The traditional repertoire of Yueyang Flower Drum Opera

The traditional repertoire of Yueyang Flower Drum Opera is quite a lot, according to incomplete statistics there are 123. Among them, 72 gong cavity repertoire. Including 19 out of the special gong cavity singing "two small", "three small" plays, 53 out of the gong cavity sung in the right key, mostly large-scale plays. 51 out of the qin cavity plays, 34 out of "single sentence Of the 51 qinqiang plays, 34 are "single sentence" plays, 17 are sung with "single sentence" structure tunes or "single sentence" and "clip sentence" mixed tunes. Single sentence" plays with complete plots, mostly large and medium-sized drama, such as "Guo Ju buried children", "Cao An killed his son", "through the hall into a cow", "Wu Niang filial piety", "knife to save his mother" and so on, most of these plays with the Chuan tune came.

The traditional repertoire of Yueyang Flower Drum Opera is mostly based on Han folk life and myths and legends. Most of the early "two small" and "three small" plays express the labor and love of the working people, with a strong earthy flavor and rich interest in life. Some of the multi-role plays have the content of rebelling against feudal morality, pursuing freedom of marriage, and punishing the evil and promoting the good. These traditional plays are easy to understand and have strong local characteristics and life flavor.

The performing art of Yueyang Flower Drum Opera is developed on the basis of folk songs and dances, with a strong flavor of life and real, delicate artistic characteristics. The small Dan line has "three delicate", "three demons", "three pretty" and other means of characterization and beautiful and moving fan performance, etc., the performance of more sets, the degree of standardization is relatively high. Yueyang Flower Drum Opera performers pay great attention to the practice and use of fan work, there is "regardless of the weather, cold and hot, the fan is not away from the side" of the opera proverbs. It is a small Dan, clowns, small students must practice the work. Among them, the fan work of the small Dan is more prominent.