An introduction to the representative actors in the development of Peking Opera

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1, Li Shengsu (February 16, 1966), a national first-class actor, Gong Qingyi, Hua Yi. He is currently the head of the First Troupe of the National Peking Opera Company, which leads the leading role. He is a member of the Chinese Dramatists Association and enjoys ***** special allowance.

2, Ma Lianliang(February 28, 1901, December 16, 1966), born in Beijing, the name Wenru, Chinese Peking Opera actor, worker and old student, member of the China Democratic League. The representative repertoire includes "Borrowing the East Wind", "Ganlu Temple", "Qingfeng Pavilion", "** Shi", "Lost Space Chop" and so on.

3, Cheng Yanqiu(December 20, 1904, March 9, 1958), formerly known as Chenglin, Manchu, Suo Xue Luo, Manchurian Zhenghuangqi people. Beijinger, later changed to Han surname Cheng, first name Cheng Junong, later changed to Yanqiu, the word Yushuang. Since 1932, it has been renamed Yanqiu, and the word Yushuang has been changed.

He is an outstanding performing artist, drama theorist, educator, founder of the Cheng School, and one of the four famous artists.

4, Mei Lanfang(October 22, 1894, August 8, 1961), Ming Lan, also known as Heming, milk name skirt sister, word Wanhua, alias the owner of Yuxuan, stage name Lan Fang, born in Beijing in the twentieth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1894), his ancestral home is Taizhou, Jiangsu. Master of Chinese Peking Opera Performing Arts.

5, Wang Yaoqing(1881-1954), the word Xiting, the number chrysanthemum. Originally from Qingjiangpu District, Huai'an City, Jiangsu, he was born in Beijing, a Peking Opera actor and opera educator. In the early 30s of the 20th century, Wang Yaoqing taught at the Chinese Opera College.

Sheng, Dan, Jing, Mo, and Chou, the five major roles in Peking Opera.

1. Life <>

Abbreviated as "Sheng". Shengxing is divided into Xu Sheng (Lao Sheng), Hongsheng, Xiaosheng, Wusheng, and Doll Finger Wang Sheng. It is one of the important professions in Peking Opera.

Susheng (old student): that is, a middle-aged or above person in the play, wearing a beard (mustache), due to the difference in personality and identity, it can be divided into an old student or a singing old student (such as playing the emperor, bureaucrat, literati, etc.), relying on the old student (such as playing the military general), and the old student of the declining school (such as playing the poor person, etc.).

2. Dan Xing. <>

Abbreviated as "Dan". It is divided into Tsing Yi, Hua Dan, Wu Dan, Lao Dan, Tie Dan, Boudoir Dan and other roles. All of them are female.

Tsing Yi: Mainly singing, playing the role of a good wife and mother.

Hua Dan: Most of the women with lively personalities are performed, and there are also some tragedies and villains.

Flower shirt: between Tsing Yi and Hua Dan, comb the hair in ancient costumes (such as the head shape in the ancient ladies' paintings).

3. Net line. <>

Abbreviated as "digging and purifying", it is also called flower face. The net angle refers to the flower-faced characters of the face painting color map, which does not seem to be clean, so it means "net" The net line is divided into the following roles: the copper hammer flower face and the black head that are mainly singing.

Flower face. The shelves are mainly used for the work frame, such as generals, monks, green forest heroes, martial arts faces and beating faces. The copper hammer flower face is called Zhengjing, the shelf flower face is called vice net, and the martial arts flower face is called Wujing, Wu Er.

The flowers are blushing and pure, and they all have different characteristics in terms of performance style.

4. Last line. <>

Abbreviated as "end". Most of the people in this industry are middle-aged and above. In fact, the last line specializes in the function of leading the play, such as the first appearance, which is called "the end" in the opposite sense.

In modern times, because the "end" line of many drama genres has gradually been classified into the "only scattered child" line, "sheng, dan, clean, and ugly" are usually regarded as the four basic types of the industry.

