What are the types of Dan roles in opera?

Six types of dan, flower dan, knife and horse dan, martial arts dan, flower shirt, old dan and so on.

1, Zheng Dan: commonly known as "green", because the role often wear green pleats and named. Mainly play solemn youth, movement range is smaller, action is more stable. They read rhyming lines and sing heavy songs. For example, Wang Baochuan in "Three Palms".

2. Hua Dan: mostly plays young women. Dressed in short clothes, such as coats, pants, skirts, jackets; sometimes wearing long clothes, also embroidered with colorful patterns. Most of the characters are lively and cheerful, and their movements are agile and clever. The performances are mainly based on doing work and speaking, and the speaking is mainly in Jingbai, with less rhyming. For example, Jin Yu Nu in "Beat the Thin Man".

3, knife and horse Dan: knife and horse Dan mostly play good at martial arts young women, martial arts is not as intense as the martial arts Dan, do not have to "fight out of the hand" (that is, throwing, throwing, kicking, catching, weapon stunts), more heavy singing, doing and dancing. For example, Liang Hongyu in "Battle of Jinshan".

4, Wudan: Wudan plays a woman who is good at martial arts and brave. The performance focuses on martial arts, especially the use of stunts "hit out of hand". Wudan and knife Dan's difference in the past, there are two main points, one is the Wudan stilts, knife Dan does not stilts; the second is the Wudan have "hit out of hand", knife Dan no such skills. Wudan wear short clothes, focus on martial arts, not heavy singing. Such as "playing Jiaozan" in the Yang Pai Feng.

5, Huashang: Huashang is the century after the 1920s, synthesizing the artistic characteristics of Qingyi, Huadan, knife and horse Dan, the development of a new type of Dan role. Before the formation of Huashang, an actor could not play both the Qingyi and Hua Dan roles. In order to enrich the performing art of the danjiao and to enrich the ability of artistic expression, Wang Yaoqing combined the quiet and dignified style of the Qingyi, the lively and dexterous performance of the Hua Dan, and the martial arts stance of the Dagger and Horse Dan, and created a danjiao that emphasized on singing, reciting, acting, and fighting, which was named Huashang (a combination of the Hanadan and the Qingyi).

6, Lao Dan: Lao Dan specializes in playing the role of elderly women in the line. The costume, body, and steps are different from those of the green shirt, mainly highlighting the characteristics of the elderly. She sings with her own voice, and her voice is close to that of the old man, but has the flavor of a woman's gentle meandering. She Taijun in "Yang Men Women Generals" is an example.

Features of Hua Dan:

One is the dress. In addition to certain introverted women's dan, with a long shirt (the theater called pleats, cape), mostly with short clothes, or skirt, jacket, or pants, jacket. With pants, jacket, with shoulders, "rice single" (i.e., apron), "four happy belt" (i.e., from the waist in front of the ornaments hanging down in the middle of the two legs).

Chun Cao in "Spring Grass", Sun Yujiao in "Pick Up Jade Bangles", and Li Fenghui in "Playing with Dragons and Phoenix" wore pants and jackets. And Sister Li Feng for Zheng Dan, the lady of the house Dan "two door hold" (i.e., concurrently acting), Sun Yujiao is not acting Zheng Dan. Second, the "four works". To read white, do the main work. Nianbai, mostly in smooth prose, the performance requires agility and eloquence.

Particularly sharp eyes, waist, foot dexterity for the first. Singing is a complementary skill, and dancing is a must. If the assassination of Dan, pouncing and falling kung fu is also indispensable. The modeling of the heavy Nian Scattered white, heavy work, heavy grace, not heavy singing, but requires the singing of the beautiful, sensitive and well-behaved. Typical characters include Yelu Hanyan in "The Palace of the King", Yin Bilian in "Shaohuashan" and Zhou Fengying in "Xin'an Yi".

Categorization of Hua Dan:

In Hua Dan, there are the branches of Boudoir Dan, Joking Dan, Spicy Dan and Assassination Dan.

1, the boudoir Dan, playing is not married to the young girl, in which the character of the introverted, shy, and the Dan close to the main Dan, such as the Peking Opera "Xun (Huisheng) school" in the play "Kan Yu Chuan" in the Yu Suqiu, "Red House two You" in the second sister of the You, "Wedding Blood" in the Qiaoyun, the "phoenix return to the nest" in the Cheng Xue'e, although mostly by the "Mei (Lanzhou)". Although most of them are played by the "Mei (Lanfang) School" Zheng Dan, they can also be categorized as "Boudoir Dan".

2, joke Dan, playing a comedy, farce, love to talk about love to laugh, good fight characters. They do not sing "Pihuang", but "Nanluo", "Blow Cavity", "Liuzhi Cavity" and other folk tunes, accompanied by suona. accompanied by suona. For example, the women in <>, <>, <>, and <>.

3. The Spicy Dan plays a woman with a loose demeanor and a sharp tongue. For example, Pan Qiaoyun in "Cuiping Mountain", Yan Shijiao in "Oolong Courtyard", and Ma Jinding in "Ba Luohe".

4, assassination Dan, there are two kinds of understanding: one is said to assassinate others; one is said to be assassinated by others. The former, such as the "double nails" in the Bai Jinlian, "double bells" (also known as "Ma Si Yuan") in the Zhao Yu, "kill the son of the newspaper" in the Xu's; the latter, such as the "battle of Wancheng" of the Zou's and so on.

5, generalized flower girl, there are "big flower girl", "small flower girl" said. Big flower girl, although the identity of the humble, but grew up in a big family, such as the theater of the magnates maiden. The red lady in The West Wing or The Red Lady is one of them. The small flower girl is a girl from a small family, or a maid. For example, Jin Yu Nu in "Bean Juice", Han Yu Sister in "Kan Yu Chuan", and Chun Lan in "Flower Field Error".