What roles are there in Beijing Opera?

In Beijing opera, women are collectively called "Dan", which can be subdivided into many occupations according to the age and personality of the role. The woman who plays a well-off family and has status is called "Zheng Dan", and Zheng Dan is commonly known as "Tsing Yi" in Peking Opera, which is named after Zheng Dan's character who often wears a blue robe.

Tsing Yi's performance is solemn and demure, beautiful, elegant and gentle, and mainly focuses on singing. Generally speaking, Tsing Yi's singing is beautiful and delicate. "Hua Dan" in "Danxing" mostly plays an innocent and lively or dissolute and provocative Tsing Yi woman, and pays attention to work and study.

"Wu Dan" and "Beijing Opera Blues" are equivalent to martial arts students professionally, and they all play young and middle-aged women with high martial arts. They dressed up as martial arts students and wore clothes. Most of them play female Xia, female generals and even female fairies.

The performances of Wu Dan and Beijing Opera blues are often accompanied by lively gongs and drums, which set off the atmosphere on the field. "Lao Dan" refers to playing the role of an elderly woman in the play. In order to highlight the characteristics of the elderly, we walk with a steady pace of eight characters, the colors of our clothes are dark Qiu Xiangse and dark green, and we sing with real voices.

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Fu Jin: "Peking Opera is one of the important symbols of China's cultural tradition. It is the most important drama in the "local drama era" and the product of the gradual decline of elegant culture in China culture as a whole.

Compared with Kunqu opera, which transcends the aesthetic taste of a specific region, it is more the product of a specific regional culture; Compared with the literati interest represented by Kunqu Opera, it is closer to the bottom and folk interest, and the repertoire system of Peking Opera fully embodies the folk or grassroots characteristics of its historical narrative. "

Jean jeunet, a French absurd dramatist: the theme, structure and expression of Beijing opera are extremely exquisite.

Edward Gordon Craig, a famous British drama theorist and choreographer: Chinese Peking Opera has become an independent and excellent art form more than any other western drama.

Treja Iacov, a famous playwright in the former Soviet Union: China's plays contain the seeds of a rational and international drama, and its precise methods can be used to awaken and guide the honed masses to strive for a better world.

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