What are the four schools and characteristics of Peking Opera?

The four schools of Peking Opera mainly refer to the four schools in Dangao, namely Mei School (Mei Lanfang), Cheng School (Cheng), Xun School (Xun Huisheng) and Shang School (Shang Xiaoyun).

The genre of Peking Opera mainly refers to the performing artistic style and artistic characteristics of actors, which are inherited and spread by teachers. The appearance of different genres in a drama is the inevitable product of artistic development, and the formation of various genres is the expression of artistic prosperity. The founders of four schools of Peking Opera and the characteristics of Peking Opera;

Mei Pai was founded by Mei Lanfang, who pursued the highest realm of art all his life and created a large number of ancient female images with kindness, gentleness, luxury, elegance and a sense of justice with his own performances.

The founder of Cheng School is Cheng, who mainly expresses ancient women with deep and tortuous singing and demure and dignified stage image, and is especially good at shaping the images of middle-and lower-class women who are miserable, soft outside and rigid inside.

Xun Huisheng, the founder of Xun School, is good at shaping innocent, lively and enthusiastic girl images with gentle and charming style.

Shang Xiaoyun, the founder of Shang School, has a unique style, is vigorous and graceful, and is not delicate in singing, reading, doing and playing. He wins with strength and strength and has masculine beauty.

The four major students refer to four famous Peking Opera performing artists. There are four sayings in the history of Peking Opera: the first four must be born, and the last four must be born. Ma is the top four bearded students and the last four bearded students on the list. Therefore, seven famous Peking Opera actors are listed as four bearded students, namely: Yan, Yan, Ma, Tan, Yang and Xi Xiaobo.