Costume Characteristics of Kunqu Opera

In addition to inheriting the costume styles of opera figures since Yuan and Ming Dynasties, some costumes of Kunju Opera are very similar to those popular in society at that time. Reflected in the play, military commanders have their own military uniforms, and civil servants also have different costumes according to the class level of feudal society.

China traditional drama costumes are commonly known as "costumes". Traditional Chinese opera costumes belong to China's traditional drama performance art, belong to the "freehand brushwork art system", and are artistic costumes extracted from daily life costumes. It is similar to historical life dress to some extent, but it is not historical life dress, and the beauty lies in the image dress between similarity and dissimilarity.

Traditional drama costumes are based on the materialized aesthetic implication of costumes, which matches the stylization, virtuality and hypothesis of traditional drama performances. The highest aesthetic pursuit goal is to serve vivid and lyrical characters. It has the meanings of procedural beauty, rhythmic beauty, decorative beauty and symbolic beauty.

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In the rhythm of Kunqu Opera, besides the usual three eyes, one board, one eye, one board and overlapping boards, there is also a gift board, which makes the music layout more changeable and the lingering and graceful features more prominent.

In performing arts skills, we should pay attention to the control of sound, the cadence and cadence of rhythm and speed, the articulation of words, the distinction between "opening, overlapping, whistling and screaming" and the individual singing of various roles, which has pushed the achievements of traditional national music art to a new height.

Musical instruments are also relatively complete. Wind instruments include flute, flute, suona and sheng, stringed instruments include pipa, sanxian and Qin Yue, and percussion instruments include drums, gongs, small gongs, soup gongs, cymbals and drums.

Because the flute with soft voice is the main accompaniment instrument, the gift board is widely used, the way of writing words is divided into abdomen and tail, and its own "elegant and beautiful" characteristics are influenced by Wuzhong folk songs, Kunqu music is known as "graceful and charming, singing and sighing"

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