5. Ugly behavior. <>

Ugly and ugly.

Wu Chou. Wen Chou is divided into square scarf Chou (literati, Confucianism); Wu Chou, specializing in martial arts roles such as falling, hitting, flipping, and fluttering. According to the animal genus, ugly is a cow, and the cow is stupid, and ugly is synonymous with stupidity.

However, the martial arts clown on the stage is also called opening jumping, and can speak and dance, performing a lively and clever role, good at performing martial arts, which is completely different from the ugliness of the cow.

In Peking Opera, there are roles such as Sheng, Dan, Jing, Mo, and Chou.

Among them, the sheng line includes the old sheng, the small sheng, the wusheng shed crack stool, the red sheng, the doll sheng, etc., the danxing includes the Zhengdan, Huadan, Wudan, Daomadan, Lao Dan, etc., the net line includes the copper hammer flower face, the black head flower face, the shelf source flower face, etc., the last line includes the secondary footwork of the old shengxing, such as the "old end" in the supporting role, and the role of playing the lower chain brigade characters, such as soldiers, family yards, etc., and the ugly line includes Wen Chou, Wu Chou, etc.

Each character has its own unique characteristics and performance style, and different characters play different roles in Peking Opera.

The five major roles of Peking Opera are Sheng, Dan, Jing, End, and Ugly. Shengxing in Peking Opera is the profession that plays a male role, and its position in Peking Opera is very important. Shengxing includes several categories such as old students, small students, martial arts, red students, and baby students.

Except for Hongsheng and Hook-faced Wusheng, Shengxing is generally plain-faced, and the insider's term is called "handsome", that is, the appearance is clean and handsome.

Dan Xing: Peking Opera Dan Xing plays a variety of female characters of different ages, personalities, and identities. Dan line is divided into Zhengdan, Hua Dan, Hua Shan, Dao Ma Dan, Wu Dan, Lao Dan and other special lines.

Net line: net, also known as "flower face", "flower face". Mainly plays the role of male characters with outstanding characteristics in terms of personality, qualities or appearance.

Facial makeup outlines the face, and the singing uses wide and false tones, and the performance has a large range of movements to highlight his character, bearing and momentum. The net line is divided into three categories: positive net, vice net and wujing.

Last line: Abbreviated as "end". Most of the people in this industry are middle-aged and above. In fact, the end of the line specializes in introducing the drama to return to energy, such as the first appearance, which is called "the end" in the opposite sense.

Ugly line: The ugly line is to apply a piece of powder with white powder between the bridge of the nose and eye sockets. In contrast to the large flower face, it is commonly known as the small flower face.

There are also several different shapes of this white powder block, some are square, some are ingot-shaped or inverted ingot-shaped, called waist shape, and some are jujube core shapes, according to different characters, draw different shapes and sizes of white powder blocks.

Ugly lines are divided into Wen Chou (square scarf ugly, robe belt ugly, old ugly, tea clothes ugly, and also play Cai Dan, mother-in-law), Wu Chou (commonly known as open jump).

1. In addition to the flower face and harlequin, the general term for male positive roles, divided into old students (also divided into re-sung Angong old students, redone decay old students, heavy martial arts rely on old students), martial arts (long by martial arts, short martial arts and should be work monkey play), Xiaosheng (divided into fan sheng, pheasant tail sheng, poor sheng, Wu Xiaosheng), red sheng, doll sheng.

2. The general term for the positive roles of women is divided into Tsing Yi (Zhengdan), Hua Dan, Boudoir Dan, Dao Ma Dan, Wu Dan, and Cai Dan.

3. Commonly known as flower face, most of them play male characters with some peculiarities in personality, quality or appearance, with makeup and face, loud timbre and rough style. "Net" is divided into a big flower face based on singing skills, divided into Zhengjing (heavy singing skills, called copper hammers, black heads), shelf flowers (heavy industry frames), Wu Erhua, beating flowers, oil flowers (one called Mao Jing).

