Pu Opera is a local opera from Linfen City and Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province.

Pu Opera is Puzhou Bangzi, a local traditional drama in Linfen City and Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province, and one of the national intangible cultural heritages. Puzhou Bangzi is named after its origin in ancient Puzhou. In central Shanxi and northern Shanxi, it is called "Nanlu Bangzi" or "Nanlu Opera", in Shangdang it is called "Xifu Opera", in Henan it is called "Xi Opera", and in the northwest areas of Shaanxi Province and Gansu Province it is called "Jin Opera" and "Pu Opera" ", "Shanxi Bangzi", "Bangzi tune".

Puzhou Bangzi has a high-pitched tone and is good at expressing generous and tragic historical stories. It has a profound tradition of music and performing arts, and is particularly famous for its stunts such as wearing hats, feathers, and hair tossing. In May 2006, Puzhou Bangzi was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list in the traditional drama category, project number IV-19.

Cultural characteristics of Pu Opera

1. Roles

Puzhou Bangzi is divided into Xusheng, Laosheng, Xiaosheng, Zhengdan, Xiaodan, Laodan, Dahualian and Er Character trades such as painted face and three-faced face have a long history and profound tradition in the performing arts. The distinctive characteristics are fiery and unrestrained, strong and generous, stretched and lively, subtle and delicate, paying attention to workmanship, and good at using special effects to express characters.

2. Unique skills

Puzhou Bangzi has many difficult and highly ornamental performance skills. There are more than 30 kinds of special skills alone, including hat wing skills, beard skills, etc. The performance stunts such as kou kung fu, plume kung fu, shoot kung fu, whip kung fu, chair kung fu, fan kung fu, paper flag playing, color kung fu and other stunts are famous throughout the country.

3. Accompaniment

The accompaniment is loud and hard, consistent with the high-pitched and exciting style of Pu Opera music. The instruments used in the martial arts field include drum boards (small wooden boards), jujube bangs, horse gongs, cymbals, and small gongs. Wenchang's musical instruments originally included small shell banhu, flute, erhu, and big sanxian; later, small, medium, and cello and other Western instruments were added. There are two suonas, big and small.

4. Rhythm

There are sixty or seventy sets of percussion points (gong and drum sutra) in Pu Opera, but in reality there are more than a hundred variations. Its rhythm is divided into four types: slow, medium, fast and loose. It is indispensable from matching performance movements to filling in rap, from mastering rhythm to exaggerating the atmosphere.

The above content refers to Baidu Encyclopedia-Puzhou Bangzi