The country’s current basic policies for Kunqu Opera are: rescue, protection, and inheritance.

Kun Opera, formerly known as "Kunshan Opera" (referred to as "Kun Opera"), is an ancient Chinese opera tune and type, and is now also known as "Kun Opera". Kunqu Opera is one of the oldest operas among the traditional Chinese operas. It is also a treasure of Chinese Han traditional culture and art, especially the art of opera. It is known as an "orchid" in a hundred gardens. Kunqu Opera originated in Kunshan, Suzhou, China in the 14th century. It was later improved by Wei Liangfu and others and spread throughout the country. It has dominated the Chinese theater scene for nearly 300 years since the middle of the Ming Dynasty.

Kun Opera combines singing, chanting, fighting, dancing and martial arts. It is famous for its elegant tunes, melodious diction and delicate performances. It is one of the operas under the Southern Opera system known as the "ancestor of all operas". kind. Kun Opera uses drums and boards to control the singing rhythm, and uses Qudi and Sanxian as the main accompaniment instruments. Its singing pronunciation is "Zhongzhou Rhyme". Kun Opera was listed as a "Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity" by UNESCO in 2001 (it was included in the "Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity" in 2008).

Characteristics of Kun Opera art

1. Script: Kun Opera script adopts the structure of the legendary dramas of the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Each major opera is divided into many excerpts, and each opera excerpt is its own unit. , all have a relatively complete short plot that runs through the overall plot, and many of its single-fold plays can be performed independently.

2. Music: Chinese opera music is roughly divided into two structural forms, namely Qupai style and Banqiang style. Kunqu opera music is in the form of a tune structure, with more than a thousand tunes. Each play of Kunqu Opera is a complete set of northern songs, southern songs or northern and southern songs. Its singing style is tactful and delicate. The articulation of words is exquisite and can be divided into four tones and pointed groups. Peking opera music has a banqiang structure, which is divided into several ban styles such as Xipi Erhuang.

3. Performance: Due to the characteristics of its script and music, Kun Opera has very high dance-like and stylized movements. The biggest feature of Kun Opera is singing and dancing. Because the lyrics of Kun Opera are very elegant, every aria is Dance movements are often used in Kun Opera to express the inner feelings of the characters, or to assist in the interpretation of words. The dance movements of Kun Opera use various techniques of imagery, deformation and decoration to make the movements very graceful.