What are the characteristics of Lake Opera?

Originally known as "Huzhou Tanquan", Lake Opera is mainly popular in Huzhou, Jiaxing, Zhejiang, Yuhang, Lin 'an, Wujiang, Yixing, Jiangsu and Guangde, Anhui, with a history of 100 years. Because Xing Wu belongs to Huzhou, it was named "Lake Opera" in 195 1.

Lake opera has a strong flavor of Jiangnan water town. It is sung in Huzhou dialect, which is the local Wu dialect. Not only the language is kind and soft, the tune is fresh and smooth, and the performance is elegant and delicate, which is suitable for family love scenes with joys and sorrows.

The performance of Lake Opera is mainly literary drama, which has the characteristics of simplicity, softness and strong life atmosphere. In the early days, there were only three plays in the role of Huzhou Tanquan: Xiao Sheng, Xiao Dan and the clown.

In the 1930s, in order to perform fashion dramas, the roles were increased to eight primary school students and eight little dancers, which formed a performance style focusing on characterization, good at lyrical singing and delicate performance.

The early Lake Opera is a performing art between Huzhou Opera and Huzhou Rap Tanquan. In a sense, the early Lake Opera was developed from Qin Shu, Huzhou. It is one of the folk art of Huzhou rap, and has many similarities with Huzhou triple jump, another rap form of Qin Shu, Huzhou.

Early lakeside actors are often good at sketches, piano books and triple jump. The actors performed a little play on the beach spring together, and then they rapped three dances and played the piano. Therefore, to discuss the origin of Lake Opera, it is natural to talk about the development of Three Jumps in Huzhou and Qin Shu in Huzhou.

From 1820 to 1850, the lake opera developed from the form of folk art to the form of traditional opera. It has experienced three development periods, from 1820 to 1924, which is called the drama period. Most of them are two or three plays, such as Pulling Orchids.

During the period from 1924 to 1949, in addition to mini-dramas, there were also four pavilion-column dramas and transplanted traditional dramas, such as Double Pearl Phoenix and Pearl Tower, which were collectively called 96 dramas. Singing has also developed from a small opera tune to a beach tune and a burning incense tune.

After the founding of New China, it entered the stage of drama. The successful adaptation of Kirin Belt was its symbol, and creation, adaptation and transplantation became the main body.

Lake Opera retains a large number of folk songs in northern Zhejiang during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and is a treasure house of Huzhou folk songs. The singing method of male Dan's yin and yang voice is rare in China traditional opera; The half rhyme of 18 on the stage is consistent with the rhyme of Wu dialect, which has certain linguistic research value.

Huzhou Tanquan is a kind of folk rap art that gradually rose from 1820 to 196 1 in Huzhou. It is popular and active in Huzhou and Jiaxing counties in northern Zhejiang and neighboring southern Jiangsu. In the heyday of Mingyu Society, its guild organized hundreds of actors, which were divided into Huzhou Gang, Changxing Gang, Tongxiang Gang, Sara Gang, Deqing Gang and Zhenze Gang according to their geographical characteristics.

There are 72 traditional operas such as La Lan Hua, Ridiculous Horse and Borrowing Cloak, and 96 major operas such as Borrowing Yellow Bran, Meeting in Antang and Capturing Yao Qilin alive.

Among them, family dramas such as Lu Yachen, Borrowing Yellow Bran, Meeting in Antang, Selling Sisters to Marry, Yao Qilin are often performed. Most of these plays mainly reflect family love and marriage.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, people in the field of lake drama have created a number of outstanding plays, such as costume drama "Kirin Belt", new historical drama "Song of the Great Wall" and modern drama "Honglang Lake". These plays were performed by Huzhou Lake Troupe, which satisfied and enriched people's cultural life.

After entering the 1980s, Huzhou Lake Theatre Company has successively created and performed modern plays such as Taiping Bridge and Wedding Candle Change, which have a certain influence in China.

From 195 1 to 199 1, Huzhou recruited five groups of actors, among which Xiao, a first-generation lake dramatist, was the representative. The second generation of lake dramatists Gao Xingfa and Gao; The third generation of lake dramatists Bao Di and Lao Zhiliang; Yang, the fourth generation of lake dramatist; Lv zailiang, the fifth generation of lake dramatist.

Lake Opera is a traditional cultural expression and cultural space, which is closely related to people's lives. It is also a witness of historical development and an extremely important cultural resource.

Lake Opera is the only opera in northern Zhejiang. In the development history of more than 100 years, Shanghai Opera, with its rich local repertoires and musical performances, has created many vivid and touching artistic images, reflecting Huzhou's unique local customs.