Singing: refers to the singing of Beijing Opera.

Singing is an extension of speaking, just like people in reality: when they are calm and extremely angry; When you are happy and sad, the tone of your voice and the weight of your voice are different. When you are angry, you speak very quickly and loudly. However, when you are sad, it is very heavy and intermittent-the fast, slow, slow, urgent and evasive singing in Beijing opera is to express the mood of the characters in the play.

Nian: It refers to the speech in Beijing Opera, which is called Nian Bai in Beijing Opera terminology.

There are three kinds of chanting in Beijing Opera: Beijing White, Rhyme White and Dialect White. The characters who use Jingbai are generally Hua Dan and ugly; Yunbai is mostly used by old students, small students, old Dan, Tsing Yi and Hua Lian. There are some characters in Beijing Opera who use dialect white to highlight their personality characteristics or emphasize their local colors. Dialect white is a dialect with strong local characteristics. Dialect white is rarely used in Beijing Opera, and it only plays an embellishment role on individual characters.

doing: refers to the performance of Beijing opera, which can be summarized as hand, eye, body, method and step.

The purpose of "doing" in Beijing opera is to show the characters' personalities and portray the characters in the play, such as likui jy and Song Jiang, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun. These characters are very different in personality, which should be fully expressed through "doing" (of course, with "singing and reading").

Fight: refers to fighting and war scenes in Beijing opera.

In addition to technical factors, the "fighting" in Beijing Opera mainly shows the mental outlook and specific temperament of the characters. Before some generals in Beijing opera go on stage, there is often a stable boy who plays a small flip in a row, and then the generals go on stage; For another example, there are often generals who often kick the soldiers who come to report to the ground, all in order to show the mighty momentum of the generals and the different personalities of ordinary people.

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On the stage, actors can't mold characters without a series of performance means, which are usually summarized as four aspects: singing, reading, doing and playing, and they are customarily called "four merits".

an actor plays a role, and these four aspects must be organically combined and indispensable. Different plays and different trades have different emphases on singing, reciting, doing and playing. For example, "Lulin Club" is touching by singing, and "Noisy Chai" is convincing by doing; Xiaosheng, boudoir Dan sang again, official robe ugly, kicking shoes ugly redone, Wu Sheng, Wu Dan, Wu Jing played again, Hua Dan, Xiang Shan ugly sang and did equally, and so on.

The audience can appreciate the different feelings brought by the "Four Merits" from specific plays and roles.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Singing and Playing.