What is Peking Opera?

Beijing Opera is an art form, which originated from primitive songs and dances and is a comprehensive stage art style with a long history. During the Han, Tang, Song and Jin Dynasties, a relatively complete opera art was formed, which was composed of literature, music, dance, art, martial arts, acrobatics and performing arts. It is characterized by the collection of various art forms in a standard, which embodies their respective personalities in the same nature.

Anhui Opera is the predecessor of Beijing Opera. Since the 55th year of Qianlong reign in Qing Dynasty (1790), four Huizhou classes, Sanqing, Sixi, Chuntai and Hechun, which originally performed in the south, have successively entered Beijing to cooperate with artists from Hubei.

At the same time, it also accepted some plays, tunes and performance methods of Kunqu Opera and Shaanxi Opera, and absorbed some local folk tunes. After constant communication and integration, Peking Opera was finally formed. After the formation of Peking Opera, it began to develop rapidly in the Qing court until the Republic of China.

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Through the long-term stage practice of countless artists, the stage art of Peking Opera has formed a set of standardized and standardized programs, which restrict and complement each other in literature, performance, music, singing, gongs and drums, makeup and facial makeup. As an artistic means to create a stage image, it is very rich and its usage is very strict.

If you can't master these programs, you can't complete the creation of Peking Opera stage art. Just as Peking Opera entered the court at the beginning of its formation, its development and growth are different from local operas. It is required to show a wider range of life, create more types of characters, be more comprehensive and complete in skills, and have higher aesthetic requirements for its stage image.

Of course, it also weakens its folk local flavor, and its simple and rude style is relatively weak. Therefore, its performing arts tend to combine reality with reality, which goes beyond the limitation of stage space and time to the maximum extent, thus achieving the artistic realm of "expressing the spirit with form and having both form and spirit".

The performance requires exquisiteness and exquisiteness, and it is everywhere; It is required to sing melodiously and euphemistically, and the voice is full of emotion; Martial arts is not won by bravery, but by "singing martial arts".