What is the genre of The Drunken Beauty?

The genre of The Drunkenness of the Concubine is Peking Opera. The Peking Opera Drunkenness of Concubine, also known as The Pavilion of a Hundred Flowers, is a one-fold opera based on the story of Yang Guifei, a historical figure of the Tang Dynasty in China. It has been created and performed by the renowned Chinese Peking Opera artist Mr. Mei Lanfang, and has become widely known as one of the representative repertoires of the Mei School.

The main content of "The Drunkenness of Concubine Yang" is dance and singing based on programmed actions, but they are all actions in life at the same time, such as walking, going up and down the bridge, looking at the fish, the mandarin ducks and looking at the geese, but these actions are not the same as what people do in their real life, they are all exaggerated more than life is glorified and choreographed.

The play's plot is simple but grandiose. The flowing ceremonial dance, the exquisite costumes, the singing, and the rich accompaniment dazzle the audience. Moreover, the singing, reciting and acting are balanced, and every word and move is full of poetry, fully reflecting the beauty of harmony that classical Peking Opera pursues.

The Inheritance Value of Peking Opera

Peking Opera's stage art, in all aspects of literature, performance, music, singing, gongs and drums, make-up, and masks, has, through the long-term stage practice of countless artists, constituted a set of inter-constraints that are mutually reinforcing and complementary. Through the long-term stage practice of countless artists, a set of mutually restraining, complementary and standardized programs has been formed. As an artistic means of creating stage images, it is very rich, and its usage is very strict. If you can't master these programs, you can't complete the creation of Peking Opera stage art.

Because the Peking Opera entered the court at the beginning of its formation, its development and growth were different from that of local operas. It is required to express a wider field of life, more types of characters to be portrayed, more stringent requirements on the comprehensiveness and completeness of its skills, and higher aesthetic requirements on its creation of stage images. At the same time, it also correspondingly makes its folk local flavor weakened, pure and simple, rough style features relatively thin.