Characteristics of Cantonese Opera

The lyrics of Cantonese opera are easy to understand. Musically, folk songs are interspersed in the singing of "Bang Huang", and the singing method is changed from "falsetto" to "flat throat" (true voice). After repeated practice, they are all sung in Guangzhou dialect. The "mountain-crossing class" in rural activities retains the rough and simple characteristics of the early days. Many famous actors have unique skills in one foot, somersault, bun and pie mouth.

Wushu is based on "Nanquan", including strong and powerful target, hand boxing, Shaolin boxing, difficult chair skills and high platform skills. After the role appears, it is quite rare for a man to "jump" and a woman to "bend her back". The style of stage art is almost freehand brushwork. The scene is simple and the plot is stipulated in the play.

It is mainly displayed through a virtual performance program. When the program can't be displayed, the words "riverside" and "mountain" are written on the sign. The "Provincial and Hong Kong Large Class" performed in our city absorbed some artistic nutrition from drama, opera and film, and made considerable improvement in reflecting contemporary life and making the performance more lively.

Most of the repertoires are Shengdan dramas, which emphasize singing over doing, while literary dramas are more than martial arts dramas. However, there are also some new performance programs that refine and create from life, learn and absorb performance skills from movies and dramas, and form a free, flexible, popular and delicate performance style based on realism. The stage art emphasizes realism, and the scenery uses soft scenes with frames as the mainstay, as well as lighting and hard films. Clothing and makeup are gorgeous and ingenious.

Later, it was developed to install electric lights, movie costumes, helmets and props with institutional scenery. Voice characteristics: male singing is stable and low, sometimes slightly hoarse; The girl sings beautifully and roundly.

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Cantonese opera clothes

The costumes in the early stage of Cantonese opera mainly imitated the costume style of the Ming Dynasty and were improved into costumes. During the Qing Dynasty, Peking Opera became more and more popular, communication increased gradually, and the clothing system was gradually influenced by Peking Opera. At that time, the role of court officials was added to the new play, and some costumes also had the style of official uniforms in the Qing Dynasty. Traditional Peking Opera costumes can be divided into: python, lying, pleating, squatting and clothing.

However, traditional Cantonese opera costumes can be divided into: python, lying, pleating, opening, official costume, official costume and clothing. The material is mainly cloth, and later, film or bronze mirror is added to decorate the clothing. In the 1950s and 1960s, beaded clothing became very popular. According to the description of costumes in A Brief History of Cantonese Opera: "Guangdong still pays attention to embroidery and is expensive, so it is resplendent and magnificent, which is better than Beijing and Shanghai.

European and American films are imported, and they shine like mirrors and flowers. Pear gardens are famous for their adoption, fancy clothes, extravagant talk about modernity, striving for beauty and drifting. "This is how crazy. By the end of 1960s, embroidered clothing became popular, and it is still the mainstream in the theater.

Different industries need different clothes. For example, he usually plays a gentle role and sometimes shakes his sleeves, so long sleeves are called Wen sleeves. Xiaowu needs fighting, and short sleeves are convenient for actors to move, so short sleeves are also called Wu sleeves. Therefore, Wen Wusheng (Xiao Wujia Xiao Sheng) will wear Wu Wen sleeves.

Cantonese opera is popular in Guangdong, Guangxi, Taiwan Province, Hongkong and Macau. Cantonese opera is performed in Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, the United States, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Central and South America and other areas where overseas Chinese in Guangdong live in concentrated communities.

Cantonese opera is one of the main operas in southern China, which combines Haiyan, Yiyang, Kunshan, Bangzi and other operas that have flowed into Guangdong since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and absorbs the folk music of the Pearl River Delta, featuring Bangzi (Peking Opera is called Xipi) and Huang Er.

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