What do you mean, a white-faced kid?

Xiao Sheng, a white face, is one of the roles in traditional China opera, which refers to playing a young man. According to different characters, it is generally divided into: doll life, poor life, fan life, gauze hat life, feather life and so on. Small white-faced students are characterized by not growing beards and generally looking handsome.

Xiao Sheng is also divided into two categories: civilians and soldiers. Wen Ba is divided into several categories: robe belt, numerous sheng, sheng, poor sheng and so on. A young man in a robe can also be called a young man in a gauze hat, playing a young man who is generally an official. Most of these characters are literati. After their performance, they can neither be murderous nor rude and naive, but they look quite naive and lively. That won't do.

Besides Wen, there is Wu. Some martial arts students were born and played by Zi Ling. There are two kinds of pure martial arts students, one is a martial arts student in long clothes, such as Yang Zaixing in Zhentanzhou and Xiaoshanghe, and Zhao Yun in Panhe War and Borrowing Zhao Yun, all of which belong to this role.

There is also a kind of martial arts bunt, that is, wearing short clothes. From the point of martial arts, it is similar to wusheng, but singing and speaking plainly are all done by niche method, that is, niche combines true and false sounds. In the frame and modeling of some works, it is also different from Wusheng.

Singing Characteristics of Xiao Sheng with White Face

The biggest feature of the performance is that singing is a combination of true and false voices. Generally speaking, the falsetto is sharp, thin and high, and the voice sounds younger, which is different from the old students in sound. Adopting such a voice mode is to show that the role played by this industry is all young people.

But the falsetto used by the minority is different from the falsetto used to play female roles. If Xiao Sheng uses the same falsetto as Dan Dan, it is wrong. Although Xiao Sheng's singing method also uses falsetto, it should be stiff, vigorous, broad and bright, which sounds crisp, but not gentle and lovely, very vigorous, but not rude. It is not easy to master this singing and reading method. Therefore, Peking Opera Xiao Sheng has always been an industry with fewer talents.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Xiao Sheng (drama role business)