What are the characteristics of Yangzhou's ancient paintings?

Although Yangzhou ancient painting opera is a local opera, it has distinct artistic characteristics, such as the compatibility and uniqueness of music, parody and comedy of performing arts, diversity and secularity of content. Influenced by geographical factors, audience demand and artistic atmosphere, Yangzhou ancient painting plays have formed these artistic characteristics. Mainly includes:

1, style features:

The performance style of ancient painting opera is mostly comedy, which will highlight the effect of comedy in composition, script creation and actor performance. When writing a script, most people will design coincidences and misunderstandings in the plot, thus putting the characters in the comedy into complex contradictions to express the theme of the performance and reflect the essence of life.

2. Stage features:

Most of the stage performances of ancient painting operas are mainly dance. In terms of dance performances, we inherited Hua Gun, towel dance and fan dance from folk songs and dances, and also extracted some distinctive and expressive performances from our working life. Most of the music in the opera performance of ancient paintings is lively and expressive.