Characteristics of China's Classical Opera

The characteristics of China's classical operas are as follows:

1. The operas that started with Li and ended with China are a comprehensive stage art style. Its characteristic is that many art forms are gathered together by a standard, and their respective personalities are reflected in the same nature.

these forms mainly include: poetry, music and dance. Poetry refers to its literature, music refers to its music accompaniment and dance refers to its performance. In addition, it also includes stage art, clothing, makeup and so on. And these artistic factors are all for one purpose in traditional Chinese opera, that is, acting stories; Everyone follows one principle, that is, beauty.

2. The dramatist means to tell stories by singing and dancing.

In a word, it means to tell stories by singing and dancing (Wang Guowei, a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty). Traditional Chinese opera and drama, both of which belong to drama, have to play characters through actors and use dialogues and actions to express a certain length of story. The difference is that traditional Chinese opera uses musical dialogue and dancing movements to express real life, that is, the means of singing and dancing. It is also known as singing, reading, doing and playing.

3. Take the meaning from the form, and get carried away with pride

China's traditional operas have used a way of taking the meaning and abandoning the form, such as the freehand brushwork of Chinese paintings, to reflect all the beautiful things in life with vertical and horizontal strokes. Therefore, there is a red-faced Guan Yu and a white-faced Cao Cao on the opera stage; When you have a long song, you cry and dance with long sleeves; With the spring scenery without flowers and trees, there is no river without waves.

4. Small stage, big stage

As a stage art, China opera needs to face the contradiction between the narrowness of a stage and the broadness of life. Traditional Chinese opera does not squeeze life with the principle of "three unifications" as drama does to facilitate expression.

Instead, we use virtual means to create flexible time and space, and with the help of the vivid performances of actors and the imagination and understanding of the audience, we can complete the description of the vast world. Therefore, opera can create the illusion of night under bright lights, and it can ride a horse and sail a boat on an empty stage.