Cao Xueqin's Opera Art

Kunqu opera has high literary value. The vernacular Chinese of Peking Opera and doggerel are not classical literature, but the classical Chinese of Kunqu Opera has the unique beauty of China classical literature. Moreover, the structure of Chinese classical music is Qupai style, and the score is Gongchi score, which embodies the Gongdiao theory of Chinese classical music. Beijing opera is a banqiang opera.

On the other hand, Kunqu opera also has high literary value. Kunqu opera includes phonology, exegetics, annotation, classical literature and so on. Peking Opera, a national opera, has only the value of tunes. Kunqu opera scripts and scripts must be written in ancient and classical Chinese, not in vernacular Chinese, which puts higher demands on Kunqu opera scripts and makes Kunqu opera scripts have higher literary learning value.

A Dream of Red Mansions is one of China's four classical novels. I think many people have finished reading it. Careful friends may find that Kunqu opera is mentioned (admired) many times in A Dream of Red Mansions. Kunqu Opera originated in Kunshan at the end of Yuan Dynasty. When it was first popular, it was also called Kunqu Opera. During Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty, in the process of inheriting Kunshan dialect, it added some parts of Beiqu and adjusted the aria tune, which was later renamed Kunqu opera.

There are many folk people who like Long Kunqu Opera, especially in the Jiangnan generation, and many literati are scrambling to write lyrics for Kunqu Opera. Since the Ming Dynasty, Kunqu Opera has become an official opera, and it has been recognized by the royal family because of its soft singing and beautiful melody. From the Ming Dynasty to the mid-Qing Dynasty, Kunqu Opera has been in a high position in the field of traditional operas in China. Because of its "exclusive" status, it has also become a national drama, also known as "official tune".