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Why Chinese opera is more vital

Chinese opera is mainly a synthesis of three different art forms: folk song and dance, rap and burlesque. It originated from primitive songs and dances, and is a comprehensive stage art style with a long history. It is only after the Han, Tang, Song and Jin that the more complete art of opera is formed, which is synthesized by literature, music, dance, fine arts, martial arts, acrobatics and performing arts, and there are about three hundred and sixty kinds of them. It is characterized by the aggregation of many art forms by one standard, reflecting their respective personalities in the *** same nature. Chinese opera and Greek tragedy and comedy, Indian Sanskrit drama and known as the world's three major ancient theatrical culture, after a long period of development and evolution, and gradually formed a "Peking Opera, Yueju Opera, Huangmei Opera, Review Opera, Yu Opera," the five major types of opera as the core of the Chinese Opera Garden. There are many kinds of Chinese opera, according to incomplete statistics, there are more than 360 kinds of Chinese opera in various ethnic areas, and there are tens of thousands of traditional repertoires. Other more famous types of opera are: Kunqu opera, drop play, Cantonese opera, Huaiju opera, Sichuan opera, Qinqiang opera, Shanghai opera, Jin opera, Han opera, Hebei opera, Henan Yuezhong, Henan Luzi, Hunan opera, Hunan flower-drum opera, and so on.