The gongs and drums of Sichuan Opera will present a gorgeous and powerful rhythm in the stage art of Sichuan Opera, helping the actors to enhance the visual and auditory effects of the audience and playing an important supporting role.

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The biggest feature of Sichuan Opera in terms of music singing is that it is composed of five different tunes: Kunqiang, Gaoqiang, Huqin, Danxi and Lantern Opera. They are very rare among Chinese dramas.

1. The singing tune of Kun Opera basically maintains the characteristics of the original "Su Kun":

The tune is melodious, the rhythm is slow, and the accuracy of pronunciation and enunciation is particularly important. The main accompaniment instrument is flute, and percussion must include gongs and cymbals. There are still more than a hundred singing tunes in existence, such as "Dian Jiang Lip", "Xiang Liu Niang", etc. Most of them have the same names as Gao Qiang tunes, but the tunes are different. When using qupai, it is mainly a suite of multiple pieces, which Sichuan Opera calls "Chengtang qupai".

2. Gaoqiang is the most distinctive and representative form of singing in Sichuan Opera. Its main features are:

The tune is free to perform and is a singing style without accompaniment. A pair of clappers and drums are used to adjust the rhythm. The high-pitched singing is high-pitched, loud, melodious, sonorous and powerful, and has supporting vocals to accompany it.

Percussion uses big gongs and big drums, which run through the whole music, so that the three parts of playing, playing and singing are closely integrated. During the singing process, recitatives and arias are used alternately, and the accompaniment and singing complement each other. Together with the close cooperation of gongs and drums, the stage atmosphere can change endlessly.

There are many high-pitched tunes, it is said that there are more than 300 tunes, and there are nearly a hundred commonly used tunes. The structure of Qupai includes three parts: starting cavity, upright column and ending. In addition, there are distinctions between high-pitched tunes, so-called heavy tunes, guilty tunes, drilling tunes, rolling tunes, flying tunes, babbling tunes, whining tunes and ah tunes.

The most distinctive feature of high-pitched music is its accompanying vocals. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the singing of Sichuan Opera was mainly led by the drummer, with other musicians supporting the singing. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, a team of female vocalists with better voices were specially equipped. Support can set the tone, describe the environment, create the stage atmosphere, remind the characters of the play's inner feelings, and represent a third party's evaluation of the characters in the play.

In addition, Sichuan Opera performance also has a unique skill - face changing. The facial makeup of Sichuan Opera can be changed into more than ten kinds of facial makeup continuously, while the facial makeup of other operas can only change one or two facial makeup at a time. The face-changing in Sichuan Opera is a combination of special mechanisms and actors' skills, truly achieving the state of leaving no trace. Among all face-changing skills, Sichuan Opera is undoubtedly the most superb.