What are the types of opera in Anhui?

1, Huangmei Opera

Huangmei Opera, formerly known as Huangmei tune, tea-collecting opera, etc., originated in Huangmei, Hubei, and developed and expanded in Anqing, Anhui. Huangmei Opera and Beijing Opera, Yueju Opera, Pingju Opera? Yu opera and called "China's five major opera genres", but also the main local opera in Anhui Province, Hubei, Jiangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Hong Kong, Taiwan and other places also have professional or amateur performers of Huangmei Opera groups, by a wide range of popularity.

Huangmei Opera has a simple and fluent singing style, is characterized by bright and lyrical emotions, and has rich expressive power; the performances are simple and meticulous, and are known for their authenticity and liveliness. The song "Tianxian Match" has made Huangmei Opera popular in the north and south of the Yangtze River, and also has a high reputation overseas

2. Hui Opera

Hui Opera, one of the local opera styles in Anhui Province, China, was originally known as "Huizhou Tune" and "Erhuang Tune," which originated in the Ming Dynasty, and after 1949, it was designated as "Huizhou Tune. The original name of Huizhou Opera was "Huizhou Tune" and "Erhuang Tune", which originated in the Ming Dynasty and was named Huizhou Opera after 1949. There are 1,404 traditional repertoires of Huizhou Opera, and 753 archives have been preserved. The contents of the plays range from the strife of the Great Powers, important events in the palace, gods and ghosts, to folk life stories. The music and singing of Huizhou Opera are beautiful and complete.

Mainly divided into Qingyang cavity, Siping cavity, Huikun, blowing cavity, plectrum, Erhuang, Xipi, flowery cadences **** nine categories. And blowing cavity, plectrum, leather reed for the main cavity. The blowing cavity is soft and gentle, the plectrum is high and impassioned, and the leather reed is more popular and fluent, the performance art of Huizhou Opera is colorful and skillful.

The cultural drama is characterized by songs and dances, euphemisms and subtleties, and the martial arts drama is shocking to the audience with its ruggedness, fervor, deep kung fu, and skillfulness in high platforms and falls. Life drama attracts the audience with rich local flavor and funny, witty and language. The stage picture is colorful and has the beauty of sculpture modeling.

3, Qingyang cavity

Opera vocal cavity, also known as "Chizhou cavity", because of the production of Anhui Chizhou Qingyang and named. During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the Yiyang cavity of Jiangxi Province flowed into the Qingyang County area of the Chizhou Prefecture in southern Anhui Province, combining with the local language, folk operas (Kunshan cavity, Yuyao cavity, etc.), Jiu Huashan Buddhist customary raps, large-scale religious dramas, "Meilian", and folk songs and ditties to produce the Qingyang cavity.

Qingyang cavity is an important cavity after Yiyang cavity "easy cavity". At the end of the Ming and early Qing Dynasties, it flourished, and together with the Huizhou cavity, it was known as "the elegant tone of the Huizhou pool", and became the main voice of the country, and then declined at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

4, yuexi high cavity

Yuexi high cavity belongs to the Anqing City, Anhui Province, yuexi county local ancient rare species of theater, is the Ming Wanli years popular in the country's ancient Qingyang cavity legacy, the formation of which has been more than 400 years of history. History shows that in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the Qingyang cavity was introduced to Yuexi by the literati and merchants and Confucians, and the township clergymen concentrated on teaching and learning the high cavity in private schools, and organized classes and societies, and were active among the people. To the Qing Guangxu years, Qingyang cavity comprehensively integrated into the territory of the folk lights, combined with the local folk culture, breeding into Yuexi high腔.

5, Lu Opera

Lu Opera, formerly known as the "inverted seven plays", commonly known as "small plays", "prayer and sacrifice play", "small inverted plays "," small barbaric theater "," Lujiang play ". The origin of the name is not examined. Because of its prevalence in Anhui Province in the Anhui region, the ancient Luzhou (now Hefei City) Lujiang County, so on July 1, 1955, approved by the Anhui Provincial Committee of the Chinese ****, officially renamed Lu opera.

Lu opera is one of the main traditional local theater in anhui province. Popular in the Anhui territory of Anhui in Anhui Lujiang County, western Anhui, a large area along the river and part of the south of the Yangtze River. Lu Opera is in the Dabie Mountains around the mountain songs, the Huaihe River around the lantern song and dance on the basis of absorbing the gongs and drums of the book (door song), the Duan Gong theater, Hi Zi opera singing voice development and become.

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