Pu Opera Culture: Introduction to the Role of the Sheng Line

In Pu Opera, there are four lines of roles: Sheng, Dan, Jing and Chou. The roles in the line are also divided into different character performances according to the actor's skill and influence, and the actor's popularity will be greater. Today, let's go to Pu Opera culture to understand the main content of its Sheng Xing.

Sheng Xing

In these footwork, the bearded student in the Sheng Xing is the most important one, and is generally called a pillar of the troupe as it is the picker of the class actors, and earns the highest salary in the troupe.

Bearded students can be divided into black bearded students, old students, red students, more than playing the old and middle-aged decent characters. Wearing three locks (Guan Yu is five locks) beard as its main symbol. The general public and actors in the habit of bearded actors are called singing red. The four big bangkok bearded actor to "red" for the stage name of the particular more.

Bearded life in the black beard (generally black three locks) called black Hu Sheng, bearded life of the first, more than playing emperors and generals, officials outside the status of middle-aged men, bearded actors must have a hard singing and reading kung fu and solid waist back, martial arts; in addition to mastering the tip of the work, beard work, cap wing work, amplitude of the work of the child, boots work, whip work and other difficult skills.

Singing opera, doing work opera, gong frame theater should be able to afford. Can sing can not do or can do can not sing, can not be called a good style, can only be counted as a piece (skimming) sub actors, not enough to pick the qualifications of the class.

In the singing and reading, it is important to have clear words, strong mouth, slow and fast, and to use the voice as well as the falsetto (back bow tone), which has the characteristics of high-pitched excitement. The body and frame are characterized by solemnity and robustness of the instrument.

Because of the great difficulty in the performance of bearded actors and the heavy weight of carrying the play, bearded actors have always been male actors, which has become a tradition. The Puzhou Opera has very few female performers who sing in the Bearded Sons. Bearded Sheng line of work there are old. The red student's division.

The old man:

The old man plays the role of the old man, hanging white three repairs or three locks of the pale, the performance to sing and do the main, old, heavy, simple is its main feature. The red student wears black three locks, hooked red face, playing a brave and loyal character.

Xiaosheng:

The performance is divided into Wen Sheng, Wu Sheng and Doll Sheng.

Wen Sheng has a hat Sheng, plume Sheng, scarf Sheng, poor Sheng, and so on. Mainly play young men. Sage Sheng, wearing a hat, wearing a python robe or official clothes, playing the role of a person of merit, the performance requires a dignified and unrestrained manner.

Plume student to the head inserted cone tail as the main symbol, mostly playing the role of military generals and civil and military characters. Generally played by the civil and military students. To plume for this kind of footwear stunts. Towel Zisheng, wearing a scarf in, wearing pleats, holding a folding fan (so also known as fan Zisheng), the main actor in the flow of elegant gentleman, the performance requires the flow of dashing, elegant and handsome.

The Poor Sheng, wearing a vegetarian robe or rich clothes to play a downtrodden scholar class characters. It is required to show the character's poor and downtrodden and poor but ambitious look and form.

Doll Sheng, playing children and teenagers, the weight of the play is not heavy, mostly played by children, students.

Wu Sheng: divided into two kinds of short fights and long leaning. Playing young men who specialize in martial arts. Short-playing Wusheng, wearing a hat, wearing an arrow coat, foreign-accented clothes, leopard coat, the performance of martial arts, turning down the main, Wusheng, Za Dailian, with thick-soled boots, the performance of the open fight, the main frame.