1. Shengdan Jingchou:

The name of the opera industry. Sheng: refers to a man; Dan: refers to a woman; Jing: refers to a man with a strong or rough personality; Ugly: refers to a funny character who puts white powder on the bridge of his nose, and is called a clown, a little painted face, etc.

2. Singing, chanting, doing fighting:

Nianting, doing fighting are the four artistic methods of opera performance, and they are also the four basic skills of opera performance. Often referred to as the "Four Gongs". Singing refers to singing skills, and chanting refers to musical chanting. The two complement each other.

"Song", one of the two major elements of the singing and dancing opera performing arts, is the physical movements of finger dancing, and the skills of finger fighting and falling. The two are combined with each other to form a singing and dancing opera. "Dance" is one of the two major elements of opera performing arts.

Extended information

The origin of the names of opera characters has always been controversial. A more common saying is that "Sheng, Dan, Jing, Chou" are named with "ironymy". This is actually a very old legend, which dates back to the era when dramas and legends were popular.

The division of Peking Opera roles is very detailed. It was divided into ten lines at first, and later it was merged into the four lines of Shengdan, Jingchou and Jingchou. Various characters have fixed facial makeup, appearance and costumes based on the identity, temperament and personality of the characters in the play, and the stage movements of each role are also standardized.

In the long-term development process of opera, it has gradually integrated various artistic methods such as singing, reading, acting and fighting to serve the purpose of retelling stories and shaping characters. As early as the Han Dynasty, there was the program "Huang Gong of the East China Sea", which used martial arts and acrobatics to perform simple stories. Song and dance were popular in the Tang Dynasty and were famous for singing and dancing.

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