4, ugly plays a comedy role, because he smeared a small piece of white powder on the bridge of his nose, commonly known as a small flower face. Fen Wen Chou (divided into square scarf ugly, robe belt ugly, old ugly, Rong Yi ugly, and also played Cai Dan, mother-in-law), Wu Chou (also known as opening jump) and so on. Each profession has a set of performance programs, and each has its own characteristics in the skills of singing, chanting, and fighting.

In Chinese Peking Opera, there are five general lines of life, dan, jing, end, and ugly, and there are more elaborate branches in each line.

1、 "Raw"Divided into:"Old students"--Refers to a mature middle-aged man who appears as a decent person or an imperial general; "Xiaosheng"-- It is a young man.

2、"Dan"Divided into:"Tsing Yi"--Refers to middle-aged women, generally referring to ladies and ladies of aristocratic families; "Wudan"-- refers to a woman who is capable of fighting; "Hua Dan"--Refers to young girls, women at the bottom of society, such as"Maiden"。

3、 "net"Refers to all kinds of faces, generally playing male characters with peculiarities in personality, quality or appearance.

4、"Final"It is also an old class, but it should be older in age, confused thinking, and an elderly person living at the bottom. It is commonly known because of the small pieces of white powder applied to the bridge of the nose when applying makeup"Little flower face", and with the net angle of the big flower face, two flower face juxtaposed and commonly called"Three-flower face"。

5、 "Ugly"refers to the small flower face, most of them also show people living at the bottom of the society, and folk righteous people are mostly clever and funny.

The Peking Opera genre refers to the performance style and artistic characteristics of Peking Opera performers who use their own performance skills to show differences from those of other actors in the characters they portray.

In the course of more than 100 years of development, Peking Opera has formed many performance genres with different styles and characteristics.

1) The Four Famous Dans.

Mei Lanfang, Cheng Yanqiu, Xun Huisheng, Shang Xiaoyun and other Danxing actors who became famous after the 20s of the 20th century.

2) Four small names.

Li Shifang, Zhang Junqiu, Mao Shilai, Song Dezhu and other Danxing actors who became famous in the 30s and 40s of the 20th century.

3) The Four Great Sushengs.

Yu Shuyan, Yan Jupeng, Gao Qingkui, Ma Lianliang and other veteran Peking Opera actors who became famous in the 20s of the 20th century.

4) The last four major mustaches.

Ma Lianliang, Tan Fuying, Yang Baosen, Xi Xiaobo and other famous Peking Opera veteran actors in the 40s of the 20th century.

In addition, the famous schools in the provincial line also include the Tan (Xinpei) school, the Wang (Guifen) school, and the Qi (Lin Tong, Zhou Xinfang) school. The famous schools in Jingxing are the Jin (Shaoshan) school and the Qiu (Shengrong) school. The famous schools in the ugly line include the Wen Chou Xiao (Changhua) school, the Wu Chou Ye (Sheng Zhang) school, etc.

1. Tan Pai. The representative figure Tan Xinpei specializes in playing old students.

2. Yu Pai. The representative character Yu Shuyan plays the old student and expresses the thoughts and feelings of the characters with singing.

3, Liu Pai. The representative Liu Hongsheng, who plays an old student, is famous for his high-pitched voice.

4, Yang faction. The representative Yang Xiaolou plays the martial arts and pays attention to "martial arts singing".

5. Mei Pai. The representative Mei Lanfang, one of the "Four Famous Dans", is good at playing various roles in Tsing Yi, Hua Dan, and Dao Ma Dan.

6, Cheng Pai, the representative figure Cheng Yanqiu, one of the "Four Famous Dans", plays Tsing Yi. According to the characteristics of his voice, he created a kind of gleeful and tactful singing.

7. Gaipai. The representative figure is called the sky, mainly short martial arts, and martial arts are sung.

8. Language. Representative figure Yan Jupeng.

9. Jinpai. The representative figure Jin Shaoshan plays a flower face.

10, Qipai. The representative figure Zhou Xinfang (stage name Qilin Tong) plays the old student.

