Lao Sheng: plays the elegant and weak middle-aged and old people Xiao Dan: is a young woman.

What is opera: Opera is a traditional form of theater in China, including Kunqu, Be

What is opera: Opera is a traditional form of theater in China, including Kunqu, Beijing Opera and various local plays, with singing and dancing as the main means of performance. A form of literature, singing in miscellaneous dramas and legends. Opera is mainly a synthesis of three different art forms: folk song and dance, rap and burlesque. It originated from primitive song and dance and is a comprehensive stage art style with a long history. It is only after the Han, Tang, Song and Jin that the more complete art of opera is formed, which is synthesized by literature, music, dance, fine arts, martial arts, acrobatics and performing arts, and has about three hundred and sixty categories. It is characterized by the aggregation of many art forms by one standard, reflecting their respective personalities in the *** same nature. Chinese opera and Greek tragedy and comedy, Indian Sanskrit drama and known as the world's three major ancient theatrical culture, after a long period of development and evolution, and gradually formed a "Beijing opera, Yueju opera, Huangmei opera, opera, Yu opera," the five major operas as the core of the Chinese opera garden. Opera is one of China's traditional arts, a variety of interesting, performing forms of singing and dancing, talking and singing, literature and martial arts, set of "singing, doing, reading, playing" in one, unique in the history of the world's theaters, its main features, the collection of classical operatic art of the Peking Opera, for example, one is a man dressed as a woman (Yueju Opera is common for women to dress up as a man). Secondly, it divides the four major roles into Sheng, Dan, Jing and Chou. Thirdly, there is the exaggerated art of disguise - face painting. Fourthly, there are basically fixed styles and specifications for the costumes and props of the opera. Fifth, the use of "programs" for performance. Chinese national opera, from the pre-Qin "haiku", the Han Dynasty's "Hundred Operas", the Tang Dynasty's "Senjun Opera", the Song Dynasty's miscellaneous operas, the Southern Song Dynasty's Southern Opera, the Yuan Dynasty's miscellaneous operas, until the Qing Dynasty's unprecedented prosperity of local opera and the Beijing Opera, which was the first time in the history of Chinese opera. The unprecedented prosperity of opera and the formation of Beijing opera.