What is the meaning of Xiaosheng, Laosheng, Laodan, Xiaodan, Clown?

Small Sheng: refers to acting in the drama Plume Sheng (generals with pheasant plumes, princes and lords, etc.), yarn hat Sheng (official Sheng), fan Sheng (scholar), poor Sheng (poor scholar) and so on.

Lao Sheng: that is, more than middle-aged playwrights, mouth wearing a beard (beard), due to the different character and identity, can be divided into An Gong Lao Sheng or called singing Lao Sheng (such as playing the emperor, bureaucrats, literati, etc.).

Dan line referred to as "Dan". Divided into green, flower Dan, Wu Dan, knife horse Dan, old Dan, stick Dan, girl Dan and other roles. Dan role for all women.

Qingyi: mainly singing, playing the role of a good wife and mother.

Flower Dan: also called Flower Shirt, characterized by flowery costumes, mainly plays the roles of queens, princesses, noble ladies, female generals, hawkers, village girls, and so on.

Wudan, knife and horse Dan: women who are good at performing martial arts.

Laodan: sung with this noise, mostly middle-aged and old women.

Chou line short for "ugly". Chou line in the play hook face, and hook painting "three flower face", the face and flower face is very different.

The clown line is also divided into Wen Chou and Wu Chou. In the Wen Chou, it is divided into the square-toweled Chou (literati, Confucian); and the Wu Chou, who specializes in martial arts roles such as falling, hitting, flipping, and pouncing. According to the animal phases, the ugly belongs to the ox, the ox is stupid, ugly is synonymous with stupid. But the stage of the martial arts clowns also called the opening jump, and can talk and jump, perform lively and clever, good at performing martial arts martial arts role, which is completely different from the ugly and stupid nature of the cow.