What are the main types of opera in Shaoxing, China, and point out their characteristics

1, Yueju Opera

Republic of China 10 years (1921), the Shaoxing cultural opera changed the original singing to the silk-string accompaniment, known as the [silk-string Zhengtong], appeared Wei Meiduo, Wang Yongchun, Zhi Weiyong, Ma Ahshun, Zhang Yunbiao, Bai Yumei, Ma Chausui, and other a number of outstanding artists, male class into the full bloom period. In the 12th year of the Republic of China (1923), the Shaoxing Wen Opera Women's Section appeared for the first time in Sheng County.

Characteristics:

Long in lyricism, the singing voice is playful and varied, with a twist and turn, rich in expressiveness, and the performances are abundant and delicate, with the charms of touching people with form and moving them with feelings.

2, Shao Opera

Shao Opera, that is, Shaoxing chaotic play, commonly known as Shaoxing Daban. Rise in the Qing Dynasty Kangxi, Qianlong years. Singing words based on the seven words QiYin couplet, there are independent and complete singing tune, namely [three, five, seven] and [two Fan]. The content of the play is mostly about the fight between the loyal and the treacherous, and the battle and killing. Jiao Zhuan's "Hua Du Nong Tan" said, "Its contents are mostly about loyalty, filial piety, integrity and righteousness, which are enough to move people.

Features:

The words of the opera are so straightforward that even women and children can understand them; the sound is so generous that the blood is stirred by it." In the 1930s, it was called "Yueju Opera", and in 1950 it was designated as "Shaoju Opera". It is popular in Shaoxing, Ningbo, Hangzhou, Jiaxing, Huzhou and Shanghai.

3. Xinchang Tuning Cavity

In the Ming Dynasty, there was a Tuning Cavity in the Yuezhi area, which was commonly called Gao Cavity or Gao Tiao. Zhang Dai "Taoan Mengyi" cloud of Zhu Chusheng, that is, for the then-famous cavity theater actors, cavity popular in the old Shaoxing Province, Taizhou Province, the counties and Ningbo, Zhoushan, Wenzhou, and parts of Zhejiang and other areas.

Characteristics:

The song body, singing cavity has a tune cavity, Kun cavity, four flat, mainly tune cavity, and have a gang cavity, is the only Shaoxing area to the north and south of the song for the script, tune system of the theater. After the Republic of China, all over the tune performance activities Zhe tends to reduce, to 1959, Xinchang County set up a professional high-cavity troupe, the tune that is to "Xinchang high cavity" in the name of the canon.

Expanded information:

Shao Opera's repertoire is quite rich in terms of subject matter, mostly historical plays, followed by family plays. In terms of its style, it is mostly a kind of drama of emotional indignation, fierce struggle and exuberant feelings, with more than 300 traditional plays in circulation. After finishing, "The Monkey King Beating the White Bone Demon", "Yu Qian", "Dragon and Tiger" and "The Tale of the Lush Flowers" have received unanimous praise.

Each line of footwork has its own specialty, such as the second-hand play, "Hanging in the Garden", "Mill Crosstalk", flower-face play, "Fighting the Temple", "Fighting the Mid-levels", the veteran Zhengsheng play, "Regulus Mirror", "Fishermen and Woodcutters", "The Story of the Reed Flower", flower-dan play, "Fragrant Belt", "Crying Box v. Uncle", and so on.

The traditional repertoire of Shao Opera mainly consists of "Gao Ping Guan", "After Vermilion Sand", "Thousand Autumns", "Dragon and Tiger Tiger" with "Er Fan" as the main accent, and "Shuang Guitu", "Double Walnuts", "Dragon and Phoenix Locks" with "Three Fifty Seven" as the main accent, and "Yang Lu", "Yang Lu" and "Yang Lu" as the main accent, and "Shao Opera" as the main accent. Yanglu" (blowing cavity) of the "and Fan", "drunkenness", as well as belonging to the Meilian theater of the "male hanging", "female hanging", "tune changeless" and so on.

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