Characteristics of Henan Henan Opera

The art of Henan Opera combines ancient and modern, combines rigidity with softness, is open-minded and generous, and has the beauty of "neutralization". Henan Opera is good at singing. First of all, its singing is powerful, majestic, restrained and passionate, masculine and emotionally powerful. Secondly, Henan Opera has full melody, clear articulation, natural colors, flesh and blood, and is good at expressing the inner feelings of characters.

Moreover, Henan Opera has a clear and strong rhythm, sharp contradictions and conflicts, a story that begins and ends, and humorous and cheerful tunes. It is not only suitable for performing relaxed comedies, but also suitable for performing grand scenes of emperors and generals. The western Henan tune is euphemistic and melodious, and its singing is sad, which is very suitable for performing sad dramas.

In the key plots of Henan Opera, there are generally large-scale vocals, which are fluent, rhythmic and challenging. Generally speaking, they are clear and easy to understand, easy to be heard by the audience, showing the unique artistic charm of the Central Plains.

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The role of Henan Opera consists of "being born ugly". Generally called four students, four Dan and four painted faces. The troupe organization is also composed of four students, four Dan and four Chinese faces, four soldiers, four generals, four ladies-in-waiting, eight plays and two boxes of officials, plus four handyman.

Four students are regular students, two students, primary school students and martial arts students. Zheng Sheng is also known as Hongsheng, Sheng Da and Dahonglian. The second student is also called the second red face and the immediate red face; Xiao Sheng later gave birth to a doll; Wusheng is also called voice change. These four Dan's are Zheng Dan (Tsing Yi, Guimendan), Xiao Dan (Hua Dan), Lao Dan (Broken Dan), Cai Dan (Broken Dan, Ugly Dan), and later Shuai Dan and Wu Dan (Beijing Opera Blues).

The four-flowered face refers to the big-flowered face (including the white face), the second-flowered face (or Wu Hualian hit the flowered face and later divided the hairy face), the third-flowered face (ugly) and the black face.

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