Xuyi Huangmei Opera
Huangmei Opera is a type of opera that was first performed in rural areas and then in cities, and gradually developed from folk songs, yangge, tea songs, tea-picking lanterns, and flower drum tunes. It absorbed elements from many other operas, such as Han Opera, Chu Opera, Gaoqiang, tea-picking opera, and Peking Opera, and gradually formed its own artistic characteristics. The singing style of Huangmei Opera is simple and fluent, and is known for its bright and lyrical style and rich expressiveness; the performance is simple and meticulous, and is known for its authenticity and liveliness. The song "The Legend of the Goddess and the Fairy" made Huangmei Opera popular across the country, and it also has a high reputation overseas. The singing style of Huangmei Opera is a variation of the board style, with three major singing styles: flowery singing, colorful singing, and main singing. Flower-tone is mainly used for small plays, and its tunes are healthy and simple, beautiful and cheerful, with a strong flavor of life and the color of folk songs; the tunes of color-tone are cheerful and have been widely used in flower-tone small plays; the main tune is the singing tune commonly used in the traditional Huangmei Opera, which is divided into Pingci, Huogong, Erxing and Sanxing. Among them, Pingci is the most important singing tune in the original play, and the tune is solemn and beautiful. Huangmei Opera is known for its lyricism, rich charm, simple and fresh singing, delicate and moving, and bright and lyrical. It has rich expressiveness, is easy to understand, and is easy to popularize, and is deeply loved by people from all over the country. In terms of musical accompaniment, the early Huangmei Opera was played by three people playing percussion instruments such as drums, cymbals, small gongs, and large gongs, and they also participated in the chorus, which was known as "three beats and seven sings". After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Huangmei Opera formally established an accompaniment system with Gaohu as the main instrument. The role system of Huangmei Opera was developed on the basis of "two minor operas" and "three minor operas", including Zhengdan, Zhengsheng, Xiaodan, Xiaosheng, Huadan, Qiaochou, Laodan, Laosheng, Hualian, Daomadan, Wuerhua and other roles. Although there is a division of labor, there is no strict restriction, and actors can often play other roles. Huangmei Opera's performances are full of singing and dancing, simple and meticulous, real and lively, full of life, and famous for advocating emotional experience. It has a fresh, natural, graceful and fluent artistic style. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)