Jiangxi’s drama is called Gan Opera.

Gan opera is the main opera type in Jiangxi. Its predecessor is "Yiyang opera", one of the four major tunes in ancient times. "The Story of Pearl" and "Zhang San Borrowing Boots" are his representative plays. "Return of the Soul" is adapted from the original work of the same name by Tang Xianzu. Gan opera's "Visiting Pu on a Snowy Night" with yellow accent, and "Meeting Friends by the Riverside" and "Sending Clothes and Crying in the City" with high accent are relatively rare ancient plays.

In the 1950s, under the leadership of the Jiangxi Provincial Culture Department, the two major schools of Yiyang Opera: Raohe Troupe and Xinhe Troupe merged in Nanchang to form the "Jiangxi Province Gan Opera Troupe". Yiyang Opera was then called "Gan Opera" ".

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Background of the development of Jiangxi Gan Opera

Gan Opera, its origin and predecessor is Yiyang Tune, one of the four famous ancient tunes. In the 1900s, Yiyang Opera was renamed Gan Opera. Gan Opera is known as the "living fossil" of Chinese drama and the "originator" of Peking Opera. Its development has had a profound impact on the formation of Peking Opera, Sichuan Opera, Hunan Opera, Qin Opera and other opera types. The formation of Gan Opera has gone through a long historical stage.

After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Nan Opera began to spread in the southeastern provinces of my country. The two prefectures of Raozhou and Guangxin in northeastern Jiangxi were once under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, and were included in Jiangxi Province in the early years of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty. Due to convenient transportation and trade, Nan Opera was introduced to Yiyang County in Guangxin Prefecture. At that time, Nan Opera, which settled in Yiyang County, specialized in the drama "Mu Lian Saves His Mother".

This kind of opera gradually underwent some changes due to the influence of local religious ideas, thus forming a kind of Southern Opera with Jiangxi characteristics, which is called "Yiyang Tune" and keeps pace with other Southern Opera accents in Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas. . During the Chenghua and Hongzhi years of the Ming Dynasty (1465--1505), Zhu Yunming's "Liao Tan" mentioned the Yiyang tune of Jiangxi in his review of the Southern Opera tunes. As the main tune of Gan Opera, the Yiyang tune is the oldest.

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