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What are the characteristics of the Spring Festival drama?

Spring Festival (the first day of the first lunar month) is a traditional grand festival in China. Every New Year's Eve, a variety show is held. In the Spring Festival Opera Spring Festival Gala, famous artists from Liyuan gathered. Three generations of old, middle-aged and young people performed on the same stage, and the South Opera and the North Opera took turns to appear. Classical and modern are organically integrated, and the classic aria is wonderful. At the party, more than a dozen local operas such as Beijing Opera, Yue Opera, Huangmei Opera, Henan Opera, Shaanxi Opera, Sichuan Opera, Pingju Opera, Shanghai Opera, Errentai, Hebei Bangzi, Gaojia Opera, etc. shined brilliantly, and creative programs such as sketches and crosstalk also had their own characteristics.

Traditional Chinese opera is one of the traditional arts of the Han nationality. It has all kinds of interesting dramas, singing and dancing in the form of performance and rap, which is literary and martial. This is unique in the history of world drama. Its main features are as follows: Take Peking Opera, the representative work of Han Chinese classical opera art, as an example. First, men dress up as women and women dress up as men; The second is to divide life, Dan, essence and ugliness into four major industries; Third, there is an exaggerated makeup art-Facebook; Fourthly, "costume" (that is, costumes and props of China traditional operas) basically have fixed styles and specifications; The fifth is to use "procedures" to implement. The national operas of the Han nationality, from Daiyou in the pre-Qin Dynasty, Baihong in the Han Dynasty, Joining the Army in the Tang Dynasty, Zaju in the Song Dynasty, Nanju in the Southern Song Dynasty and Zaju in the Yuan Dynasty to the unprecedented prosperity of local operas in the Qing Dynasty and the formation of Peking Opera, have always been rooted among the Han people and enjoyed by the people. Going to the theatre is still one of the main recreational activities of the Han nationality. Generally speaking, northerners like watching Peking Opera, while southerners like Yue Opera. All kinds of local operas have their own audiences. People who are far away from home even regard listening to and watching national operas as a sign of missing their hometown.

Three Characteristics of Chinese New Year Pictures

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China Opera is a national art with strong comprehensiveness, which is not only reflected in its mastery and originality of various art categories (such as dance and acrobatics), but also in its exquisite and profound performing arts. Various artistic factors are closely combined with the performing arts, and all the functions of opera are realized through the performance of actors. Among them, the organic composition of singing, reading, doing and beating on the actors is the most concentrated and prominent embodiment of the comprehensiveness of China traditional operas.

(2) Virtual

Fiction is the basic way for drama to reflect life. It refers to an actor's performance, which compares the real environment or objects in a deformed way to express life. The virtuality of China's traditional operas is first manifested in the flexibility in dealing with the time and space of the stage. The so-called "three or five people walk the world, six or seven people have millions of soldiers", "a thousand years' career is in an instant, and the abbot's land is Wan Li" and "a few years' blink of an eye makes an inch of incense last forever", which breaks through the limitations of the "three unifications" and "the fourth wall" of western operas. Secondly, in a specific stage atmosphere scheduling and actors' simulation of some life actions, such as windy and rainy, riding gait, threading a needle and so on, more concentrated and more vividly embodies the virtual characteristics of traditional Chinese opera. Opera mask is also a virtual way.

(3) Procedural

Procedure is the expression of drama reflecting life. It refers to the standardization, dance performance and reuse of life movements. Programs come directly or indirectly from life, but they are formed by refining, summarizing and beautifying life according to certain norms. There are fixed formats for closing the door, pushing the window, getting on the horse, getting on the boat and going upstairs. In the traditional opera performance in China. In addition, Chinese opera has certain procedures in script form, role, music singing, makeup, clothing and so on.