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The Development Status of Chaozhou Chaozhou Opera

As a kind of Han folk art, from the perspective of performance, the foot color business of Chaozhou opera has the most local characteristics of life, Dan and ugliness. Sheng Dan's drama Sweeping the Window is regarded as a typical representative of China opera, which tells a story by singing and dancing. Clowns in Chaozhou opera can be divided into ten categories, among which clowns fans are famous all over the world. In the old ugly drama Chai Fanghui, the clown's slide skill is unique to Chaozhou opera and enjoys a high reputation in the opera world. Chaozhou opera music belongs to a set of music cards, singing North and South songs, with beautiful tunes, lightness and delicacy, and being good at lyricism. After the mid-Qing dynasty, it absorbed board cavity music, which was flexible, diverse and colorful. There are more than 200 traditional tunes and more than 0/000 pieces of music in Chaozhou Opera, which are important materials for studying the tunes of China opera. Chaozhou opera is sung with real voice and with the ancient song "Si Er Music", which is full of charm. Its tunes include beautiful and gentle light tones, fair and solemn heavy tones, sad and lively tones and light and humorous contrast tones. The percussion instruments of Chaozhou Opera are all fixed pitch with polyphonic harmony. After 1950, they were imitated by many brother operas.

Chaozhou Opera is a vivid example of the survival of China ancient operas on the stage, and it is one of the representatives of the excellent cultural expressions of the Han nationality, which has profound historical significance and high aesthetic value. After 1990, Chaozhou opera was restricted by the market economy and impacted by various modern literary forms, with reduced investment, brain drain and declining artistic level. Excellent traditional performing arts are on the verge of extinction and in a difficult state of development, which urgently needs protection and support.