What are the characteristics of Ningdu Tea-picking Opera?

Ningdu Tea-picking Opera comes from the folk, and its themes reflect the real life and folklore, and there are very few plays with robes and martial arts. The language is simple and vivid, the performances are realistic, full of songs and dances, and full of rich local flavor.

The male roles are characterized by high steps, short steps and square steps, while the female roles are characterized by broken steps, cloud steps and fast broken steps. In the 1950s, martial arts techniques were absorbed into the repertoire, such as horse-washing, fan-dancing, makeup-combing, embroidery, going out to the court, and production work.

The traditional costume of Ningdu Tea Casting Opera is very distinctive. The flower girl wears beads, crepe or full head, full head set with eight peonies, corner flowers, earrings, and a boat bun behind the head; the colorful girl wears a hammer hammer bun behind the head, red chili peppers on the ears, and edge of the edge of the edge; the young boy wears a young boy's hat; the old boy wears a felt hat or a square hat; and the clown wears a hat.

Costumes: Sheng and Dan have plain faces; the colorful Dan has a spider painted on his face, the clown has a white bat or dragonfly painted on his nose, and the flower face imitates the faces of Qi Opera and Peking Opera.

Costumes: the Dan character wears a short suit or ordinary women's casual wear, with an apron. Raw characters wear blue or green pleats. Clowns wear short costumes with water skirts.

Ningdu tea-picking opera **** has more than 100 songs. The triangular class when the small drama each play one to two tunes, men and women with the same song and different cavity, and to the theater name tune name.

After half a class, due to the richness of the repertoire and the variety of subjects, the artists developed a variety of boards based on the original tunes, such as inverted boards, scattered boards, appealing boards, fast boards, crying boards, etc., of which the appealing boards are the most distinctive.

In recent years, some new tunes have been adapted and created, or several tunes have been linked together to make them more colorful.

The traditional accompanying instruments are: hooks, bamboo flutes, suona and shakuban, ban drums, clappers, small drums, large gongs, su gongs, large cymbals, small gongs, small cymbals, cloud gongs and so on.

Two hooks are used in singing, designated as positive and negative strings, highlighting the positive strings as the lead instruments. The flute and suona are usually used in transitions or interludes. Sometimes suona is also used to accompany in the passages and cantatas, such as "Receiving Sister" and "Repairing the Jar", etc. In the "Sichuan Tunes", suona is also used to accompany in the cantatas. In the tunes of "Chuan tune", "God tune" and "Wang's persuasion of husband", suona is also used to play the "starting board head", which makes the atmosphere more enthusiastic. "

Percussion

The percussion is used for the up and down of the characters, or to match the body movements, or to strengthen the tone of voice in the dawning, and some of the singing and passing of the door into the gongs and drums, which is even more distinctive.