What is the history of Chinese opera?

Opera is a traditional Chinese form of theater. It is a synthesis of various factors including literature, music, dance, fine arts, martial arts, acrobatics and performing arts. It has a long history of origin, as early as the primitive society song and dance has sprouted, in the long process of development, after more than 800 years of continuous enrichment, innovation and development, only to gradually form a more complete system of opera art. Although its origins come from three different art forms, namely folk song and dance, rap and burlesque, the biggest feature that distinguishes a type of opera is still shown in the musical chants from different vocal systems. These musical chants are based on the language, folk songs and folk music of the region where they are produced, as well as the music of other regions. Most of the characters in each type of opera are played by the different facial variations of the footwear line such as Sheng, Dan, Jing and Chou. The performances emphasize the use of programmed movements based on life, and virtual space processing. Paying attention to singing, doing, reading, looking for art, performance transportation and rich dance, high technical, constitutes a difference between other plays and become a complete opera art system

According to incomplete statistics, China's nationalities and regions of the opera, there are about 360 kinds of traditional repertoire of tens of thousands of plays. After the establishment of the People's Republic of China and the emergence of many adapted traditional repertoire, new historical drama and modern theater to express the themes of modern life, are warmly welcomed by the majority of the audience. The more popular and famous types of opera are: Beijing opera, Kunqu opera, Yueju opera, Yu opera, Xiang opera, Cantonese opera, Qin opera, Sichuan opera, Pingju opera, Jin opera, Han opera, Chaoju opera, Min opera, Qi opera, Hebei opera, Huangmei opera, Hunan flower-drum opera, etc. There are more than fifty types of operas, especially those that are popular in China, such as the Chinese Opera, the Chinese Opera, and the Chinese Opera. And so on more than fifty kinds of theater, especially the Beijing opera is the most popular, throughout the country, not limited by region. Art

According to legend, there were four major types of theater in Beijing at the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, namely, South Kun, North Eagle, East Liu, and West Bang. According to the record of the eighth year of the Jiaqing: "There is a Ming started Kun cavity, the ocean is full of ears, and Eagle, bang, qin, willow each cavity, the north and south of the prosperous meeting, the sheng and chime the same sound, singing and dancing, the actor gathered, and no sense of the Beijing." Also explains the historical situation. Among the so-called South Kun that is popular in the area of Kunshan in the South Kunshan cavity; North Eagle Guide to the combination of theater and Northern Qu, produced in Jiangxi Yiyang area of Yiyang cavity, that is, passed to the north to form the high cavity, that is, then prevalent in the capital of the Beijing cavity; East Willow that is popular in the Shandong Liuzi cavity; West bang is naturally the northwest of China's widely circulated clapper, which is also known as Qin腔. This illustrates the grandeur of the four sides of the East, West, South, North and South artists gathered in Beijing.

From the current point of view, the above four cavities have far exceeded their original scope, some have long been throughout the country in many provinces, Yiyang cavity (i.e., high腔) is in Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Hunan, Hubei, Fujian, Guangdong, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Hebei, widely spread, so that the people concerned that this statement is not scientific, but the historical formation of this statement is still objectively reflecting the historical facts. Historical facts. From the current distribution of opera genres, Kun Opera still has a considerable audience base in Shanghai, Nanjing, Zhejiang and Hunan. Yiyangqiang not only took root in the north, from the Qianlong period, in the capital, "six famous classes, nine city rotation", but also on the Beijing Opera and the formation of a number of northern opera plays an important role in the formation of the influence of the circulating in the Jiangnan area is also mainly in many northern language areas. Although Liuziqiang (including the Liuqin opera influenced by it) is popular in Henan, northern Jiangsu, southern Hebei and northern Anhui, its important activities are still in Qufu, Tai'an and Linyi in Shandong. Qinqiang (i.e. Shan-Shaanxi Opera) and its development from Shanxi, Henan, Hebei and other places of the clapper chamber although so far prevalent in the north, but we see in Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi and other places of the Qinqiang has a deeper, more ancient roots and a wider audience, so that the "South Kun, North Eagle, East Liou, West bang" is a historical basis for the statement. historical basis.

Types of national opera

Color tune drama Tibetan opera Chaozhou opera Chu opera Fengyang Flower Drum Opera Guangdong Han Opera Gui Opera Han Opera Huangmei Opera Huizhou Opera Jingzhou Flower Drum Opera Liuzi Opera Lv Opera Shandong Bang Opera Shao Opera Sichuan Qu Opera Ningbo Opera Yunnan Lantern Strong Drama Yue Opera Yue Opera Yue Tune Yu Opera Yihuang Opera Yang Opera Xinjiang Qu Qu Qu Quzi Opera Hunan Opera Xixi Opera Wu Opera Wu Dumplings Bowl Cavity Tianjin Civilization Opera Su Opera Qu Qu Qu Qu Qu Qu Qu Qu Opera Qinghai Flat String Opera Qinqiang Qian Opera Q Opera Pope Opera Putu Xian Opera Evaluating ou opera Min opera Longjiang opera Liaonan opera Kun Opera Liyuan opera Beijing opera Jin opera Ji opera Huanglong opera Huai opera comical opera flower children's theater Shanghai opera Hebei opera Gan opera two people turn two people Taiwan Sichuan opera northern Kunqu opera New City opera