Introducing the Various Performance Forms of Gezai Opera Types

The Gezai Opera has evolved from local singers to the present day, and has developed more performance forms according to the different performance locations, and each performance form has its own characteristics and charms. Next, let's go to the Gozai Opera Culture to see what kinds of performance forms of Gozai Opera now, and take a look at it.

Floor-sweeping Gezai Formation:

Gezai (Jin Ge), which was introduced to Taiwan from southern Fujian, was developed into a "local Gezai" in Yilan, and then imitated the performance of the Chegu Opera, which is a comical and witty performance of traditional folktales, and parades with the sedan chair, which is called "Gezai Formation". Later on, the performance was modeled after the car drum opera, performing comical and witty traditional folk stories and parading with the sedan chair.

The only four plays performed by the landed sweeps are "Shan Bo Ying Tai", "Shixiao Ji", "Lv Meng Zheng", and "Chen San Wu Niang". The actors and actresses are mainly clowns and dancers, and most of them do not wear costumes and do not have complicated body parts. The performers of the small opera are mostly non-professional actors, so the performance content is mostly simple movements, and the music is not complicated, usually repeating with one or a few tunes. These performances are mostly non-profit amateur performances, and the performing teams are all self-organized by the public, which makes the performances more interesting than the artistic standard.

Wild Taiwanese Opera:

Wild Taiwanese Opera is a form of opera that is performed in the temple. It is the most common type of opera performed by singers. Local singers absorbed the essence of other types of theater and wore costumes to perform on stage, and the opera became a major type of theater. Most of the performances of Nodai Opera are related to religious activities, such as temple fairs, god rewards, jiao-festival and the birthday of the gods and other activities, many Nodai Opera performances.

Wild Taiwanese opera is characterized by a lively and simple atmosphere, as the performance of the gods is the main reason for traditional folk performances, it is more ceremonial than artistic; and wild Taiwanese opera in the main theater before the performance, must first perform a "lucky play", commonly known as the "play the fairy", the purpose of the people in the public pray for blessings, the relationship between the gods and humans in the process of playing the fairy, to get the fusion of the meeting.