According to the traditional customs, there are two branches of Chinese opera, namely "birth, dan, net, ugly" and "birth, dan, net, end, ugly".
So, how are these types differentiated? Which characters correspond to each? Let's take a closer look.
Raw horns
Shengxing is a profession that plays male roles, including:
Lao Sheng: Mainly plays the role of emperor and Confucian weak middle-aged and elderly people.
Xiaosheng: Mainly plays the role of young and handsome male.
Wu Sheng: Mainly plays a brave warrior or a hero of the Green Forest.
Red Student: Refers specifically to the old student who hooks the red face.
Dolls: There are several categories such as child characters in the play.
Except for the red students and the martial students who have a face (that is, a face on the face), the general life behavior is plain face, that is, the appearance is relatively clean and handsome.
Dan Corner
Dan Xing is to play a variety of different ages, different personalities, different identities of female characters. Danxing is divided into:
Tsing Yi (正丹): A dignified and elegant woman.
Hua Dan: A naïve and lively girl or a young woman with a hot personality.
Wu Dan: Play a brave female character, especially a fighter.
Dao Ma Dan: A young and middle-aged woman who is good at martial arts does not have to fight.
Lao Dan: Elderly women.
Cai Dan: A comical and witty comedic character.
Flower shirt: The all-round actor who melts Qingyi, Hua Dan, Wu Dan, and Dao Ma Dan in one furnace is called hua shirt.
Net angle
Jingxing is commonly known as flower face, also known as flower noodles. It is usually a male role. Net rows can be divided into:
Zhengjing (Big Flower Face): A loyal and good general with high status and stable demeanor.
Vice Net (Erhua Face): Commonly known as the shelf flower face, most of them play characters with rough and reckless personalities.
Wu Jing (武花面): A character who focuses on martial arts.
harlequin
Ugly lines are also called small flower faces and three flower faces. include:
Wen Ugly: A witty or sinister character.
Wu Ugly: A shrewd and humorous Haojie Yishi.
The last line, referred to as "the end". The profession is mostly middle-aged or older than male. In fact, the last line specializes in the function of introducing plays, such as the person who plays the first scene, and is called "the end" in the opposite sense.
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After reading it, think about it carefully, in fact, the role settings and character characteristics in modern film and television dramas can echo with the above classifications.
That's the beauty of TK!
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(Headline Jun: Yi Shishan)