The History and Origin of Chaozhou Opera

Chao Opera, also known as Chao Opera, Yin Chao Opera, Chao Dally and Bai Zixi, is mainly popular in Chaoshan dialect area, and it is an ancient local opera sung in Chaoshan dialect.

I. Brief description

Chao Opera, also known as Chao Opera, Yin Chao Opera, Chao Dally and Bai Zixi, is mainly popular in Chaoshan dialect area, and it is an ancient local opera sung in Chaoshan dialect.

Chaozhou Opera is mainly spread in Chaozhou-speaking areas in Guangdong and southern Fujian, and is also popular in Hongkong and Taiwan Province Province. It is often performed at temple fairs to show respect for the "host", and ordinary people also like to watch it in a very lively atmosphere, which makes the festival atmosphere more intense.

The formation and development of Chaozhou Opera has a history of over 430 years.

It is a branch of the Southern Opera in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, which gradually evolved from the Southern Opera in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, absorbed the specialties of Yiyang, Kunqu Opera, Pihuang, Bangzi and other operas, and combined with local folk arts such as Chaozhou music, and finally formed its own unique artistic form and style.

Chaozhou dialect was not used in the language of Chaozhou opera from the beginning.

It can be seen from the Ming Dynasty's block-printed Complete Works of Picking Flowers to Make Up the Golden Flowers that Chaozhou Opera at this time mainly sings in Chaozhou dialect, but some of its vocals and Daobai are marked with "official accent", which indicates that Chaozhou Opera may use "official accent" at first, then gradually reduce the weight of "official accent" and finally become completely localized.

Traditional dramas of Chaozhou Opera can be divided into two categories: one comes from southern opera legends and zaju, such as Pipa, Chai Jing, White Rabbit, Yue Bai, Pearl, Jiaopa, Fisherman's Songs and so on.

The other is local operas adapted from local folklore stories or facts, such as Li Jingji, Su six niang, Golden Flower Girl, Chai Fanghui, Longjing Crossing the River and so on.

Chaozhou opera has its own system and unique style.

Music singing is a comprehensive system of couplets and banqiang with music cards as the main part. So far, there is still a chorus form in which two or more people sing a song together and sing at the end of the chorus.

Singing is good at gentle and lyrical, and Doman's voice is tortuous and melodious.

The business of Chaozhou opera has developed from the birth, Dan, ugliness, purity, exterior, paste and ending of southern opera to the ten ugliness, seven ugliness, five birth and three purity, among which the performances of ugliness and Dan are more distinctive.

Famous actors in Chaozhou Opera are: Xie Dayue, Lu Yinci, Yin Xie, Qiguo Yang, Chen Hua, Huang Yudou, Hong Miao, Guo Shimei, Cai Jinkun, Li Youcun, Fan, Huang Ruiying, Huang Shengdian and Qing Ye.

Looking back on the prosperous period of Chaozhou Opera in 1950s and 1960s, we mainly benefited from a group of outstanding actors with good artistic skills, such as Wang Jinzhen in the famous work Sweeping the Window, Su six niang in Su six niang, and Chen Biniang in Ci Lang Zhou, etc. She Taijun in Hong Miao's Ten Debates on Yanglingpo: Wang Zuo played by Zhang Changcheng in Breaking Kaifeng; The death of Mrs. Zhu Chuzhen; Wu Lijun's An Ren role in Li Jing Ji: Fan, Xie, Ye Qingfa, etc. They are well-known outstanding actors in Chaoshan area and are deeply loved by Chaozhou opera audiences at home and abroad.

Since 1970s, Fang Zhanrong and Wu Linger have played Li Laosan and Mo Erniang in the firewood house fair. Guo Jianguang, Bao Zheng and Liu Zhiyuan played by Huang Shengdian in Shajiabang, Bao Gong's Compensation and Shu Hui; Chen Qinmeng plays Yuan Chonghuan in Yuan Chonghuan; Cai Minghui plays Cao Chun in Cao Chun Rushing into the Hall; Chen Xuexi plays Zhang Chunlang in "Zhang Chunlang's Bun" and Jia Yucun plays in the costume drama "Hulu Temple" recently exhibited in this province. There are also the Golden Boy, which plays the leading role in the modern Chaozhou drama Veterans Returning Home, and the rising star of Chaozhou drama, which plays the leading role in Fireworks Woman and Champion Lang. Wan Jiachun, played by Chen Xingxian in "Stabbing Liang Ji", left an unforgettable impression on Chaozhou opera audience.

