Introduction to Changde Chinese Opera

Changde Han Opera is one of the major local theatrical genres in Hunan, centered in Changde and popular in northwest Hunan, southwest Hubei and far away from Qiandong. Wuling Opera originated in the Ming Dynasty. At the beginning of the 20th century, Wuling Opera flourished, with numerous theater groups and famous artists. There are about 500 traditional repertoires in existence, including 30 high-cavity repertoires and more than 90% of the repertoires. Wuling Opera is mainly sung in a bomb style, with "North and South Anti", "Tide Cavity", "Ugly Cavity", "Straw Shoe Plate", "Zi Mu Tune", "Zi Mu Tune", "Zi Mu Tune" and "Zi Mu Tune". "Zimu Tune" and so on, constituting the unique playing cavity of Wuling Opera. The musical instruments are a combination of three sets of gongs and drums, namely the Tu, Su and Jing, which have their own characteristics. The roles are divided into four major lines: Sheng, Dan, Jing and Wei. The troupe is generally based on the raw line should be the main work of the play, the role of 18 people, the raw line is often 9 people, so there is a "raw half of the side" said the performing arts focus on the "inner eight blocks" "outer eight blocks" of basic skills.

Mainly popular in Changde, Taoyuan, Hanshou, Cili counties and cities, as well as the western Dongting Lake shore and the western part of Xiangxi, and as far as Hubei, Guizhou part of the region. There are three kinds of voices: Gao, Bomb and Kun, and in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the Bomb was the main voice, and the unified stage language combining Zhongzhou rhyme and Changde dialect was adopted.