The names of the main characters and four famous actors in Beijing Opera.

The classification of Peking Opera is mainly based on the characters' personality characteristics besides their natural attributes (gender, age) and social attributes (identity, occupation). The old saying of "Seven Lines and Seven Subjects" in Beijing Opera Club: Seven lines are healthy line, Dan line (also known as professional line), clean line, ugly line, miscellaneous line, martial line and popular.

Students: The general term for male positive roles except for Hua Lian and Clown, which can be divided into old students (the old singer of An Gong, the old student who redoes, and the old student who emphasizes martial arts), martial arts students (long martial arts, short martial arts, and works for monkeys), young students (fan students, pheasant students, poor students and martial arts students), red students and dolls.

Dan: The general term for female positive roles, including Tsing Yi (Zheng Dan), Hua Dan, Gui Dan, Beijing Opera Blues, Wu Dan, Cai Dan, etc.

Jing: Commonly known as the painted face, most of them play some male roles with special personality, quality or appearance. The makeup mask has a loud voice and a rough style. "Net" can be divided into big face singing, positive face singing (duet, called copper hammer blackhead), shelf flower (heavy work), five or two flowers, beating flowers and oil flowers (called wool net).

Ugly: Play comedy roles, be ugly (also called jumping with your mouth) and so on. Every profession has a performance program, and singing, reading and acting have their own characteristics.

Differences between the four major services of extended data:

Among them, Zheng Mo and Zheng Dan play the main roles. At that time (the era of Yuan Zaju), the division of these trades (roles) was not as scientific and meticulous as it is now, and the meanings and manifestations of various trades were also very different from those on the stage now. By the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, when Kunqu Opera was popular, the division of trades became more and more accurate, and it had been divided into 12 roles (trades).

Twelve roles in Jianghu: old student, regular student (equivalent to a young student), foreigner, late-stage, orthodox, Xiao Dan (equivalent to a girl), iron egg, Lao Dan, big face (equivalent to a net), two faces (equivalent to a net), three faces (equivalent to a Zhang Chou face) and miscellaneous. These foot colors are unique in art, but it should be said that Han opera has the greatest influence on the division of Beijing opera.

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