China s three quintessences, China s four quintessences

Peking Opera, Chinese Painting, Traditional Chinese Medicine.

The Four Great Essences of China refer to Chinese martial arts, Chinese medicine, Chinese Peking Opera, and Chinese calligraphy.

Chinese martial arts, Chinese martial arts is created and developed by the Chinese nation, with the role of fitness, body protection, enemy defense, and victory, and is one of the four quintessences of China. Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine is an important part of China's splendid culture, one of the four quintessences of China, has an increasingly significant influence in the world, and is deeply loved and welcomed by the Chinese people and the people of the world.

Over the past 50 years, Chinese medicine has made great achievements in all aspects.

Peking Opera "Wu Zetian" Chinese Peking Opera is Chinese"Quintessence of the country", which has a history of 200 years. The name of Peking Opera began to be seen in the "Declaration" of the second year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, and there were titles such as Pi Huang, Er Huang, Huang Cavity, Beijing Tune, Peking Opera, Ping Opera, National Opera, etc., in the 55th year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1790), the four major Hui troupes entered Beijing and passed through the Kunqu Opera, Han Opera, Yiyang, and Random Drama in the Beijing Opera Circle.

After 50 or 60 years of integration, it evolved into Peking Opera, which is the largest opera genre in China. Its repertoire is rich, there are many performing artists, there are many troupes, there are many audiences, and the depth of influence is the highest in the country. Peking Opera is a comprehensive performing art.

Calligraphy is the art of writing Chinese characters. In the long history of evolution and development of Chinese characters, it stands tall in the forest of world art. On the one hand, it plays an important social role such as the exchange of ideas and cultural inheritance, and on the other hand, it has formed a unique plastic art in itself.

Although the self-consciousness of the art of calligraphy did not occur until the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the art of calligraphy should be at the same time as the emergence of Chinese characters.

The earliest ancient Chinese characters in China are recognized by the academic community as oracle bone inscriptions and Jin inscriptions from the middle and late Shang Dynasty (about the 14th to 11th centuries BC). From the perspective of calligraphy, these earliest Chinese characters already have many factors of calligraphic formal beauty, such as the beauty of lines, the symmetry of the shape of the characters, the beauty of variation, the beauty of chapters, and the beauty of style.

The four quintessences of China are: Chinese Peking Opera, Chinese martial arts, Chinese calligraphy, and Chinese medicine. The quintessence of China refers to the essence of a country's inherent culture, and the quintessence of China refers to the essence of Chinese culture that originated entirely in China itself.

1. Chinese Peking Opera.

Peking Opera, once known as Ping Opera, one of the five major opera genres in China, is dominated by Xipi and Erhuang, accompanied by huqin, gongs and drums, and the scene layout pays attention to freehand. It is regarded as the quintessence of China and the top of the list of the three tripods of Chinese opera.

2. Chinese Medicine.

Traditional Chinese medicine was born in a primitive society, and the theory of traditional Chinese medicine has been basically formed in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and has been summarized and developed in successive dynasties. In addition, it has had a profound influence on the countries in the Chinese character cultural circle, such as Japanese Kampo medicine, Korean Korean medicine, Korean Korean medicine, and Vietnamese Eastern medicine, all of which were developed on the basis of traditional Chinese medicine.

3. Chinese martial arts.

Kung Fu is the crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese nation, the embodiment of traditional Chinese culture, and the unique "martial arts" in the world. It pays attention to both rigidity and softness, both internal and external, not only has a strong and majestic appearance, but also has an elegant and profound connotation, which contains the sages' understanding of life and the universe, and is a valuable cultural heritage accumulated by the Chinese working people for a long time.

4. Chinese calligraphy.

Calligraphy is a unique artistic expression of the beauty of Chinese characters in China and the surrounding countries and regions that have been deeply influenced by Chinese culture, and is a traditional art unique to Chinese characters. There are mainly seal script, official script, regular script, line script, and cursive script.

The three quintessences of China are Peking Opera, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Chinese Painting.

1, Jingtana drama.

Peking Opera, also known as Ping Opera and Peking Opera, is the quintessence of China and has a history of 200 years. Its performing arts tend to combine the virtual and the real with the expressive techniques, which transcend the limitations of stage space and time to the greatest extent, so as to achieve the artistic realm of "conveying the spirit with form, and having both form and spirit".

2. Traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has also had an increasingly significant influence in the international community, and has gradually begun to be loved and welcomed by people all over the world. The highest state of Chinese medicine is "neutralization", and "neutralization" is the ideal state of the existence of all things in the world.

3. Chinese painting.

Chinese painting is the main type of painting in the world's oriental painting. In the long history of evolution and development, Chinese painting stands tall in the world of art.

Classification of Peking Opera Professions

In addition to the natural attributes (gender, age) and social attributes (identity, occupation) of the characters, the division of Peking Opera is mainly based on the personality characteristics of the characters. The Peking Opera Troupe used to have the saying of "Seven Elements and Seven Branches": the seven elements are Shengxing, Danxing (also known as Zhanxing), Jingxing, Ugly Xing, Miscellaneous, Wuxing, and Popular.

Everything on the stage of Peking Opera does not appear according to the original appearance of life. The characters on the stage of Peking Opera do not appear according to the age of the person in life, but according to the gender, personality, age, occupation and social status of the characters played.

The three quintessences of China are Chinese Peking Opera, Chinese Painting, and Chinese Medicine.

1. Chinese Peking Opera.

Peking Opera is one of the five major types of opera in China, and is also known as "Ping Opera". Its tone is dominated by Xipi and Erhuang, accompanied by the use of huqin and gongs and drums, which is undoubtedly the quintessence of China, and is recognized by the world as the "top of the list" of the three tripods of Chinese opera. Chinese painting, also known as danqing, attaches great importance to the use of brush and ink, also known as ink painting.

2. Chinese painting.

Chinese painting can basically be divided into three categories: figure painting, landscape painting, and flower and bird painting. The tools of Chinese painting are the four treasures of the study (pen, ink, paper, inkstone), and since the Song Dynasty, the "four treasures of the study" specifically refer to:

Hubi (Huzhou, Zhejiang), Huimo (Huizhou, now Shexian County, Anhui), Xuan Paper (now Jing County, Anhui), Duan Yan (now Zhaoqing, Guangdong) and Sheyan (now Shexian County, Anhui).

3. Chinese Medicine.

Four classic works of traditional medicine: "The Yellow Emperor's Neijing", "The Difficult Classic", "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases", and "Shennong's Materia Medica". In ancient China, there were four famous doctors with Bian Que, Hua Tuo, Zhang Zhongjing, and Li Shizhen, among which the five internal organs refer to:

Five organs: heart, liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys. Six intestines:

Stomach, large intestine, small intestine, tricoke, bladder, bile disturbance.

The origin of the quintessence of Peking Opera:

The entry of the Hui class into Beijing only appeared as a carrier for the production of Peking Opera; After the Han actors entered Beijing, they joined the Hui class and sang on the same stage with the Hui class actors, influenced and integrated each other, and the Beijing Yin evolved a new type of drama with a Pi Huang system. However, the repertoire of Han opera is actually the main connotation of Peking Opera, so the entry of Han opera actors into Beijing is really an important step in the production of Peking Opera.

Three large numbers of Han actors, drafts of Xunxun entered Beijing, after 1820, and after nearly 20 years of fusion, Peking Opera gradually took shape. The first generation of Peking Opera performers matured and was recognized around 1840. This is the historical basis for the formation of Peking Opera that we believe is about 150 years old.