Four basic skills of traditional Chinese opera performance

Singing, reading, doing and acting are the four artistic means of traditional Chinese opera performance.

1. The first step in learning singing skills is to shout and hang your voice, enlarge the range and volume, exercise the endurance and timbre of your voice, and practice the skills of articulation, rhyme, spouting and moistening your cavity respectively. When an actor has mastered all this, it is more important to be good at using vocal skills to express the character, emotion and mental state of the character.

2. Peking Opera has a certain musicality and sense of rhythm, and it is a processed artistic language, which is convenient to coordinate with singing. Singing white and singing complement each other, which is an important artistic means to express people's thoughts and feelings. Traditional Chinese opera singers have been practicing basic skills since childhood, and reciting white is also one of the compulsory courses. After mastering the pronunciation, strength, brightness and other elements.

We must also properly handle the changes of priorities, cadence and cadence according to the characteristics of the characters and the development of the plot, so as to achieve an artistic realm of pleasing to the eye and vivid timbre.

3. "Doing" is the general name of dancing body movements, and it is the life movement of the processed body. Through the flexible use of hands (gestures), eyes (eyes), body (figure) and steps (footwork). The character image and temperament have been improved.

In Beijing Opera, when the drama conflict intensifies and people's emotions fluctuate, the scope of the works increases and the efforts of the works become more exaggerated. Doing work usually refers to acting, usually refers to dancing body movements. This is one of the main signs that traditional Chinese opera is different from other performing arts.

4. Fighting is a kind of dance in traditional martial arts, which is used to express fighting life or specific life situations, such as falling, struggling and syncope. Those who use ancient weapons such as knives, spears, swords and halberds to fight or dance alone are called "weapons". Those who fall on the blankets are called "war blankets".

There is also a set of continuous martial arts skills, such as "control", "walking while walking" and "riding a horse", which are generally used to render the fighting atmosphere and the mental outlook of heroic soldiers.

Extended data:

China traditional drama consists of literature, music, dance, fine arts, martial arts, acrobatics and performing arts, with more than 360 kinds. It is characterized by combining a variety of art forms into a standard, reflecting their respective personalities in the same attributes.

China opera, Greek tragedy and comedy, and Indian Brahmin opera are called the three oldest drama cultures in the world. After a long period of development and evolution, China Opera Garden centered on "Peking Opera, Yue Opera, Huangmei Opera, Pingju Opera and Henan Opera" has gradually formed.

There are many kinds of plays in China. According to incomplete statistics, there are about 360 kinds and tens of thousands of traditional operas in ethnic areas of China.

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