Gansu Qin Opera is also called West Qin Opera. Qin Opera in Gansu has a long history. It has formed three art schools: Eastern, Southern and Central. Its stage atmosphere is warm and fiery. The actors advocate craftsmanship and pay attention to the application of performance skills. The style is concise and focused on the profession. The development of painted face art is inferior to Shaanxi Qinqiang in terms of singing. The singing style of Gansu Qinqiang is obviously different from that of Xifu Qinqiang.
Gansu Qin Opera has its own characteristics. It is another major genre different from Shaanxi Qin Opera. Its formation history is only about the same as that of Xi'an Luantan. Representative figures that have emerged include Xi Deyu and Wen Hanchen. , Geng Zhongyi, Li Duoshan, Li Yingdong, Yue Zhonghua, Chen Jingmin, etc., all have unique styles in style, and formed art schools such as "Xi School", "Geng School", etc., especially the facial makeup of "Geng School", which is famous Nationwide.
Qin Opera also has its own unique characteristics in performance, which are mainly reflected in: 1. The singing is high-pitched and exciting, full of emotion and strong changes. Many people in the south are not used to Qin Opera. They only think that Qin Opera is shouted straight at the throat, which sounds deafening. It is different from the slow, soft and gentle sounds of Yue Opera and Shanghai Opera in the south. This is the cultural difference between the north and the south. The scenery of Suzhou gardens with rockeries, green pools, winding corridors and railings, and small bridges with willows gives people a fresh and comfortable feeling, while the surging waves of the Yellow River, the peaks of Huashan Mountain, the snow of Qilian, and the flat sand of the vast sea in the northwest make people open-minded. Extremely inspiring. The feeling of climbing Mount Huashan is completely different from the feeling of visiting Jiangnan gardens. This difference in the natural environment did not only form in the past few hundred years, but existed thousands or tens of thousands of years ago. This accumulated and formed the different temperaments and aesthetic habits of people in the north and south. In terms of poetry, since ancient times, the South has been known for its graceful poetry, while the North has been known for its generous and tragic poems. Northerners rarely write lyrics based on folk songs. In the south, delicate ditties are popular, while in the north, high-pitched folk songs are popular. 2. The dance movements are rough and powerful, with large changes and heavy work. Such as driving, fighting, throwing, somersaults, etc., all have outstanding martial arts performance qualities. Of course, Qin Opera also has some dance routines that express the taste of life and graceful postures, but compared with other operas, it more prominently reflects the martial characteristics of Qin people. 3. Most of the traditional Qin Opera scripts depict wars and loyal ministers and good generals. It’s not that there are no other themes, but that other themes do not occupy a dominant position. Moreover, as mentioned above, there are many works that express war, oppose aggression, praise loyal ministers and martyrs, and praise upright style, and there are also serial dramas (such as "Feng Shen", "Countries", "Three Kingdoms", "Yang Family General", etc. It can be sung for many days, and Bao Gong's opera can also be a series). Others are smaller in number. There are some plays that are light-hearted and show the interest of life, but there are very few plays that express the lingering joys and sorrows in the whole play.