What are the Four Artistic Means of Chinese Opera?

Singing, reciting, acting and fighting are the four artistic means of Chinese opera performance, and also the four basic skills of opera performance.

Singing: refers to singing, reading: refers to the musical recitation, the two constitute one of the two major elements of song and dance opera performance art "song"; do: refers to the dance of the physical movements, fight: refers to the martial arts and the skills of tumbling, the combination of the two, constituting the other major element of the "dance". The two are combined to form another major element of "dance".

Singing is one of the main artistic means of opera, and the first step in learning to sing is to shout and sing, to expand the range and volume, to exercise the endurance and timbre of the singing voice, to separate the four sounds of yin and yang, the sharp and round, the clear and turbid, and the five sounds of the four calls, and to practice biting the words, returning to the rhymes, spouting, and moistening the cavity and other skills; however, it is even more important to be adept at the use of vocal skills to express the characters' personalities, feelings, and states of mind, and to express the characters' artistic infectiousness, and to express the people in the play's artistic and artistic impacts. The most important thing is to use vocal skills to express the character, feelings and state of mind of the characters.

The rosary and the singing complement each other and are important artistic means to express the thoughts and feelings of the characters. Actors from childhood to practice the basic skills, reading is also one of the required courses. Opera chanting can be roughly divided into two categories, namely rhyme white and scattered white, are through the artistic refinement of the language, with rhythm and musicality, resonant and pleasing to the ear, and sung in coordination with each other.

Doing work refers to performance skills in general, and generally refers specifically to choreographed physical movements, which is one of the main signs that opera is different from other performing arts. Actors in the creation of roles, hands, eyes, body, steps have a variety of programs, beard, plume, hair, water sleeves also have a variety of techniques, the flexible use of these programmed dance vocabulary, in order to highlight the character of the character, age, identity characteristics, and to make their own artistic image more successful. Do is not pure technical performance, but each characteristic of the connotation and appearance, a hand, a foot, both the inner experience, but also through the appearance of the performance, internal and external integration, handy, all for the shaping of the image service.

Fighting is another important part of the physical movements of opera, which is the dance of traditional martial arts and a highly artistic refinement of the fighting scenes in life. It is generally categorized into two main types: handle work and blanket work. Not only do you have to have a deep foundation, but you must also be good at using these extremely difficult skills to accurately display the character's mental outlook and demeanor.

Singing, reading, doing and fighting are special artistic means of opera performance, and the organic combination of the four constitutes the characteristics of opera expression, which is an important symbol of opera different from other stage arts.