What are the characteristics of Yu Opera? What is the historical origin

Yu Opera is characterized by life, common people, simplicity, elegance and vulgarity

Yu Opera, originally known as "Henan Opera", also called "Henan High Tune", was produced in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, mostly in the Qing Dynasty, and its style is, first of all, passionate and unrestrained masculinity, good at performing majestic scenes with strong emotional strength; secondly, it is rich in local characteristics, simplicity and commonality, with strong emotional strength; secondly, it is rich in local characteristics, simplicity and commonality, with strong emotional strength. Its style is, firstly, full of passionate masculinity, good at performing grand and majestic scenes with strong emotional strength; secondly, it is rich in local characteristics, simple and common, natural and close to the life of the common people; thirdly, it has a strong and distinctive tempo, sharp conflicts, storylines with a beginning and an end, and characters with big angles. After the formation of Yu Opera, due to the different dialects of speech, the process of circulation in various parts of the formation of distinctive schools: Kaifeng as the center of the singing method called "Xiangfu tone"; Shangqiu as the center of the singing method is called "Yu Dongtong", also known as the East Road, and Luoyang as the center of the singing method is called "Xiangfu tone". The singing method circulated in Luoyang is called "West Yu Tune", also known as Xifu Tune and Yanshan Spring; the singing method circulated in the Shahe River Basin in Southeast Henan Province is called "Shahe Tune", also known as Local Bang. The music of Yu Opera is rich and colorful, and the singing style is of plate cavity. The lyrics are easy to understand, mostly in seven-word sentences or cross sentences. It has a unique plate structure and a relatively complete musical program. It can be divided into four major types of boards: the slow board, the running board, the two-eight board and the flying board. The accompanying instruments of Yu Opera are divided into civil and military scenes, and there are two strings, three strings, and moon zither, which are called the old three-stringed hand or three-stringed hand. Later, the sound of the two strings was replaced by the banhu. Musical instruments commonly used in the martial arts scene include drums, drums, gongs, gongs (also known as gongs or hand gongs), hand cymbals, clappers, and hand plates. The traditional repertoire of Yu Opera consists of more than seven hundred plays. The more representative ones are "The Pair of Flower Guns", "Three Sedan Chairmen", "Ditang Board", "Raising Kou", "Guillotine Case", "Twelve Widows Conquering the West", etc. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Yu Opera has undergone a lot of changes. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, a number of excellent traditional plays, such as Mu Guiying Hangs Up His Commander-in-Chief, Breaking Hongzhou, and Tang Zhixian Trial of Enjoining, etc., have been generally welcomed by the people, while there are also adapted and performed the historical drama Hua Mulan, the mythological drama The Legend of the White Snake, and created and performed the modern dramas Chaoyang Gully, Liu Hulan, and Li Shuangshuang, and transplanted and performed Xiao Erhei Marriage and Luohan Qian, Xianglin Sister-in-Law", "Five Girls", "Red Detachment of Women" and many other plays. Due to the innovation and new music workers, composed a number of popular music singing, so that the Yu opera has become a form of opera popular with the people of the country.