Southern Opera Representative Genres

Northern operas include: Peking Opera, Kunqu Opera, Yu Opera, Hebei Opera, Shanxi Opera, Jin Opera, Lv Opera, Pian Opera, Qin Opera, Bowls Opera, Qu Opera, Two People's Tale, Henan Luzi, Shandong Liuzi Opera, Shandong Rapid Script, Er Rentai, Longjiang Opera, Jiyu Opera, and so on.

Southern operas include: Yueju Opera, Cantonese Opera, Sichuan Opera, Huangmei Opera, Han Opera, Flower Drum Opera, Gezai Opera, Shanghai Opera, Pingbang, Huaiju Opera, Wu Opera, Huizhou Opera, Lushu Opera, Xiyu Opera, Yang Opera, Gan Opera, Chiu Chow Opera, Xiang Opera, Yiyang Opera, Gaojia Opera and so on.

Expanded Information

Opera is a distinctive title for traditional Chinese theater. The first person to use the term opera in history was Liu Ocarina (1240-1319) of the Song Dynasty, who proposed "Yongjia Opera" in his "Biography of the Lyricist Wu Yuzhang", and the "Yongjia Opera" he referred to was what was later called "Southern Opera" and "Southern Opera". South Opera", "opera text", "Yongjia miscellaneous operas". From the modern Wang Guowei began, only the "opera" used as a general term for traditional Chinese theater culture.

The most significant and unique artistic characteristic of opera is "song", which is mainly composed of two parts, namely, music and singing, and the identification of a local theater mainly relies on the voice, musical melody and the local language of singing.

Opera is one of China's traditional arts, with a wide variety of interesting plays and performances in the form of singing and dancing, talking and singing, writing and martial arts, integrating "singing, doing, reading and playing", which is unique in the history of the world's theater.

It originated from the primitive song and dance, is a comprehensive stage art style with a long history. After the Han, Tang to the Song and Jin to form a more complete opera art, after a long period of development and evolution, and gradually formed a "Beijing opera, Yueju opera, Huangmei opera, opera, Yu opera" five major opera as the core of the Chinese opera garden.

Baidu Encyclopedia--Chinese Opera