What does Hua Dan mean?

Hua Dan is an actress in China traditional opera, who plays a lively or dissolute young woman.

Hua Dan is a traditional opera character in China. She is the image of a young or middle-aged woman, lively or provocative and dissolute, often with a touch of comedy. The word Hua Dan comes from Xia Tingzhi's Collection of Brothels in Yuan Dynasty: Hua Dan is a prostitute whose face is broken by ink. Dan is a branch of China traditional drama, which is different from Zheng Dan (northern drama is usually called Tsing Yi), Udan and Lao Dan. Most of them are naive and cheerful young women.

Hua Dan, a rising figure in Yuan Zaju. Play more passionate and witty women, such as Zhao in Guan Hanqing's Save the Wind and Dust. Later, in Kunshan dialect, it was called Iron Egg. There are one, two, three, four, five, six and paste in Kunqu Opera. Namely Lao Dan, Zheng Dan, banter Dan, pride Dan, assassination Dan, boudoir Dan and paste Dan. Iron Egg also plays a baby boy, such as the river monk (that is, young Tang Sanzang) in "Recognizing the Son".

China traditional opera figures

Birth is the business of playing a male role, which plays an important role in Beijing opera. There are old students, young students, martial arts students, red students, baby students and so on in life. Except for Hong Sheng and Wu Sheng, who have a crooked face, all the other students are plain-faced, and the expert term is "handsome", which means their appearance is clean and beautiful.

Network is one of the main types of traditional Chinese opera performances, commonly known as painted face. With the use of various colors and patterns in facial makeup to outline the face as a prominent symbol, it has played a unique personality, temperament and appearance of male roles. Or rough and heroic, or heroic and honest and frank, or sinister and sinister, or reckless and upright. The singing voice is loud and broad, the movements are big and big, and the ups and downs are clear, which is a unique character modeling on the stage of traditional Chinese opera. Net, divided into Wen Jing and Jason Wu.