戏剧英文介绍

Peking Opera combines music, acrobatic dance, and spectacular costumes to tell stories from Chinese history and folklore. Using abstract, symbolic gestures rich in dramatic meaning, actors represent personages from the heroic, divine, and animal worlds, often in martial exploits. The traditional features of the masklike makeup and elaborate costumes immediately identify the characters to a knowing audience.

Peking opera of China is a national treasure with a history of 200 years. In the 55th year of the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty(1790) ,the four big Huiban opera Troupes entered the capital and combined with Kunqu opera, Yiyang opera, Hanju opera and Luantan in Beijing's thearetical circle of the time. Through a period of more than half a century of combination and integration of various kinds of opera there evolved the present Peking opera, the biggest kind of opera in China, whose richness of repertoire, great number of artists of performance and of audiences, and profound influence are incomparable in China.Peking opera is a synthesis of stylized action, singing, dialogue and mime, acrobatic fighting and dancing to represent a story or depict different characters and their feelings of gladness, anger, sorrow, happiness, surprise, fear and sadness. In Peking opera there are four main types of roles: sheng (male) dan (young female), jing( painted face,male), and chou (clown, male or female). The characters may be loyal or treacherous, beautiful or ugly, good or bad, their images being vividly manifested.The repertoire of Peking opera is mainly engaged in fairy tales of preceding dynasties, important historical events, emperors, ministers and generals, geniuses and great beauties, from the ancient times to Yao, Shun, Yu, the Spring and Autumn Period, the Warring States Period and the dynasties of Qin, Han, Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing.The music of Peking opera is that of the "plate and cavity style".Its melody with harmonious rhythms is graceful and pleasing to the ears. The melody may be classified into two groups: "Xipi" and "erhong", guiding pattern, original pattern, slow pattern, quick pattern, desultary pattern being their chief patterns. The performance is accompanied by a tune played on wind instruments, percussion instruments and stringed instruments, the chief musical instruments being jinghu (a two-stringed bowed instrument with a high register), yueqin( a four-stringed plucked instrument with a full-moon-shaped sound box), Sanxian( a three-stringed plucked instrument), suona horn, flute drum, big-gong, cymbals, small-gong, etc.The costumes in Peking opera are graceful, magnificent, elegant and brilliant, most of which are made in handicraft embroidery. As the traditional Chinese pattern are adopted, the costumes are of a high aesthetic value.The types of facial make-ups in Peking opera are rich and various, depicting different characters and remarkable images, therefore they are highly appreciated. Moreover there are numerous fixed editions of facial make-up.Since Mei Lanfang, the grand master of Peking opera, visited Japan in 1919, Peking opera has become more and more popular with people all over the world, and it has made an excellent contribution to cultural exchange between China and the West, to friendly association and to improvement of solidarity.Peking Opera house of Beijing has been invited to perform in U.S.A., England, France, Germany, Italy (three times), Australia, Japan( four times), Brazil, Turkey, Singapore, South korea and Hongkong (five times). The performances have made an outstanding contribution to Sino-foreign cultural exchange and to the promotion of friendly association of peoples in the world, and were highly appreciated by foreign audiences.In 1993 Peking Opera House of Beijing as a big Peking opera troupe made a performance visit to Taiwan, pushing the cultural exchange to a new height.Peking Opera house of Beijing is willing to participate in activities of international cultural exchange and of commercial performances and sincerely hopes that friends in various countries will make contacts with us about cultural exchange and performances.

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Beijing Opera, also known as "yellow skin" from "Xi Pi" and "Erhuang" two basic tone of its music material, and also to sing tunes in some places small (for example, Liu Zi cavity, blowing cavity) and Kunqu Qupai. It was formed in Beijing, in time before and after 1840, prevalent in the 20th century three, the 1940s, when a "national drama," said. Now it is still a country with great influence Operas. It'scomprehensive and mature performance, the momentum of US-hong, is the representative of modern Chinese opera. China Peking Opera is China's "national essence", has 200 years of history. Beijing Opera is seen at the beginning of 2002-Guangxu (1876) "declaration", the history of skin was yellow, two yellow, yellow cavity, for Beijing, Peking opera, Peking opera, drama, and so the title, the Qing dynasty Qianlong 1966 (1790 ) Emblem four classes in Beijing, Anhui and Beijing Jutan after the Kunqu opera, Han Ju, Yiyang, Luandan Operas such as the 50's and 60's of the draw, Evolution of a Peking Opera is China's largest opera Operas. Its repertoire of the rich, as much as performing artists, many companies, as much as the audience, the impact of the deep are the highest. Beijing Opera is a comprehensive performing arts. That is, sing (singing), read (read white) and do (performance), fight (martial arts), dance (dance) for the integration, through the program's performance means Syria's stories, characterizations figures, the expression "Hi, anger, sorrow, Lok , Panic, fear, grief, "the thoughts and feelings. Role can be divided into: Health (men), Dan (woman), net (men), ugly (men and women both) four. Zhongjian of the characters, Beauty and Ugliness of the points, good and evil of the points. The image clear, lifelike. State attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage, May 20, 2006, Peking approved by the State Council included in the first batch of state-level intangible cultural heritage.