The Famous Chinese Opera Culture

The traditional opera culture is the pride of every Chinese people. Each place in China has its own characteristics and own opera culture. If you don't believe, let’s enjoy the beauty of the traditional opera culture right now.

According to the recent statistics, there are over 300 different style of Chinese opera, and the number of performances that come down is larger to record easily. Every opera has its own historical inheritance and many people perhaps know some chapters of operas appearing frequently such as Peking opera. There are huge difference in opera culture between China and western countries and many roles of differentiation, especially the special details and large amount of types in drama. Raw, Dan, Net, Ugly are the most famous ones and perform most among them, in which, different genders play different roles. If you want to know, it is difficult to understand if you don’t experience deeply for a period of time .

Are you getting interested,? You will fall behind if you think that this is all of the Chinese culture. Chinese opera falls into three types, as is known by Kunqu opera, Beijing Opera, Huangmei opera. Among them, Beijing Opera includes Mei svhool, Cheng school, Gou school, Shang school. When you see a painted face on TV, definitely you are going to enjoy Chinese traditional opera performances. And when you see him carefully, you will find it abstruse but do not be shocked by the makeup painted on actors’ face. Because this false makeup serves only to show a more vivid and impressive image to audience, which represents the background of character's personality and life.

The roles actors played have a complicated background and the actors will tell people in the process of their performance. A red painted face actor represents justice, image of hero and the spokesman of commendatory. A black painted face actor represents boldness. A blue painted face actor represents foolhardiness and often becomes a tragedy. The yellow and white painted face actors represent the villain and is the representative of the treacherous man, among which Cao cao is the most typical one.

As Chinese traditional opera is extensive and profound, if you want to understand it thoroughly, you must experience yourself for it is far from enough when you see it from papers. The Chinese opera culture is waiting for your deep understanding.