Ningbo Folk Art 3

1. Ningbo Opera

Ningbo Opera is a local traditional theater in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, and one of the national intangible cultural heritages. Ningbo opera is a local opera sung in the Ningbo dialect of Zhejiang Province, the music and sound belong to the beach spring. 1938, this opera was officially known as the "Ningbo Opera" or "Improvement of the Ningbo Opera".

Ningbo Opera has an exaggerated and humorous style of performance, and is good at expressing real and subtle emotions. Yong Opera has gone through the process of acting in Qing costume and cheongsam, and is good at acting in modern opera, drawing its creative materials directly from social life, and focusing on life-oriented performances.

2. Yao Opera

Yao Opera is a local traditional drama in Yuyao City, Zhejiang Province, one of the national intangible cultural heritages. Yao Opera is an opera genre popular in Yuyao, Cixi, Ningbo, Zhoushan, Shangyu and Shao. It was developed on the basis of folk songs and dances such as "Horse Lantern", "Dry Boat" and "Tea Basket".

Beginning as a "pair play" close to rap, it was called "lamp play" or "lamp class" in the area of Yuyao. Due to the Yao opera language common, fluent and clear, singing near the spoken word, often one, twenty sentences of lyrics along with the song, a breath of fresh air, transport cavity natural, like a bird language, so there is a "parrot song class," as the name.

3, Ninghai Pingtiao

Ninghai Pingtiao, Ninghai, Zhejiang Province, is a local traditional theater, one of the national intangible cultural heritage.

Ninghai Pingtong originated in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, popular in the vicinity of Ningbo, has a history of three to four hundred years. Ninghai Pingtong belongs to the branch of Xinchang tune, which has the characteristics of high pitch and gentle voice, singing with many gangs, gongs and drums to help the festival, and no custodian strings, and its gangs have various forms, such as mixed gangs, clear gangs, full sentence gangs, fragment gangs, and one-word gangs, and so on.

4, Simei South words

Simei South words, commonly known as "Simei instrument", "Ningbo instrument", is one of the local traditional Chinese opera in Zhejiang Province.

SiMing NanYu is a playful song sung in the Ningbo dialect. In the early days, it was sung in separate roles according to the roles of Sheng, Dan, Jings, and Mou, but later it developed into a piece with one person playing the three-stringed instrument, one person playing the yangqin accompaniment, and two or three people using the pipa, erhu, etc. to accompany the song. The traditional repertoire of the opera is long, with more than thirty representative pieces, including "Pearl Tower", "Jade Dragonfly" and "Double Haircut".

5, Ningbo walking book

Ningbo walking book, also known as the "Lotus Book" "Plowshare Book", is one of the traditional local opera in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province.

The Ningbo Walking Book has colorful tunes and unique accompaniments. The content is close to life, the words and phrases are easy to understand, and the singing is simple, there is talking and singing, singing and talking, supplemented by physical action, the performance is full of the flavor of life. It is sung in Ningbo dialect and has strong local characteristics. Representatives of the repertoire are "Big Red Robe", "Green Robe", "Ying Liezhuan" and so on.