Yu Opera

One of the five major opera types in China and the largest local opera type in China. In recent years, Henan Opera has followed Henan TV, Henan Henan Theater, Taiwan Henan Opera Troupe and other performance groups to travel to many countries around the world, such as Australia, Italy, France, Canada, Venezuela, New Zealand, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, Thailand, Pakistan, etc. National performance, praised by Westerners as "Oriental aria", "Chinese opera", etc.

There are more than 300 traditional accompaniment tunes in Henan Opera, including more than 130 suona tunes, more than 20 transverse flute tunes, and more than 170 silk string tunes. Commonly used suona tunes include Spring Comes, Dahan Dongshan, Xiaohan Dongshan, Dataohong, Xiaotaohong, Damenmen, Xiaomenmen, Strong Wind Enters the Pine, Small Wind Enters the Pine, Wen Erfan, Wu Erfan, Shui Long Yin, and Xinshui Ling, Zhe Guizhi, Yan Jialing, Hillside Sheep, Red Embroidered Shoes, Suona Skin, Doll, etc. Commonly used transverse flute tunes include Chao Tianzi, Wu Liu Wu, Weeping for the Emperor, Yunxiao Ge, Pomegranate Flower, Hua Chao Yuan Ge, Bai Niao Chao Phoenix, chicken climbing, small opening, etc. Commonly used silk string music cards include small garden, nine linked rings, flower typo, little red shoes, bitter joy, langtaosha, oil gourd, 呓怓, abacus, wedding, etc.; The main musical instruments used in the Henan Opera Band include bangu, hall drum, large gong, hand cymbals, small gongs and clappers.

Quju

Quju is one of the types of Han operas mainly spread in Henan. In the old days, it was also called "Gaotai Opera" or "Quju Opera". Quju is popular throughout Henan Province and surrounding areas. It is developed based on the popular local folk music, drum music (Luoyang music, Nanyang music) and stilt-walking performances. The music of opera can be traced back to the Henan drum music sung a cappella in a class, which combines the miscellaneous tunes with the folk songs and dances of Henan on stilts. It was established in 1926 through the Tongle Club composed of farmers in Linru County (now Ruzhou City). Dengfeng County was put on the drama stage for the first time, thus officially developing into a type of opera. Among them, the "Stilt Song" has actors without stilts and kidnappers on the stage, which is a qualitative leap in the evolution of opera from folk songs and dances to the formal form of opera "Gaotai Song".

Yue Diao

Yue Diao is one of the Han operas in Henan Province. It is mainly popular in Henan, northwest Hubei, southeast Shaanxi, northwest Anhui, southeast Shanxi, central and southern Hebei, Beijing and other provinces and cities. The main instrument of Yue Diao was the four-stringed elephant trunk in the early days, and later it was generally played with the pendulum.

In addition to the opera form, Yue Diao also has two branches: folk art and puppetry. A severe drought occurred in Henan in 1942. During this period, many Yue Diao artists (such as Zhang Guilan) turned to street stalls to sing. After the famine passed, they returned to the stage to sing opera. The Yue Diao branch of puppetry is very popular in Nanyang, and some of the folk professional puppeteers are still very active today.