Characteristics of China Traditional Opera

The characteristic of China's traditional opera is that it begins with divorcees and ends with performers. It is said that singing and dancing is a way of performing stories, which is divorced from form and takes its meaning, getting carried away, and the stage is small and the world is big.

1: China opera is a comprehensive stage art style. Its characteristic is that many art forms are gathered together by a standard, and their respective personalities are reflected in the same nature. These forms mainly include: poetry, music and dance. Poetry refers to its literature, music refers to its music accompaniment and dance refers to its performance. In addition, it also includes stage art, clothing, makeup and so on. These artistic factors are all for one purpose in China traditional operas, that is, acting stories; Everyone follows a principle, which is beauty.

2. Opera, that is, singing and dancing to tell stories: In a word, the characteristics of China opera are "singing and dancing to tell stories" (Wang Guowei, a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty). Traditional Chinese opera and drama in China belong to drama, and they all play characters through actors, and express stories of a certain length through dialogues and actions. The difference is that China traditional opera uses musical dialogue and dance movements to express real life, that is, the means of singing and dancing. Also known as "singing, reading, doing and playing".

3. Get carried away with the form: China's traditional operas show life by taking the form instead of the form, such as freehand brushwork in Chinese painting, which reflects all the beautiful things in life with vertical and horizontal strokes. Therefore, there are red-faced Guan Yu and white-faced Cao Cao on the opera stage; When you were in Long song, you cried and danced with long sleeves; With the spring scenery without flowers and trees, there is no river without waves.

4. Small stage, big stage: As a stage art, China opera needs to face the contradiction between the narrowness of a stage and the broadness of life. Unlike drama, China traditional opera does not squeeze life with the principle of "three unifications" to facilitate expression. Instead, we use virtual means to create flexible time and space, and complete the description of the vast world with the help of the vivid performance of actors and the imagination and understanding of the audience. Therefore, opera can create the illusion of night under bright lights, and it can ride horses and sail on an empty stage.