Second, the development history

Chaozhou Music Class is popular in eastern Guangdong, southern Fujian, Hongkong, Taiwan Province Province and Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam in Southeast Asia.

Chaozhou Opera is a local opera that is sung in Chaozhou dialect after the Southern Opera of Song and Yuan Dynasties spread to Chaoshan area in eastern Guangdong, integrating and absorbing Chaoshan music and other folk arts.

In the Ming Dynasty, Dai Jing wrote in the first draft of "Customs" in Volume 18 of "Guangdong Tongzhi": "Tide customs mostly play with local accent.

"In the early Qing Dynasty, Qu Dajun wrote in" Guangdong New Language ":"Chaozhou Opera is sung by Chaozhou people with local accent.

1958 Cai Bojun, who sang in Chaozhou dialect, unearthed from the Ming tomb in Jieyang, 1975 Liu Xibi and Jin Chai, who were unearthed from the Ming tomb when Feng Tang in Chaozhou and Long built Xishan, are the cultural relics evidence of the influx of people in Ming Dynasty.

Third, artistic features

1, role

Chaozhou opera has a full range of trades, and its first play, Life, Dan, Quiet and Ugliness, is delicate and vivid. Its body work has strict procedural norms and freehand brushwork, and pays attention to the exertion of skills. Among them, Ugly Behavior and Hua Dan's performing arts are particularly rich, with unique styles and rich local colors.

From the performance point of view, life, Dan and ugliness have the most local characteristics in the foot color business of Chaozhou opera.

Sheng Dan's drama Sweeping the Window is regarded as a typical representative of China opera, which tells a story by singing and dancing. Clowns in Chaozhou opera can be divided into ten categories, among which clowns fans are famous all over the world.

In the old ugly drama Chai Fanghui, the clown's slide skill is unique to Chaozhou opera and enjoys a high reputation in the opera world.

In the past, Chaozhou Opera has always implemented children's music system, and Xiao Sheng, Tsing Yi and Hua Dan were all performed by children's artists. These artists grew up, their voices changed, and they were eliminated. This system has seriously hindered the development of Chaozhou opera.

After the founding of New China, the children's drama system was abolished, various reforms were carried out, and a large number of outstanding actors were trained, which made the ancient art of Chaozhou opera glow with new brilliance.

Step 2 sing

The true voice of Chaozhou Opera is mainly influenced by Yiyang and Kunqu Opera imported from other places, which is quite different from the falsetto singing of Beijing Opera and Cantonese Opera. Singing with the ancient song "Si Er" is full of charm.

Singing is a combination system of Qupai style and banqiang, which is mainly composed of Qupai combination. So far, it still retains the form of chorus. Two or three people sing a song or end a song, which has a unique style and strong expressive force.

The tunes of Chaozhou Opera were called "Chaoqiang" or "Chaodiao" in Ming Dynasty. There are two existing versions of Chaoshan dialect, namely, Reprinting Five-color Tidal Springs and Adding Poems to Goulan Beautiful Scenery in Northern Song Dynasty and New Thoughts on Wanli (158 1).

Litchi Ji carved by Wanli New Temple, edited by Li Dongyue, is a different performance with the same story content as Lijing Ji carved by Jiajing.

Jiajing's engraving "Li Jing Ji" has the words "super strong" or "all strong" in the suffix of the song name, which is a common script for two kinds of singing.

It is not unique that two voices share a script.

Chen Boqing's Complete Notes on Litchi, printed by Xin Mao, Shunzhi, Qing Dynasty, is a new publication and a general edition of Chaozhou and Quanzhou, which reflects some relations between Chaozhou Opera in eastern Guangdong and Liyuan Opera in southern Fujian in the historical development.

Among them, Huang Shengdian, a famous veteran of Chaozhou Opera, is the representative figure of Chaozhou Opera singing. His singing is loud and passionate, which has won the admiration of countless audiences and experts. At the first China Drama Festival, he won wide acclaim for playing the role of the emperor in Zhang Chunlang's Haircut, and his singing was rated as "Super Golden Tenor" by experts.

