The name of Sichuan Opera first appeared in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, then it was called Sichuan Opera, and later it was collectively called Sichuan Opera. Although this is only more than 80 years, as early as the Ming Dynasty, there were troupes performing all over the province.

Historians and artists of Sichuan Opera have talked about the origin and evolution of Sichuan Opera, some of which can be traced back to "Zaju" in the late Tang Dynasty and "Sichuan Zaju" in the Southern Song Dynasty. There are even different opinions that the high-pitched tune of Sichuan Opera is earlier than the Yiyang tune in Jiangxi, and the Qin tune sung by Shu Ling Wei Changsheng in Qing Dynasty is the "Qin tune" in Sichuan. It shows that the history of Sichuan Opera is still an academic problem with no complete conclusion, which needs further study and discussion.

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Characteristics of Sichuan Opera

Sichuan Opera consists of five kinds of tunes: Kunqu Opera, Gaoqiang Opera, Huqin Opera, Tanxi Opera and Dengdiao. Among them, except for the local lights, all the lights in other places are imported. These five kinds of vocal music and the music forms such as gongs and drums, suona music cards, piano and flute music that accompany these five kinds of vocal music. Sichuan opera music is eclectic. It absorbed the nutrition of the big cavity system of Chinese opera, merged with Sichuan local language, phonology and music, and evolved into local opera music with diverse forms, rich tunes, rigorous structure and different styles.

In the Tang Dynasty, Sichuan Opera was said to be "the best in the world". During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, on the basis of the local lantern drama, the voices of Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Anhui, Hubei, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places were absorbed and integrated, and a "Sichuan Opera" sung in Sichuan dialect was formed, with five parts: tenor, huqin, Kunqu, Lantern and Tanxi.

Among them, Sichuan opera is the main singing form of Sichuan opera with rich tunes, beautiful singing and the most local characteristics. The auxiliary cavity of Sichuan opera is leading cavity, combining cavity, chorus, accompaniment and duet, which means meaningful and fascinating. The language of Sichuan Opera is vivid, humorous, full of distinctive local colors, full of life breath and has a broad mass base. There are hundreds of common plays on the stage, including complete singing, doing, reading and acting, humor, instrumental music, unique "face changing", "fire breathing" and "sleeves", and freehand stylized movements, which imply endless wonderful taste.

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