What is the status of Shaanxi Opera in China traditional opera?

Shaanxi Opera is the ancestor of hundreds of traditional operas in China.

Shaanxi and Gansu belonged to Qin in ancient times, so they were called "Qin Opera". Because early Qin opera performances were often accompanied by jujube bangzi, it was also called "Bangzi Opera".

After the formation of Shaanxi Opera, it spread all over the country. Because of its mature and complete performance system, it has had different degrees of influence on local operas, and directly affected Bangzi Opera to become the ancestor of Bangzi Opera. The performance skills of Shaanxi Opera are simple, rough, bold and exaggerated, full of life flavor and rich in skills.

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As a local culture, Shaanxi Opera is characterized by so-called singing and reading based on Shaanxi Guanzhong dialect, and at the same time, it incorporates some poems and songs in the Han and Tang Dynasties.

The combination of these linguistic features and musical features * * * forms the unique vocal style of Shaanxi Opera, that is, the tone is high and passionate, the pronunciation is stiff, and the tone is tough and firm.

The language rhythm of Qin opera lyrics is also very rich. The structure of lyrics is eternal, and the sentences of lyrics are long or short according to the needs of expressing ideological content, but the sentence patterns can basically be summarized as cross sentences, seven sentences, five sentences and prose sentences.