The top ten Cantonese songs in Guangdong are as follows:
1. "Sanniang Goddess"
"Sanniang Goddess" is a very famous Cantonese song in Guangdong. , it is adapted from the famous "Silent Play" by Li Yu, a dramatist and novelist in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty. It tells the story of Wang Chun'e, Xue Bao and Xue Yige. The overall story revolves around the idea of ??reaping the consequences of one's own actions. The theme unfolds.
2. "Three Journeys to the Southern Tang Dynasty"
"Three Journeys to the Southern Tang Dynasty" is a fictional Cantonese opera in Guangdong. The main story background is set in the Song Dynasty. Di Qing appointed his son as the commander-in-chief, and then had grievances with the Yang family. During this period, there was also the story of Mu Guiying taking command. The heroine Mu Guiying was very famous.
3. "Beheading Two Kings"
"Beheading Two Kings" is a very popular Cantonese opera drama in Guangdong. The entire Cantonese opera is expressed using narrative techniques. , so the audience can easily accept and understand it. There are not many special arias, but the artistic technique is expressed in the way of hitting the emperor by mistake.
4. "The Light Again"
"The Light Again" is a relatively traditional Cantonese opera in Guangdong. This Cantonese opera comes from "Eighteen Editions of New Jianghu" and was performed in the Qing Dynasty. It was very famous during that time, and many theaters used the script "Eighteen Editions of New Jianghu", but this opera was lost with the passage of time.
5. "Huanghua Mountain"
"Huanghua Mountain" is a Cantonese opera that is often performed in Guangdong. This Cantonese opera is also called "The Return of the Grand Master to the Dynasty". It tells the story of Li Ruiting, the owner of Huanghua Mountain Village, who went down the mountain to meet the hero Jiang Yunlong, and then started an uprising with him, who was highly skilled in martial arts.
6. "Rain Beats the Plantains"
There are many works in Guangdong music that "express emotions based on scenery". Composers express people's spiritual outlook through the description of scenes. , this song "Rain Beats the Plantains" is a representative work of "Lyricating Emotions with Scenery" in Guangdong music.
7. "Yang Cuixi"
Based on the real event of the late Qing Dynasty, "Yang Cuixi Case", Duan Zhigui's exchange of actors for governor, it tells the story of the love between Liu Mingde, a Guangdong man living in Tianjin, and the famous singer Yang Cuixi. , a love story about fighting against the powerful. The love theme of this play is a newly created story, adding the fictional character Liu Mingde, and combining fiction and reality to connect the real history and the Cantonese tune "Yang Cuixi".
8. "Double Voices of Hate"
"Double Voices of Hate" is based on the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. The music expresses a yearning for a better life in the future amid lingering sadness. The slow passage at the beginning of the music is dark in color, the melody is sad and lingering, and the repetition of multiple melodies is like crying, and the deep pathos and sadness can be seen. The subsequent allegro section is played with repeated fill-ins, the speed gradually becomes faster and stronger, and it is clear and powerful, expressing the yearning for a better life.
9. "The Emperor's Flower"
"The Emperor's Flower" is the name of a Cantonese opera that premiered in 1957. The author is Tang Disheng. The background of this play is the sixth year of Chongzhen in the late Ming Dynasty. The country has been weak for many years. Although Emperor Chongzhen wanted to work hard to govern, he was under heavy pressure and used improper personnel, and the country was weakening day by day. The opera tells the tragic love story of Princess Changping and Zhou Shixian.
10. "The Purple Hairpin"
The Cantonese opera "The Purple Hairpin" was adapted by Tang Disheng in 1956 from "The Purple Hairpin" written by Tang Xianzu in the Ming Dynasty. It has eight episodes. It premiered at Lee Stage in Hong Kong on August 30, 1957. Tang Xianzu's version of "The Purple Hairpin" was adapted from the Tang Dynasty novel "The Biography of Huo Xiaoyu" and his own work "The Purple Flute", and changed its original tragic ending to a story of a talented man and a beautiful lady.