Shaanxi Opera is a local opera popular in the northwest provinces of China, which developed from the folk songs of Shaanxi and Gansu. Generally refers to the northern opera that bangzi sings. Also known as Shaanxi Bangzi and xi 'an Bangzi. This is an opera. Popular in the northwest of China. After the Ming Dynasty, it was formed on the basis of Shaanxi-Gansu folk songs.
Shaanxi opera is a kind of opera with a long history in the Bangzi opera system. The tone is strong and high. One of the oldest Han dramas in China began in the Western Zhou Dynasty, originated in Xifu and matured in Qin Dynasty. In 2006, it was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. Shaanxi opera can be divided into two ways: the west road flows into Sichuan to become a bangzi, and the east road is Shaanxi opera and Henan opera.
Characteristics of Shaanxi Opera:
As a local culture, the most striking feature of Shaanxi Opera is that the so-called singing is based on Shaanxi Guanzhong dialect, and at the same time, it combines some poems and songs of China during the Han and Tang Dynasties. The combination of these linguistic features and musical features forms the unique style of Shaanxi Opera, that is, high-pitched and passionate intonation, blunt pronunciation, tough and firm timbre and so on.
The rhythm of the lyrics of Qin opera is also very rich. The structure of lyrics is eternal, and the sentences of lyrics are long or short according to the needs of expressing ideological content. But its sentence patterns can basically be summarized as cross sentence, seven sentence, five sentence and prose sentence. There are cross sentences and seven sentences commonly used, that is, the words in the whole drama are arranged neatly like a Kubinashi rhyme poem.