The dramatic features of Xuzhou Bangzi Opera

The performance of Xuzhou Bangzi Opera is based on the tradition of China ancient opera singing and dancing, combined with its own ritual rules, with a whole set of literature, music, dance and skills. The performance is mainly virtual, combining reality with reality, emphasizing the truth of feelings, with strong sense of rhythm, rigorous program, high skill and sincere, simple and distinctive regional characteristics. More use of "literary drama and martial arts singing", with long arias to shape the characters, to push the plot to a climax. The division of labor between life and ugliness is more detailed, and what kind of voice determines what kind of business, especially the black face and the red face are generous and vigorous, high-pitched and powerful, and the combination of true and false voices has the artistic characteristics of enthusiasm, frankness and high-pitched.

The purpose of Xuzhou Bangzi's drama is to describe major historical events, reflect political and military struggles, and show the achievements of heroes. The most prominent dramas and tragedies are battles, robes and dramas, such as "Four Signs", "Four Spears" and "Eighteen Books Old and New".

The music of Xuzhou Bangzi Opera belongs to the board style, which is mainly composed of four boards: adagio, flowing water, bar and non-board, and there are about 300 kinds of music tunes. The acoustic cavity mainly comes from Shaanxi and Shanxi Bangzi. From the aspects of mode, melody rhythm, language rhyme and singing style, it shows that Xuzhou dialect is between Zhongzhou language family and wuyue language family, which has a unique style of thick rhyme in the Central Plains and soft rhyme in Wu Yue, and has obvious local characteristics. It is divided into three parts: aria music, Qupai music and percussion music, which express certain emotions and contents with plate changes.