Where did Beijing Opera in China originate?

Peking Opera is the quintessence of China and an important means for China to introduce its traditional culture to other countries in the world. The manifestations of Beijing opera are generally singing, reading, doing and playing. Beijing opera is distributed all over the country, and it also has different expressions, mainly around Beijing. Constantly communicate and integrate with foreign cultures.

First,? The Formation of Peking Opera

Peking Opera is also called Pingju. The predecessor of Peking Opera evolved from the cultural needs of southern Huizhou merchants, which can also be called Huizhou Opera. At the same time, Peking Opera has also accepted the arrangement of some other tracks and the integration of channels, performances and folk creative methods, and finally formed the manifestations of Peking Opera that we see now.

Second,? Beijing opera business

Beijing opera evolved from historical stories. According to the gender, age, occupation, personality, expression and social status of different roles in historical stories, it exaggerates the artistic expression in the costumes and makeup of actors, and divides the performance forms at this stage into five forms, and the singing skills can be divided into old-school students, martial arts students and minority students. The traditional roles of women are Tsing Yi, Hua Dan, Udan, Dan Dan, Peking Opera Blues and so on.

Third,? Expression of Peking Opera

There are two ways of singing Beijing Opera, also called Pi Huang, which are mainly manifested in Huang Er and Xipi. Beijing opera is often performed in different ways. Peking Opera facial makeup is the favorite of our modern audience. This difference is based on the different personalities of the characters they represent in the plot of Peking Opera, namely Guan Gong with red face and Zhang Fei with black face. The blue-faced Cao Cao represents different personality meanings and also has different thin and flat meanings. The accompaniment of Peking Opera is mainly based on China's ancient musical instruments, such as erhu, San Xuan and some orchestral music.

China's Peking Opera has a history of over a hundred years, which has gradually merged and exchanged, forming the Peking Opera we see in modern times. With the maturity of Peking Opera actors, Peking Opera is now well known, recognized, appreciated and developed. Peking Opera began to go to the world, and began to express China's cultural traditions to different people in the world, which is also an expression form for China to show his cultural traditions to the world.