The five major genres of Chinese drama

1. Peking Opera

Peking Opera, once known as Ping opera, is also known as random bombing and Chinese opera. China's well-known opera drama, one of the five major chinese opera dramas, the scene layout pays attention to freehand, the tone is mainly Xipi and Erhuang, which is regarded as the essence of China's national essence, and the "top of the list" of Chinese opera. The art of Peking Opera is broad and profound, and the literary and martial arts are beautiful.

2. Yue opera

Yue opera, the second largest genre of drama in China, is known as the second national opera, and is also known as "the most widely circulated local drama genre" and is known as "Chinese opera" abroad. One of the five major types of Chinese opera.

Originated in Shengzhou, Zhejiang, originated in Shanghai, prosperous in the country, spread in the world, in the development of Kunqu opera, drama, Shao opera and other characteristic dramas of the culmination, experienced from the men's Yue opera to the women's Yue opera as the main historical evolution.

3. Huangmei drama

Huangmei opera, formerly known as Huangmei tune, tea picking drama, etc., one of the traditional opera dramas of the Han nationality, originated in Huangmei, Hubei, and developed and expanded in Anqing, Anhui, from mountain songs, rice songs, tea songs, tea lanterns, flower drum tones, first in the countryside, and then into the city, gradually forming a developed drama. It absorbs the factors of many kinds of dramas such as Han opera, Chu opera, gao cavity, tea picking opera, Peking opera, etc., and gradually forms its own artistic characteristics.

4. Comment on the drama

Commentary, spread in northern China, one of the traditional han opera dramas, is one of the popular dramas of the broad masses of people, ranking among the five major opera genres in China. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was formed on the basis of the small song "Counterpart Lotus Fall" in luan county, Hebei Province, which was first popular in rural Hebei and then entered Tangshan, called "Tangshan Luozi".

5. Yu opera

Yu Opera originated in Kaifeng, Henan Province, and is one of the five major opera genres in China. Yu opera is constantly inherited, reformed and innovated on the basis of Henan Zizi. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, because Henan was referred to as "Yu", it was called Yu Opera.