What are the top ten Chinese operas?

Review Opera: popular in Beijing, Tianjin and North China, Northeastern provinces, which originated from the "Lotus Flower Drops" in the eastern part of Hebei, and absorbed the Peking Opera, Hebei Opera, shadow, drums, and other music and performance development and formation.

Peking Opera: popular throughout the country, it is the most influential and representative opera. Its predecessor was the Anhui Opera, commonly known as the Leather Reed Opera, which was once called the "Ping Opera" and later renamed the Beijing Opera. The performance of the opera emphasizes both song and dance, incorporates martial arts techniques, uses virtual movements, has a strong sense of rhythm, and has created a lot of programmatic performance movements.

Vietnamese Opera: One of the more popular and popular local operas in Jiangnan. It originated in the area of Zhejiang Province, where the ancient state of Yue is located, so it is called Yueju Opera, which has a history of seventy to eighty years and was developed by the art of rapping, "singing on the ground". Yueju Opera has a long history of lyricism and is mainly based on singing, with a clear, beautiful and moving voice, and a very touching performance, very much in the local color of the south of the Yangtze River.

Cantonese Opera: a major drama in the south of China, popular in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong, Macao, Southeast Asia and overseas Chinese areas, singing and reading in the Guangzhou dialect. It takes "bang-ling" as its basic tune, while retaining the Kun, Gao, and Guang cavities and absorbing Guangdong folk music and seasonal tunes. In addition to the use of ethnic instruments such as the erxian, gaohu, sanxian and yueqin, the accompaniment also boldly adopts Western instruments, such as the violin, saxophone and other bass instruments.　

Huangmei Opera: Anhui Province, the local theater, formerly known as Huangmei tune or tea-collecting opera. Popular in Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei part of the region, to Huangmei tea picking tune based on the development of folk songs and dances. At the beginning of the performance of "two small plays", "three small plays", and then by the Qingyang cavity and Hui tune influence, gradually developed into the performance of the complete opera. Its singing cavity to preserve the folk songs of the original color, euphemistic and moving, in the performance to maintain the characteristics of singing and dancing, a strong sense of life.

Qinqiang: popular in China's northwest region of Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, Xinjiang and other places of the largest theater. Because of the date wood clappers as the beat instrument, also called "clapper cavity", commonly known as "arengangzi". Qinqiang originated from the folk songs and dances in the ancient Shaanxi and Gansu areas, and was gradually formed through the creation of the people through the generations, which is quite an ancient type of theater.　

Kun Opera: an ancient Chinese opera, also known as Kunshan accent, popular in the Kunshan area of Jiangsu Province. During the Jiajing period, the opera musician Wei Liangfu absorbed the strengths of the Haiyan cavity and the Goyang cavity and reformed the Kun Opera to create the famous "Shuimo Cavity", which led to a great development of the Kun Opera music. Kunqu has a complete performance system and a unique vocal system, with fresh and melodious tunes and beautiful performances.

Jin Opera: Zhonglu Bangzi, the representative opera of Shanxi Province, is one of the four major operas of Shanxi Province, and its activity area is in the central part of Shanxi Province, especially in the vicinity of Taiyuan and the area of Jinzhong. Zhonglu Bangzi is characterized by its melodious and smooth melody, beautiful, mellow and friendly tunes, clear lyrics, and the rich local flavor and unique style of the Jinzhong area.　

Gui Opera: local opera. Formed in the Ming Dynasty, developed in the Qing Dynasty and flourished in the present day, it is the earliest type of opera formed in Guangxi and circulated in the northern region of Gui, with a history of more than 300 years. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Tang Jingsong wrote "Watching Chess Pavilion Miscellaneous Dramas", 40 plays, which became the first repertoire of Gui Opera. In the 1930s and 1940s, it became one of the top ten Chinese opera genres because of the famous dramatist Ouyang Yuqian's creation, adaptation, and new adaptation of the Gui dramas "Liang Hongyu", "Playing the Golden Branch", and "Broken Bridge".

Chaosiu Opera: It is one of the three major local opera genres in Guangdong and one of the top ten in China. It is known for its elegant and popular language, beautiful and lyrical singing, strict division of labor, and beautiful and rich skills, with strong local colors and unique artistic style, and is known as "the flower of the South" and "the wonder of the arts". It is not only in the native land by the people's favorite, but also spread to the north and south of the Yangtze River and countries at home and abroad, favored by many experts and celebrities.