What are the artistic features of Beijing Opera?

The artistic characteristics of Peking Opera are mellow charm, combination of reality and fiction, and exquisite.

1, mellow charm

Beijing opera has a strong artistic flavor, which is reflected in literature, performance, music, singing and facial makeup. Through the long-term practice of countless arts, a set of mutually restrictive, complementary and standardized processes has also been formed, and the use is also very strict, which also makes Peking Opera extremely mellow.

2. The combination of reality and surplus

Peking Opera entered the court at the beginning of its formation, which led to its weak local flavor and closer combination of reality and reality in performing arts, which made it go beyond the limitations of stage and time to the maximum extent, making the performance form vivid and both in form and spirit.

3. Exquisite and delicate

In performance, Beijing opera is very delicate, which can be reflected in costumes, singing and so on. Singing requires melodious euphemism and sincere feelings, while martial arts dramas are mainly hot and brave, and performances require both singing and martial arts.

The Expression Techniques and Commercial Classification of Peking Opera

1, expression technology

The four artistic skills of Beijing opera performance: singing, reading, doing and playing are also the four basic skills of Beijing opera performance.

Singing refers to singing, while reciting refers to musical chanting, which complement each other and form a "song", which is one of the two major elements of the performing arts of singing, dancing and Peking Opera. Doing refers to the body movements, fighting and tumbling skills of dance, which are combined with each other to form a "dance", which is one of the two major elements of the performing arts of song, dance and Beijing opera.

Opera actors should be trained from these four aspects since childhood, although some actors are good at singing (singing to the old age), some are mainly engaged in work (Hua Dan), and some are mainly engaged in martial arts (Jason Wu).

2. Industry classification

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 Peking Opera Club: Seven lines are healthy, virtuous, clean, ugly, miscellaneous, martial and fashionable. Everything on the stage of Beijing opera does not appear according to the true colors of life.

The roles on the stage of Peking Opera do not appear according to the true colors of people in life, but are artistically exaggerated in makeup and costumes according to the gender, personality, age, occupation and social status of the roles played, thus dividing the roles on the stage into four types: life, Dan, purity and ugliness.