What are the four major trades of China traditional opera?

The role of Chinese opera is divided into four main lines: life, Dan, purity and ugliness.

"Life" refers to the actor who plays that person in the play; "Dan" refers to the female role; "Jing" refers to a strong-willed or rude man; "Ugliness" generally refers to funny characters.

The health line also includes old students, young students, military students, red students and baby students. Except for red students and military students, other health lines are relatively clean and beautiful. Danxing also includes Tsing Yi, Hua Dan, Udan, Lao Dan, Cai Dan and Huashan, among which Huashan is an all-round actor who combines Tsing Yi, Hua Dan, Udan and Beijing Opera blues.

Screen lines are commonly known as painted faces, also known as painted faces, including bronze hammer painted faces (main screen), shelf painted faces (sub-screen), Wu net and two painted faces. Ugly behavior is also called "little face" and "three faces", including Wen Chou and Wu Chou.

The development of history

The earliest trades were probably five kinds of trades in Song Zaju, namely, tail mud, leading drama, deputy net, deputy tail and pretending to be lonely, which was called foot color at that time. Yuan Zaju can be divided into three categories: late drama, Dan drama and Beijing drama. Kunqu Opera in Qing Dynasty was divided into "Twelve Roles in Jianghu". Different operas also have different trades. Guangdong Cantonese Opera can be divided into ten lines: final, pure, raw, Dan, ugly, foreign, niche, paste, husband and miscellaneous.

Shaanxi opera is divided into four lines: four lives, six denier, two cleanness and one ugliness. Peking Opera is divided into seven lines: Health, Dan, Quiet, Ugliness, Xiao Sheng, Warm Soup, and Wu Xiang. Each line is divided into many details, such as Dan Dan, Hua Dan, Huashan, Udan, Peking Opera Blues, Boudoir Dan, Ao Dan, Qi Dan, Joke Dan, Clown Dan and so on.

Most of these trades are divided by gender, age, personality, identity, position, status, moral sentiment, makeup characteristics and performance skills.