Roles in China's Traditional Opera

Generally refers to the male role other than clean and ugly. The name "Sheng" was first seen in the Southern Opera of Song and Yuan Dynasties, referring to the hero in the play, which was equivalent to the Zaju at the end of Yuan Dynasty. After the Qing dynasty, it evolved into four schools: the old school, the young school, the foreign school and the late school. According to the character attributes, personality characteristics and performance characteristics, it can be roughly divided into old students, young students, international students, late students, martial arts students and infants.

Older students mainly play positive figures who are upright and resolute over middle age. Because they wear more mouths, they are also called bearded students, commonly known as bearded students. Old Peking Opera students are divided into singing, acting, relying on the handle, and martial arts students. There is also a group called Hongsheng, which mainly plays Guan Yu, so it is also called Hongsheng because it is flushed.

Play a young man, divided into middle school students (model students), crown students (official students), poor students, pheasant students (feather students), Wu and so on. Externally, it generally refers to the auxiliary role of students, which does not show certain personality characteristics. In China's plays, only singing, reading and doing are equally important.

Finally, with the names of Southern Opera and Northern Zaju, most dramas have been merged into the old ones. Martial arts students play a good role in martial arts, which can be divided into two categories: long-term martial arts students and short-term martial arts students. Doll students play children, and there are dolls in Beijing opera.

Except some martial arts students are ugly, others are plain, which is what experts call "handsome play"

2. Deniers

Dan is a kind of traditional opera performance in China, and it is a general term for female roles. Danxing has Zheng Dan, Huashi, Hua Dan, Beijing Opera Blues, Udan and Lao Dan.

The most important type of Danhang is Tsing Yi. There is also a name in Tsing Yi called Zheng Dan, who generally plays a dignified and serious person. Most of them are good wives and mothers, or good wives and mothers in the old society.

Generally, the age ranges from youth to middle age. The performance in Tsing Yi is characterized by a singer, with relatively small movements and relatively stable movements. Reading white rhymes, generally not Beijing white, and singing is quite heavy. Judging from the clothing, Tsing Yi wears a lot of pleats, so another name of Tsing Yi is also referred to as "blue shirt".

3. Net

Commonly known as the painted face, most of them play some male roles with special personality, quality or appearance. The makeup mask has a loud voice and a rough style.

Characterized by patterned facial makeup outlined in various colors, it shows rough, strange and heroic characters in personality and temperament. This kind of characters should be broad and bright in performance, with vigorous singing, rough and sharp action modeling lines, large "color blocks", large opening and closing, and magnificent bearing. Such as Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Cao Cao, Bao Zheng and Lian Po.

According to their identity, personality, artistic and technical characteristics, net walkers can be divided into Zheng Jing (commonly known as Dahualian), Vice Jing (commonly known as Erhualian) and Wu Jing (commonly known as Wuerhua). There are shelves and two faces in the sub-net. Ugliness is commonly known as small face or three faces.

Step 4: finally

This business is mainly for men over middle age. In fact, the end of the line is devoted to the function of attracting drama, such as the first appearance, which is called "the end" because it has the opposite meaning. Divided into old students, late students and outsiders.

Laosheng: Middle-aged man, whose role is mainly positive.

Ending: generally playing a middle-aged man, the effect is not as good as the old man in the drama. As usual, the traditional Kunqu opera, the first performance of the whole legend, began with the vice chairman reciting lyrics and songs.

The term "end mud" or "clue color" in northern zaju generally refers to the right angle of the end, which is the same as the word "fate" in Song and Yuan zaju, but has different meanings from "end". The "Duan" in Southern Opera in Song and Yuan Dynasties is actually the "Deputy Duan", which not only serves as a newspaper station to introduce the plot outline and the theme of the play, but also plays a secondary role in the plays with low social status.

The "late" line of Kunqu Opera was developed after the foot color system of Nanqu Opera in Song, Yuan and Yuan Dynasties. According to the way of Nankun, three families, including the old man, the deputy end and the foreigner, took shape in the middle of Qing Dynasty.

5. Ugliness

(Small face or three faces) A comedy character, who draws a face between the bridge of the nose and the eye socket, plays a funny and funny role. Generally speaking, they don't repeat singers in their performances, but mainly speak clearly and fluently. It can be divided into two branches: Wen Chou and Wu Chou.

The classification of character industry in traditional Chinese opera is different in different operas. The above classification is mainly based on the classification of Beijing opera, because Beijing opera gathers the essence of many operas and represents the universal law of most operas, but this can only be a general classification. Specific to each kind of drama, the name and division are more complicated.

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