The Culture of Hebei Opera? The Oddball? -Tang Opera

Tang opera, also known as the shadow play, was born in Tangshan City, Hebei Province in the 1960s, a new type of opera, Tangshan shadow play singing, music, based on the absorption of Beijing Opera performing arts nurtured, is unique in China's opera and music arts new type of opera, for which by the people of the country's favorite.

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The development of Tang opera

The development process of Tang opera can be roughly divided into three periods of conception, formation and development. From the late 1910s to the late 1950s, it was the gestation stage of Tang opera. Because the shadow singing is very expressive, and has a deep mass base in the rural areas of Jidong. During the War of Liberation, some revolutionary literary groups, such as the Jidong Lunan Literary Troupe and the Twelve Prefectural Committees' Literary Troupe, in order to cooperate with the War of Liberation, began to put some of the shadow puppets on the stage to reflect the reality of the struggle and the modern characters. After the founding of the country, in the amateur literary stage, shadow puppets are used in small opera, small singing situation, it is more common.

Although this is not yet a Tang opera, just as the opera and song music material is used, but this has laid the foundation for the Tang opera, for the shadow singing comprehensive stage art took the first step.

From 1959 to 1963, it was a period of formation and refinement of shadow singing into Tang opera. The full-scale stage production of shadow singing was carried out at the Tangshan Opera School. The initial experimental repertoire was "Look at the Family Book" (a twist of "Five Fronts Meeting") and "The Book of the Golden Fish". After the initial results, and then through the "Broken Bridge", "Jingde Weeping Horse", "Xianglopa" and other plays for experimentation, and the experimental repertoire to Changli, Luanxian, Leting and other counties to perform, won the warm welcome of the masses. Since then, Tang opera was born.

Tang opera was framed as "Jidong anti-party group of imperial tools", forced to withdraw. 1970, in the crowd's strong demand, renamed "shadow play" back on stage. The Central People's Broadcasting Station and Beijing Television successively broadcast the opera singing recordings to the whole country, and since then it has had an impact on the whole country. During this period, Leiting County also set up a professional theater troupe, and has created and performed the "Bohai Spring Tide", "sea red whistle", etc. July 28, 1976 Tangshan earthquake, the main cast of the Tang opera nearly half of the victims, so that the development of the Tang opera has been seriously impacted. 1979, the shadow play to restore the name of the Tang opera.

Tang Opera Characteristics

Tang Opera's main musical instrument is the copper cylinder four hu, cylinder length 15 centimeters, the diameter of six point six centimeters, belonging to the middle and high instruments. It is a medium-high soprano instrument that requires metal finger cuffs for playing, and has a beautiful and chic sound, long for lyricism, but low in volume. The configuration of other instruments is not fixed, but the principle is to emphasize the Sihu. The percussion instruments of Tang Opera are basically the same as those of Beijing Opera, except that the individual gongs and drums have retained the tradition of shadow puppets.

Over the past 40 years, Tang Opera has accumulated more than 60 repertoires, including Broken Bridge, Blood Cleansing Sword of Mandarin Ducks, Red Cloud Cliff, Flying Swallows in the Wind, Folks in the Countryside, Jingde Weeping for Horses, Fragrance Ropa, Female General of the Yang Clan, Tan Ji'er, Shao Yulan Saves Her Husband, Zhao Pan'er, Zhang Sister Stealing Treasure, Eyan Fu, Qingfeng Mountain, and also organized and transplanted the modern plays Red Cloud Cliff, Red Cloud Cliff, Eyan Fu and Qingfeng Mountain. It has also staged and transplanted modern plays such as Red Cloud Cliff, Sister Jiang, Three Generations, and Rainbow.

Tang Opera's singing voice and line

Tang Opera singing voice has a wide range of sound, from the board, divided into a board with three eyes of the head of the board, a board with two eyes of the board, a board with three eyes of the board, no board without eyes of the board, no board, no eyes of the loose board. In terms of modal structure, it is basically divided into two major categories with Dan and Sheng as the boundaries. In terms of performance function, it is divided into five major chambers: the plain tone which is good at expressing euphemistic lyricism and writing scenes and narratives, the flower tone which is good at expressing joy and cheerfulness, the Hedong tone which is good at expressing deep thoughts and admiration, the sad tone which is good at expressing tearfulness and mournfulness, and the minstrel tone which is good at expressing agitation and excitement. In addition, there are also "three catching seven" (three three, four four, five five, six six, seven seven), "hard rut" (on the flat under the oblique) and so on, which are named because of the structure of the lyrics and the different rhymes of words.