moreover, the rhythm of Yu opera is distinctive and strong, the conflict is sharp, the storyline has a beginning and an end, coupled with the tune is witty and cheerful, so that Yu opera is not only suitable for the performance of light-hearted comedy, but also suitable for the performance of the emperor's and generals of the big scene, Yu Xi tune is euphemistic and melodious, the singing voice is very suitable for the tragedy. Yu opera in the key plot are generally arranged to have a big board singing, singing smooth, rhythmic, challenging, generally clear words, easy to be heard by the audience.

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Art Forms

Yu Opera Art Forms Expressed In "The "Four Feats and Five Methods" is a collective term for the basic skills of Yu opera actors. The four skills refer to singing, reading, doing, playing (dance), "singing" that is, the singer with the plot, character, thoughts and emotions of the development of the changes in the vocal skills vividly expressed, singing requires the word clear cavity pure, rhythmically accurate, with the words to the cavity, with the cavity with the feelings;

"Nien The traditional martial arts in the opera performance of the dance embodiment. The five methods refer to the hand, eye, body, method, and step. The "hand" refers to various hand gestures;

The "eye" refers to various eye expressions; the "body" refers to various stances; "Steps" refers to various forms of steps; "law" refers to the rules and regulations of the above performance techniques.

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