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A Brief Introduction to China's Opera
Traditional Chinese opera is a traditional art of the Chinese nation, and it is an enduring wonder in traditional culture.

China opera is a combination of music, dance, literature, fine arts, martial arts, acrobatics and performing arts. China's traditional drama has a long history in China. In the long process of development, after more than 800 years of continuous enrichment, innovation and development. Paying attention to singing, doing, reading and playing is full of dance and high technology, which is different from other operas and becomes a complete art system of traditional Chinese opera.

There are many kinds of plays in China. According to incomplete statistics, there are about 360 kinds of operas and tens of thousands of traditional plays in China. Other famous operas include: Kunqu Opera, Hangzi Opera, Cantonese Opera, Huai Opera, Sichuan Opera, Qin Opera, Shanghai Opera, Shaanxi Opera, Han Opera, Hebei Bangzi, Henan Cantonese Opera, Henan Hangzi Opera, xiang opera Opera and Hunan Opera.

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Traditional Chinese opera is a unique title of China traditional drama. The first person who used the word "opera" in history was Song (1240- 13 19), who proposed "Yongjia Opera" in The Biography of the Poet Wu. What he said was "Southern Opera", "Drama" and "Yongjia Opera".

Since modern Wang Guowei, "drama" has been used as the general name of traditional drama culture in China.

The most striking and unique artistic feature of traditional Chinese opera is "Qu", which is mainly composed of music and aria. Distinguishing a local drama mainly depends on local languages such as tone, musical melody and aria, such as Sichuan Opera in Sichuan, Zhejiang Yue Opera in Guangdong, Henan Yu Opera, Shaanxi Qin Opera, Shandong Lu Opera, Fujian Min Opera, Hubei Han Opera and Hebei Yu Opera.

Traditional Chinese opera is one of the traditional arts in China. There are all kinds of interesting operas, including singing, dancing, talking, singing and martial arts. This is unique in the history of world drama. Its main features are, for example, Peking Opera, which is the representative work of China classical opera art, and one is that women dress up as men (it is very common for women to dress up as men in Yue Opera).

The second is to divide life, Dan, essence and ugliness into four major industries; Third, there is an exaggerated makeup art-Facebook; Fourthly, "costume" (that is, costumes and props of China traditional operas) basically have fixed styles and specifications; The fifth is to use "procedures" to implement.

China's national operas, from "Nuo Opera" in pre-Qin Dynasty, "Hundred Operas" in Han Dynasty, "Joining the Army" in Tang Dynasty, Zaju in Song Dynasty, Southern Opera in Southern Song Dynasty and Zaju in Yuan Dynasty, to the unprecedented prosperity of local operas in Qing Dynasty and the formation of Beijing Opera.

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