The Formation of Folk Opera

Folk opera is formed on the basis of folk songs, folk dances and folk rap, and its formation process is a process of synthesizing various folk inherent arts.

Generally speaking, there are two main ways to form folk operas. One is developed from folk songs and dances, in which folk operas, which are mainly songs, are derived from folk songs, and most of them absorb the tunes and lyrics of folk songs, and then add characters to expand the plot and develop into small drama days, such as Jinzhong Yangko "Stealing Pumpkin", "Selling Yuanxiao", Shaanxi Yangko "Baldy Sleeping in Bed" and Shanxi Errentai, all of which are fictional characters based on the original folk songs. Dance-based plays are often created and processed on the basis of folk dances, expanding the road of play and moving performances. For example, the original form of "Zuo Quan Flower Opera" in Shanxi Province is that people stand in the same place on the fifteenth day of the first month and watch the social fire while dancing and singing, with the aim of praying for happiness and entertaining the gods; In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, simple story lines were added and a large number of folk tunes were absorbed, which made it take shape as a flower play. The other is developed from folk rap by changing the narrative style of folk rap into the first-person narrator. Specifically, most of the dramas with strong narrative style absorb the characteristics of folk rap, and turn the narrative style into the first-person narrator. Instead of rappers jumping around to replace various roles, they play characters instead of characters. Dramatic factors are increasing day by day and become a new performing art, such as "Errenzhuan" in Northeast China, "Lu Opera" in Shandong and "Xi Opera" in Jiangsu, all of which are folk operas formed on the basis of folk rap.