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Now the country's basic policy on the art of kunqu is

Now the basic policy of the state on the art of Kunqu is: rescue, protection and inheritance.

Kun Opera (Kun Opera), formerly known as "Kun Shan Cavity" (Kun Cavity for short), is an ancient Chinese opera voice and genre, now also known as "Kun Opera". It is now also known as "Kun Opera". Kunqu is one of the oldest types of traditional Chinese opera, and is also one of the treasures of traditional Chinese culture and art, especially opera, and is known as an "orchid" in a hundred gardens. Kunqu originated in the 14th century in Kunshan, Suzhou, China, and was later improved by Wei Liangfu and others to the whole country, and has been the leader of the Chinese opera scene for nearly 300 years since the middle of the Ming Dynasty.

Kunqu combines singing, reading, acting, dancing and martial arts, and is known for its elegant lyrics, melodious voice and delicate performances, and is one of the genres under the Southern Opera system, which is regarded as "the ancestor of all operas". Kunqu uses drums and boards to control the rhythm of the singing, with the flute and sanxian as the main accompanying instruments, and its singing and reciting are in the "Zhongzhou rhyme". Kunqu was listed as a UNESCO Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity in 2001 (and was added to the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2008).

Features of Kunqu

1. Scripts: Kunqu scripts adopt the structure of the Song and Yuan dynasties' miscellaneous dramas and legends, with each big drama divided into many folds, and each fold constituting a unit of its own, with a relatively complete plot that runs through the overall plot, and many of its single-folded dramas can be performed independently.

2, music: Chinese opera music is roughly divided into two structural forms, that is, the song and plate. The music of Kunqu is structured in the form of qupai, with more than 1,000 qupai, and each opera of Kunqu is a full set of tunes sung by the northern, southern, or northern and southern qupai, which are sung in a delicate and graceful manner. Spoken words, there are four voices, pointed group of points, while the music of Beijing Opera is a plate cavity structure, it is divided into the Xipi two reeds and several other boards.

3, performance: kunqu due to its script and music features, so that the dance, programmed action is very high, the biggest feature of kunqu is singing and dancing, due to the kunqu text is very elegant, so in each sentence of each section of the song is often used in the dance to show the inner feelings of the characters, or with the movement to assist the interpretation of the text, the kunqu dance movement through the imagery, deformation and decorative techniques to make the movement very beautiful. The dance movements of the Kunqu Opera have been imagined, distorted and decorated in various ways to make the movements very beautiful.