What is specific about Peking Opera and Sichuan Opera? How to come to an understanding of it?

Here are the two types of opera introduced separately, you analyze it by yourself, I hope it can meet your requirements.

Origin of Peking Opera

Peking Opera is the national treasure of China and one of the most important types of opera popular in the country. It has a history of more than 200 years. In the fifty-fifth year of the Qianlong Emperor (1790), the original performance in the south of the three Qing, four happy, Chuntai, and the spring of the four Hui tune class, one after another into the Beijing performances, with the Han tune artists from Hubei, mutual influence, and accepted the Kunqu, Qinqiao, part of the repertoire, tunes and performance methods, and absorbed some of the folk tunes, and gradually fused, evolved, and developed into the Peking Opera. Its music basically belongs to the board cavity, singing to the Hui tune of Erhuang and Han tune of the watermelon based, so the old time called "Pihuang". There are also the "anti-Xi Pi" (i.e., "anti-Xi Pi") and "anti-Erhuang" (i.e., "anti-Erhuang") tunes, as well as the singing styles of Nan Bangzi, Si Pingtong, Blow Cavity, High Plucked Tune, Nan Gong, etc. The accompanying instruments are mainly the Jinghu. The accompanying instruments are mainly Jinghu, supplemented by erhu, yueqin and sanxian. Some songs and pieces are accompanied by suona and flute. Percussion instruments include single-skin drums, sandalwood boards, large gongs, small gongs, cymbals, drums, and stars. Peking Opera performances emphasize singing, reciting, acting and playing, and often use virtual movements, emphasizing the blending of scenes and emotions. Since its creation, Peking Opera has been known by many names, such as "Chaos Bomb", "Reed Tune", "Peking Reed", "Peking Two Reed ", "Erchuan (Erhuang)", "Dazhuang", "Pingju" (Beijing used to be called Beiping), Peking Opera, etc. There are thousands of traditional Peking Opera repertoires. There are thousands of traditional repertoires of Peking Opera, and the popular ones include "The Generals' Harmony", "The Meeting of the Groups", "The Empty City Plan", "The Drunkenness of the Concubine", "The Three Forks of the Road", "Picking Up the Jade Bracelet", and "Playing Fishing and Killing", among others.

The Formation of Peking Opera

Peking Opera has been in existence for about 150 years. In 1790, the famous Anhui troupe from Jiangnan, the Sanqing Troupe, came to Beijing to celebrate the 80th birthday of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty. Huiban refers to the theater troupe that performed Huizhou tunes or Huizhou operas, which were very popular in the south of the country in the early years of the Qing Dynasty. Since then, many Huiban have followed, the most famous of which are Sanqing, Sisi, Chuntai, and Hechun, commonly known as the "Four Huiban". Each of them had its own characteristics in performance. Sanqing was good at performing the whole opera; Sixi was good at Kunqu Opera; Chuntai had more youth-oriented child actors; and Chun was outstanding in martial arts.

After 1828, a group of Han opera performers entered Beijing one after another. Han Opera, also known as Chu Tune, now known as Han Opera, is a local opera popularized in Hubei Province, with two main vocal styles: Xipi and Erhuang, with special emphasis on Xipi. Since Hui and Han operas are related to each other in terms of voice and performance, most of the actors of Han Opera participated in the Hui class after entering Beijing, and some of them became the main actors of the Hui class, such as Yu Sansheng. Anhui tune is mostly Erhuang tone, high pizzicato, blowing cavity, Siping tone, etc., and occasionally also have Xipi tone, Kun cavity and Eagle cavity; while Han actors are acting Xipi tone and Erhuang tone. The two classes of Hui and Han cooperated, and the two tunes merged, and after a period of mutual integration and absorption, coupled with the Beijingization of the sound, and from the Kunqu opera, Eagle, and Qinqiang constantly drawing on the nutrients, and finally formed a new type of opera - Peking Opera. The first generation of Peking Opera performers matured and were recognized around 1840.

Peking Opera has had many names since its inception. The counts include: chaotong, rengtong, jingxun, jing erxun, pi xun (skin yellow), erxun (two yellow), dazhou, pingxun, old opera, guo xun, jingxun, jingju, and so on.

Origin and Development of Sichuan Opera

Sichuan Opera, a major feature of Sichuan culture. Chengdu, is the hometown of theater. As early as in the Tang Dynasty, there was the saying that "Sichuan opera crowns the world". In the Qing Dynasty, Qianlong in the local lantern theater on the basis of absorption and integration of Su, Gan, Anhui, Eu, Shaanxi, Gan around the sound of the formation of high voice, Huqin, Kun cavity, lantern play, play five kinds of sound sung in the Sichuan language "Sichuan opera". Among them, Sichuan Opera's Gaoqiang has a rich repertoire of beautiful and touching singing voices with the most local characteristics, and is the main form of singing in Sichuan Opera. Sichuan Opera is sung in the form of leading, chorus, chorus, accompaniment, repetition, etc., which is meaningful and fascinating. The language of Sichuan Opera is lively and humorous, full of distinctive local colors, rich flavor of life and a wide range of people. There are hundreds of plays commonly performed on the stage, with complete singing, acting, reading and playing, humor and instrumental music, "face-changing", "fire-breathing" and "water-sleeve", which are unique, plus the written and programmed movements which are meaningful and attractive. In addition, the programmed movements of the play contain an endless variety of flavors ....... Sichuan Opera has become a favorite of the world and has traveled far and wide to spread all over the world. The famous opera "The Legend of the White Snake. Jinshan Temple" has been widely circulated both at home and abroad. Sichuan Opera is popular in the province of Sichuan and parts of Yunnan and Guizhou. Originally, the inflow of foreign provinces Kun cavity, high cavity, huqin cavity (Pihuang), playing opera and Sichuan folk lamp play five kinds of vocal art, are separate performances around Sichuan, the Qing Dynasty Qianlong period (1736-1795), because of the five kinds of vocal art often performed on the same stage, gradually formed over time **** the same style, the end of the Qing Dynasty collectively referred to as the "Sichuan Opera In the late Qing Dynasty, they were collectively called "Chuan Opera", which was later renamed "Chuan Opera".

