What is the representative work of Sichuan Opera?

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There are many Sichuan operas, "three thousand in the Tang Dynasty, eight hundred in the Song Dynasty and countless in the Three Kingdoms". Among them, the tenor opera has the richest inheritance and the most remarkable artistic features. Traditional dramas include five robes (the story of blue robe, the story of yellow robe, the story of white robe, the story of red robe and the story of green robe) and four pillars (touching Tianzhu, crystal pillar, burning pillar and red robe) 1949. After sorting out, a number of outstanding Sichuan opera dramas have emerged, such as Liu Yin's Story and Hosta.

The performing arts of Sichuan Opera have a deep foundation of life and form a perfect performance program. The script is of high literary value, real and delicate performance, humorous and full of life flavor, which is deeply loved by the masses. Some actors also created many stunts, such as lifting, opening eyes, changing face, drilling fire rings, hiding knives and so on. They are good at using special effects to shape characters, which is amazing.

In the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, due to the immigrants from all over the country and the establishment of local guildhall, many kinds of North-South tune operas have spread all over Sichuan, and in the long-term development and evolution, they have merged with Sichuan dialect, folk customs, folk music, dance, rap and folk songs, and gradually formed the tune art with Sichuan characteristics, thus promoting the development of Sichuan local opera-Sichuan Opera.

Artistic feature

Face change-face change

The performance of Sichuan Opera is full of life and vivid humor. In order to better shape the characters, Sichuan opera artists have created many stunts, such as changing faces, hiding knives, drilling fire circles and opening eyes. The performance is vivid, novel and interesting, which forms a major feature of Sichuan Opera.

Changing face is one of the specialties of Sichuan Opera. It is a romantic expression of the inner thoughts and feelings of the characters in the play. There are three ways to change face shape-wiping face, blowing face and pulling face.

Wipe your face: apply oil paint to a specific part of your face, and then wipe it on your face with your hands to become another face. If you want to change everything, draw it on your forehead or eyebrows. If you just want to change the lower part of your face, draw them on your face or nose.

Blow face: only suitable for powdered cosmetics, such as gold powder, toner and silver powder. Actors put powdered cosmetics in containers at specific positions on the stage, or in containers such as wine glasses used by characters. When the actor does a prone position or other specific dance movements, he takes the opportunity to put his face close to the vessel, close his eyes, hold his breath, and blow through his mouth. The powder is thrown to his face and immediately becomes a face of another color.

Pull a face: a complicated way to change your face. Is to draw a face on a piece of silk in advance, cut it open and tie a silk thread to each face. Then, fold several faces together and stick them one by one. Each side has a specific silk thread, which is tied in a convenient and inconspicuous place of the clothes. With the needs of the performance, under the cover of dance movements, they were quickly torn off one by one. This method is ingenious and neat.

Face-changing of masks means that actors draw different faces on different materials, such as wood, paper, cloth, silk and rubber, according to actual needs, that is, the face shell changes. For example, Saburo's captured character Yan Xijiao changed his face in the water drifting in the Sichuan Opera "Changing Face/Guan".

Beard, beard changes have the following two kinds: change into inaction, actors change quickly, even faster than changing face. Make a black and white one. In Wen Zhaoguan, a Sichuan opera, Wu Yuan defected to the State of Wu and fled to Zhaoguan, where his portrait was hung to be taken alive. Wu Yuan went to the hermit's house for temporary refuge. Because of his inner anxiety, his hair and beard turned white overnight. The defenders caught Huang by mistake and the soldiers were able to go through the customs.