Difference between Peking Opera and Cantonese Opera

(A), the origin is different:

1. Peking Opera:

The predecessor of Peking Opera is Hui Opera.

Since the fifty-fifth year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1790), the three celebrations, the four joys, the Chuntai, and the Chun, which were originally performed in the south,? The four Hui classes entered Beijing one after another, and they cooperated with the Han tune artists from Hubei, and at the same time accepted part of the repertoire, tunes and performance methods of Kunqu and Qinqiang, absorbed some local folk tunes, and finally formed Peking Opera through continuous exchanges and fusion.

After the formation of Peking Opera, it began to develop rapidly in the court of the Qing Dynasty until it gained unprecedented prosperity in the Republic of China.

2. Cantonese Opera

Cantonese Opera originated from Southern Opera. Cantonese Opera originated from the Southern Opera, also known as the "Great Opera" or "Guangdong Great Opera", which originated in Foshan. It originated in Foshan. As early as the Han Dynasty, the performing arts in Foshan were already very popular. Beginning to appear in Guangdong during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Cantonese opera is a performing art that combines singing, reading, acting, music, stage costumes, abstract forms, and so on.

(2) The language is different:

1. Peking Opera:

Peking Opera has two kinds of pronunciation: Peking Bai and Rhyming Bai. Jingbai is the general understanding of the Beijing dialect. It is generally used by clowns and flower girls. Rhyming Bai is a language based on the basic pronunciation of the Hukuang dialect, with the rhymes of the Zhongzhou (Kaifeng, Henan) dialect. Generally, it is used more by the old students, the blue coats and the flower faces.

2. Cantonese Opera:

Cantonese Opera is sung in Guangzhou vernacular and retains some of the official language.

(3), the line is different:

1, Peking Opera:

Peking Opera line is divided according to the natural attributes of the characters (gender, age) and social attributes (status, occupation), but mainly according to the character traits of the characters to categorize. In the old days, there were seven lines and seven disciplines in Peking Opera: seven lines, i.e., Sheng line, Dan line (also known as Zhan line), Jingsheng line, Chou line, Miscellaneous line, Wu line, and Pop line.

Everything on the stage of Peking Opera is not according to the original appearance of life. The roles on the stage of Peking Opera are not according to the original appearance of life, but according to the gender, character, age, occupation and social status of the role played in the make-up, clothing and other aspects of a number of artistic exaggeration, so that the roles on the stage are divided into the four types of raw, dan, jing, and chou.

2. Cantonese Opera:

The roles of Cantonese Opera are: 1) the end of the line (Lao Sheng), 2) the net (Hua Mian), 3) the Zheng Sheng (middle-aged male role), 4) the Dan (Qing Yi), 5) the Chou (male and female guiding roles), 6) the waiter (big flowery villain), and 6) the waiter (male and female guiding roles). (big flower face villain), seven small (Sheng, Xiao Wu), eight stickers (the second gang Hua Dan), nine Fu (old Dan), ten miscellaneous (underlings, dragon sets and so on), collectively known as the top ten lines.

Later it was streamlined into a six-pillar system, i.e., Wenwusheng, Xiaosheng, Zhengyin Huadan, Ergang Huadan, Chusheng, and Wusheng. These were categorized according to the character's age, gender, personality, appearance and other characteristics. The term "Mou" stands for older characters. "Sheng" represents male characters. "Dan" represents female characters. "Pure" is a male character with a strong and violent personality. The "Chou" is the comic character.

(D), different costumes:

1, Peking Opera:

Traditional Peking Opera costumes can be divided into: python, leaning, pleats, cape, clothes.

2, Cantonese Opera:

The early costumes of Cantonese Opera were mainly modeled after the Ming Dynasty's clothing styles and were improved for theater costumes. During the Qing Dynasty, Peking Opera became more and more popular and exchanges gradually increased, and the costume system was gradually influenced by Peking Opera. Moreover, new plays were added to the roles of court officials at that time, and some of the costumes had the styles of the Qing Dynasty official uniforms. Traditional Cantonese opera costumes can be categorized into: python, leaning, pleats, open cloak, official clothes, cape and clothes.

(E), accompanied by different musical instruments:

1, Beijing Opera:

Beijing Opera accompanied by musical instruments are divided into percussion instruments and orchestral instruments. Percussion instruments are boards, single drums, gongs, cymbals, cymbals, etc., known as the "martial arts field". Orchestral instruments include the Beijing hu, the Beijing erhu, the moon zither, and the three strings, which are known as the "cultural field".

2. Cantonese Opera:

In the early days of Cantonese Opera, the only musical instruments used were the two-stringed instrument, the fiddle, the moon zither, the xiao flute, the three-stringed instrument, and the gongs, cymbals, and drums, and the tones were relatively simple. After the ban on Cantonese opera was lifted in the Qing Dynasty, clappers were added.

After entering the mature stage, Cantonese opera used more than forty kinds of musical instruments, which can be roughly categorized into four main groups: wind instruments, plucked instruments, stringed instruments and percussion instruments.

The plucked instruments include the guzheng, pipa and butterfly zither; while the gongs and drums include the pugilist's board, sha's, double-skinned drums/bang drums, cymbals, jing gongs, hook gongs, war drums, large wooden fishes, small wooden fishes, big gongs and cymbals, and the big hall drums. After the reform of Cantonese Opera, various Western instruments such as saxophone and violin were accepted to perfect the musical effect.

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