What are the characteristics of Sichuan Opera?

1. Singing tunes

Sichuan Opera consists of five tunes: Kunqiang, Gaoqiang, Huqin, Danxi and Dengdiao. Among them, except for the lighting system that originated from the local area, the rest were introduced from other places. These five kinds of tunes and the musical forms such as gongs and drums, suona tunes, and piano and flute tunes that accompany the five tunes.

2. Jobs

Sichuan Opera is divided into five jobs: niche, female role, raw role, painted face, and clown. Each profession has its own system of exercises and procedures, especially niche and clown. The performances of the male and female roles are the most distinctive. They have many outstanding creations in drama expression techniques and performance techniques, which can fully embody the aesthetic characteristics of Chinese opera of virtual reality and freehand expression.

3. Costumes

There are many kinds of costumes in Sichuan Opera, such as python robes, cushions, official clothes, pleats, etc., all of which correspond to relatively fixed roles. There are strict rules about which role should wear what clothes. . Theater troupes have always had a strict and detailed classification of costumes, with so-called "coat" cabinets and "secondary clothes" cabinets. Coats are the clothes worn by emperors, generals, concubines, cabinet ministers, etc. in the play, including python robes, official clothes, blue shirts, etc.; second clothes.

4. Makeup

Before the performance, Sichuan Opera actors have to paint various patterns on their faces with different colors to show the identity, appearance and personality characteristics of the characters. Historically, there were no full-time facial makeup artists in Sichuan Opera, and the actors drew their own facial makeup. On the premise of maintaining the basic characteristics of the characters in the play, actors can creatively draw facial makeup according to their own characteristics to achieve the effect of attracting the audience's attention.

5. Musical Instruments

Sichuan Opera gongs and drums are an important part of Sichuan Opera music. There are more than 20 kinds of musical instruments used in it. The commonly used ones can be shortened to small drums, hall drums, large gongs, large cymbals, and small gongs (also called hinges), collectively called "five directions". Adding string instruments and suona are the six directions. Snare conductor. This is a light band that goes to perform in rural areas. There are about three hundred gongs and drums.

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Protection of Sichuan Opera:

1. Innovation

The Tongnan Opera Association maintains the performance of traditional plays, Together with the County Procuratorate, they created and premiered "Feelings" to "anti-corruption in Sichuan Opera", which is nothing short of a great creation. The Tongnan County Party Committee and County Government regard the inheritance and innovation of Sichuan Opera as an important part of the construction of socialist spiritual civilization and new rural construction. They not only include it in the cultural construction plan, but also set the direction and requirements, and are willing to invest and encourage innovation.

2. Performance

December 27, 2015, hosted by the Sichuan Provincial Spiritual Civilization Office, Sichuan Provincial Department of Culture, Sichuan Provincial Department of Education, Sichuan Provincial Art Research Institute, Sichuan Provincial The "First Sichuan Province Primary and Secondary Schools Sichuan Opera Learning and Popularization Exhibition" hosted by the Sichuan Opera Theater, the Sichuan Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center, and the Chengdu Municipal Education Bureau was held at the Sichuan Opera Theater.

3. Preservation

In order to better inherit the art of Sichuan Opera, the precious heritage of Sichuan Opera repertoire can be inherited and preserved and passed on to future generations. A series of work has been carried out to organize, preserve and publish the traditional Sichuan Opera repertoire. Among them, "Collection of Traditional Sichuan Opera Repertoires" has been compiled and published in 15 volumes since its publication in 2009.

4. Protection

The Sichuan Provincial Academy of Arts has established an intangible cultural heritage Sichuan Opera teaching and display base, and awarded 10 troupes the title of "National Intangible Cultural Heritage Sichuan Opera Learning and Display Base" ”, which will facilitate the inheritance and protection of Sichuan Opera to be carried out more comprehensively throughout Sichuan. The "Sichuan Opera River Art Rescue and Protection" project was launched.

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