China's traditional opera performance is one of its main businesses, which generally refers to male roles other than cleanliness and ugliness. The name "Sheng" was first seen in the Southern Opera of Song and Yuan Dynasties, referring to the hero in the play, which was equivalent to the Zaju at the end of Yuan Dynasty. According to the character attributes, personality characteristics and performance characteristics, it can be roughly divided into old students, young students, international students, late students, martial arts students and infants.

2. Danxing

Danxing has Zheng Dan, Huashi, Hua Dan, Beijing Opera Blues, Udan and Lao Dan. They are generally dignified, serious and decent people. Most of them are good wives and mothers, or good wives and mothers in the old society. Generally, the age ranges from youth to middle age. The performance in Tsing Yi is characterized by a singer, with relatively small movements and relatively stable movements.

3. Clear lines

Commonly known as the painted face, marked by patterned faces outlined in various colors, it shows rough, strange and heroic characters in personality and temperament. This kind of characters should have broad timbre, strong singing, thick and vivid action modeling lines, open and close freely and magnanimous. Such as Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Cao Cao, Bao Zheng and Lian Po.

4. The last line

At the end of the line, most of them play men over middle age. Divided into old students, late students and outsiders. In addition to being a newspaper reporter, he introduced the plot outline and the theme of the play, and also played a secondary role in the play with low social status. The "late" line of Kunqu Opera was developed after the foot color system of Nanqu Opera in Song, Yuan and Yuan Dynasties. According to the way of Nankun, three families, including the old man, the deputy end and the foreigner, took shape in the middle of Qing Dynasty.

5. Ugly behavior

It is a comedy character, drawing a face between the bridge of the nose and the eye socket, and playing a funny role. Generally speaking, they don't repeat singers in their performances, but mainly speak clearly and fluently. They are divided into two branches: Wen Chou and Wu Chou. The classification of character industry in traditional Chinese opera is different in different operas. The above classification is mainly based on the classification of Beijing opera, because Beijing opera combines the essence of many operas.