High, Kun, Hu, bullet lights in the process of fusion into a unified Sichuan opera, each has its own situation. The Kun Opera, which originated in Jiangsu Province, flowed into Sichuan and evolved into the "Sichuan Kun" with local characteristics. Gaoqiang is a major part of Sichuan opera. Originated from Jiangxi Yiyang cavity, the late Ming and early Qing dynasties have flowed into Sichuan, Chu, Shu, known as the "Qing opera". On the basis of maintaining the tradition of "singing with one person and all the people, and there are also tight boards and slow boards", a large number of Sichuan rice-planting songs, trumpets, sacred songs, and even ringing in the camp to draw

nurture, enrichment and development of the "gang, playing, singing" close combination of features to form the local characteristics of Sichuan Gaoqiang. The Sichuan High Cavity is characterized by local characteristics. The huqin cavity, also known as "silk string", originated from the Hui and Han tunes, and also absorbed the components of "Hanzhong Erhuang" from Shaanxi, and was successively combined with the Sichuan dialect and the Sichuan opera gongs and drums through the "Doing and Singing Huqin" and stage performances. Combined with the Sichuan dialect and the Sichuan opera gongs and drums, it has made many changes in the cadence and music, forming a Huqin accent with Sichuan flavor. Bomb opera, or messy bomb, also known as "Gai Pan Zi", "Sichuan Bang Opera", because of the use of the Gai Pan Huqin as the main instrument and the clappers to beat the rhythm and named, its origin from the Shaanxi Qinqiang with the state Bang Opera. After the Qinqiang into Sichuan, and the northern Sichuan lamp play, high cavity long-term **** place, each other, and the use of Sichuan language, it gradually formed a unique style of Sichuan Bangkok - play opera.

The above four kinds of foreign vocal art in Sichuan in the process of popularization, successively with the Sichuan speech and the masses to appreciate the combination of habits, and gradually evolved into the later Sichuan opera Kun, high, Hu, play, lamp five kinds of voice.

Sichuan Opera has gradually formed a number of schools due to the popularity of the various vocal cadences in the region and the relationship between the masters and the artists. In these schools, in addition to the Dan line Run (Flower Fairy) school, ugly line Fu (Sanqian) school, Cao (Junchen) school, such as outstanding artists known as the school, mainly according to the popular area of the four schools: First, the "Western Sichuan School," including Chengdu as the center of the Wenjiang region of the counties, the huqin is the main, the formation of a unique "Bei tune"; second is the "Western Sichuan School" including Chengdu as the center of the Wenjiang area counties, the huqin-based, forming unique "Bei tune The second is the "Ziyang River School", including Zigong and Neijiang districts and counties, which is dominated by the Gao Cavity, with the most rigorous artistic style; the third is the "Northern Sichuan School", including Nanchong and part of Mianyang, which is dominated by the singing of bomb operas and influenced by the Qin Cavity; the fourth is the "Western Sichuan School", including Wenjiang counties centered on Chengdu, which is dominated by Huqin, forming a unique "Bei Tone". The fourth is the "East Sichuan School", including Chongqing as the center of the east of Sichuan, because Chongqing is the commercial center of Sichuan, to perform here in many foreign styles of opera. It is characterized by a variety of styles and a diversity of voices.

The repertoire of Sichuan Opera is so extensive that it has been called "Three Thousand Tang Operas, Eight Hundred Song Operas, and Endless Three or Lian Guo Operas". Cannon Branding Pillar", "Five Elements Pillar"), as well as "Jianghu 18 books", etc., and the Sichuan Opera industry recognized as "four major head" ("Pipa", "Golden Seal", "Red Plum", "cast notes"), many of which are lost for other types of plays. After 1949, a number of excellent Sichuan opera repertoires emerged after finishing, such as "The Story of the Willow Shade", "The Jade Hairpin", and "The Story of the Colorful Building".

The performing art of Sichuan Opera has a deep foundation in life and has formed a set of perfect performing programs. The scripts have high literary value, and the performances are true and delicate, humorous and witty, with a strong sense of life, which are loved by the masses. Some actors have also created a number of stunts, such as lifting, opening the eyes, changing faces, drilling fire rings, hiding knives, etc., good use of stunts to create characters, breathtaking.