My old friend, who is an official in Beijing, seems to be acting every day, but he puts aside the great event of relaxation.
Once you understand Beijing Opera, everything is easy. -Liu Changqing in the Tang Dynasty, "Luoyang main book branch uncle, Yi Chengen to choose words".
Once you are engaged in Peking Opera, you will feel that everything in the world is very simple and easy to do.
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1, the expression of Peking Opera
The four artistic skills of Beijing opera performance: singing, reading, doing and playing are also the four basic skills of Beijing opera performance.
Singing refers to singing, while reciting refers to musical chanting, which complement each other and form a "song", which is one of the two major elements of the performing arts of singing, dancing and Peking Opera. Doing refers to the body movements, fighting and tumbling skills of dance, which are combined with each other to form a "dance", which is one of the two major elements of the performing arts of song, dance and Beijing opera.
Opera actors should be trained from these four aspects since childhood, although some actors are good at singing (singing to the old age), some are mainly engaged in work (Hua Dan), and some are mainly engaged in martial arts (Jason Wu).
But every actor must have four basic skills: singing, reading, doing and acting. Only in this way can we give full play to the artistic characteristics of Beijing opera. Better express and portray all kinds of characters in the play. Beijing opera is a highly comprehensive art, with singing, dancing, dialogue, martial arts and various symbolic movements.
2. Classification of Peking Opera
The classification of Peking Opera is mainly based on the characters' personality characteristics besides their natural attributes (gender, age) and social attributes (identity, occupation).
The old saying of "Seven Lines and Seven Subjects" in Peking Opera Club: Seven lines are healthy line, Dan line (also known as professional line), clean line, ugly line, miscellaneous line, martial line and popular.
Everything on the stage of Beijing opera does not appear according to the true colors of life. The roles on the stage of Peking Opera do not appear according to the original appearance of people in life, but according to the gender, personality, age, occupation and social status of the roles they play.
Some artistic exaggerations have been made in makeup and clothing, so the roles on the stage are divided into four categories: life, Dan, cleanliness and ugliness. These four special terms in Peking Opera are called "Shang". ?
(1) students
Male positive roles can be divided into three categories: old (two-person-turned-old, redone-old, and martial arts-oriented), young (long martial arts, short martial arts, monkey-playing), young (fan-born, pheasant-tailed, poor, young), red and baby. ?
(2) Denier
The female positive roles are collectively called Tsing Yi (Zheng Dan), Hua Dan, Gui Mendan, Peking Opera Blues, Udan and Cai Dan. ? [5]?
(3) Net
Commonly known as the painted face, most of them play some male roles with special personality, quality or appearance. The makeup mask has a loud voice and a rough style. "Net" can be divided into face singing, face singing (duet, called copper hammer blackhead), shelf flower (heavy work), five or two flowers, beating flowers and oil flowers (called wool net).
(4) Ugliness
Play a comedy role, because put a small piece of white powder on the bridge of the nose, commonly known as little face. It can be divided into Wen Chou (ugly square scarf, ugly robe, ugly old age, ugly clothes, and also as a colorful Dan and a woman) and Wu Chou (also known as jumping freely). Every profession has a performance program, and singing, reading and acting have their own characteristics.