The "help tone" of early Chaozhou opera, that is, when the actors on the stage sing the most wonderful fragments, all the voices in the background "sing together" is very rare in other operas and is one of the characteristics of Chaozhou opera.

3. Music

Chaozhou opera music belongs to a set of music cards, singing North and South songs, with beautiful tunes, lightness and delicacy, and being good at lyricism.

After the mid-Qing dynasty, it absorbed board cavity music, which was flexible, diverse and colorful.

There are more than 200 traditional tunes and more than 0/000 pieces of music in Chaozhou Opera, which are important materials for studying the tunes of China opera.

The accompaniment part retains more ancient music in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and constantly absorbs Chaozhou gongs and drums, temple fair music and folk tunes. Beautiful music tunes, harmonious orchestral music and percussion music, and good at expressing emotional changes.

With the development of the times and cultural exchanges, the accompaniment instruments of Chaozhou opera have been continuously developed and enriched.

Before the 1920s, there were only bamboo strings, suona, coconut trees and Qin Yue, and bamboo strings were the main musical instruments.

In the 1920s and 1930s, bamboo strings were replaced by two strings. Yueqin was replaced by dulcimer, and a big flute and a small flute were added.

Since the 1940s, erhu, pipa and Hu Da have been added.

Chaozhou opera has many tunes and changeable plates, such as the second board, the second board and the third board.

According to the different combinations of musical instruments, traditional operas are divided into big gong opera, small gong opera and Su Gong opera. The Da Gong Opera is the most distinctive and oldest, and it is good at expressing a low atmosphere and sad feelings. Xiao Gong is brisk, Su Gong is solemn.

Fourth, traditional plays and representative figures.

Traditional Chaozhou opera can be divided into two categories. First, it originated from Southern Opera in the Song and Yuan Dynasties and legendary zaju in the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, such as Pipa, White Rabbit, Broken Kiln, and Jade Hairpin. These plays have elegant dictionaries, simple music and meticulous workmanship. First, plays based on local folklore or local facts, such as Litchi Story, Su six niang, Golden Flower Girl, Dragon Boat Crossing, etc., have vivid stories, elegant and popular operas and rich local colors.

The existing scripts of early Chao Opera include the manuscript of Chai Jin Collection written by Liu Xibi in the seventh year of Xuande in Ming Dynasty (1432).

Chaozhou opera can also be combined with the needs of the times to compile some plays closely related to real life. For example, during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, a large number of repertoires reflecting the current events of the Anti-Japanese War appeared, such as Documentary of Lugouqiao and The Story of Han Fuju, which played a positive role in inspiring people to join War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.

The famous screenwriter of Chaozhou Opera is Yin Xie, whose representative works include Qin Fenglan, Zhao Shaoqing and Being a Family Member. There are Wu Shiwu, Lin Xianyu, Hong Xun, Jennifer, etc. Everyone has some masterpieces handed down from generation to generation.

Famous artists include Cai and Hong Miao.

Present situation of verbs (abbreviation of verb)

Chaozhou Opera is a vivid example of the survival of China ancient operas on the stage, and it is one of the representatives of the excellent cultural expressions of the Chinese nation, with profound historical significance and high aesthetic value.

After 1990, Chaozhou opera was restricted by the market economy and impacted by various modern literary forms, with reduced investment, brain drain and declining artistic level. Excellent traditional performing arts are on the verge of extinction and in a difficult state of development, which urgently needs protection and support.

The state attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage. On May 20th, 2006, Chaozhou Opera was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

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The formation and development of Chaozhou Opera has a history of over 400 years.

It combines local folk arts, such as Chaozhou music, and finally forms its own unique artistic form and style.

It is not only deeply loved by people in Chaozhou-speaking areas of Guangdong and Fujian, but also very popular and influential in Hongkong, Taiwan Province Province and Southeast Asia.

On May 20th, 2006, Chaozhou Opera was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

It is highly protected by the state.

Chaozhou opera is an important carrier of Chaoshan culture and a representative local opera.

The artistic charm and cultural taste of Chaozhou opera are extremely important components of Chaoshan traditional culture.

This is what we are doing in order to promote Chaoshan culture, make Chaozhou opera bloom more brilliantly and let everyone enjoy their hometown culture online.