11, Xun faction. The representative figure Xun Huisheng, one of the "Four Famous Dans", plays Hua Dan.

12, Shangpai. The representative figure Shang Xiaoyun, one of the "Four Famous Dans", mainly plays Tsing Yi.

13, horse pie. Ma Lianliang, a representative figure, was called the "Four Great Students" together with Tan Fuying, Yang Baosen, and Xi Xiaobo in the thirties.

Mei Lanfang, Cheng Yanqiu, Xun Huisheng, Tan Xinpei, there are representatives in different industries!

There are many representative figures of Peking Opera, such as Tan Xinpei, Yang Xiaolou, Cheng Yanqiu, and Mei Lanfang.

Are you asking about actors? Or is it a character from a play?

If you are an actor, of course, Mei Lanfang is the first to be recommended, he is a representative of oriental culture in the eyes of foreigners!

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The specific explanation of the roles of Peking Opera is as follows:

1. Life <>Shengxing is a profession that plays a male role, and its position in Peking Opera is very important. Shengxing includes several categories such as old students, small students, martial arts, red students, and baby students.

2. Dan Xing. Peking Opera Danxing plays a variety of female characters of different ages, personalities, and identities. Dan line is divided into Zhengdan, Hua Dan, Hua Shan, Dao Ma Dan, Wu Dan, Lao Dan and other special lines.

3. Net line. According to the different identities, personalities and their artistic and technical characteristics, the characters can be roughly divided into Zhengjing, commonly known as big flower faces; Vice net, commonly known as Erhua face; Wu Jing, commonly known as Wu Erhua. There are also shelf flower faces and two flower faces in the sub-net.

4. Last line. The last row is played by a man over the age of middle-age. In the Northern Miscellaneous Drama, the end is called the end of the mud or the end of the Nise, which generally refers to the end of the positive angle.

5. Ugly behavior. Commonly known as the small flower face. Because a small piece of white powder is smeared on the bridge of the nose when applying makeup, it is called ugly.

It is also known as the three-flower face because it is juxtaposed with the big flower face and the second flower face of the net line. The ugliness of ugliness refers to the appearance of not being handsome, not specifically to the ugliness of quality. The role played by Ugly Deeds is both a sinister and cunning character, as well as an image of integrity and kindness.

Ugly behavior is divided into two types: literary ugly and martial ugly.

13, horse pie. Ma Lianliang, a representative figure, was called the "Four Great Students" together with Tan Fuying, Yang Baosen, and Xi Xiaobo in the thirties.

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Today's famous Peking Opera actors:

Danjiao Mei faction: Li Shengsu, Dong Yuanyuan, Shi Yihong, Li Jie, Zhang Xinyue Shang faction: Shang Huimin, Sun Mingzhu, Wang Yan.

Cheng faction: Zhang Huoding, Chi Xiaoqiu, Li Haiyan, Li Peihong, Liu Guijuan, Lv Yang, Guo Weixun faction: Chang Qiuyue, Tang Hexiang, Xiong Mingxia, Guan Bo, Geng Qiaoyun, Zhang Jiachun Zhang faction: Wang Rongrong, Xie Yaping, Zhao Xiujun, Zhang Ping.

Lao Dan: Yuan Huiqin, Hu Xuan, Kang Jing, Guo Yaoyao.

Old students: Yu Kuizhi, Zhang Jianguo, Zhang Jianfeng, Du Zhe, Du Zhenjie, Guan Dongtian, Wang Peiyu, Tan Xiaozeng, Chen Shaoyun.

Flower face: Meng Guanglu, Yang Chi.

Famous Peking Opera Troupe:

National Peking Opera Company, Beijing Peking Opera Company, Shanghai Peking Opera Company, Tianjin Peking Opera Company, Hubei Peking Opera Company, Heilongjiang Peking Opera Company, Dalian Peking Opera Company, Shanxi Peking Opera Company, Comrades-in-Arms Peking Opera Troupe.