About Kunqu Opera Costumes Kunqu Opera Costumes Features

Next to the Jinling Scripture Engraving Office on Huaihai Road in Xinjiekou, Nanjing, there was originally a shop selling opera costumes and cosmetics, but it closed last year.

As far as I know, there are no more in Nanjing. Generally, Qu friends go to Suzhou Jingde Road to purchase (not far from Suzhou Guanqian Street, a few steps away. You can go to the Tintin map to check it. There are many shops over there that sell costumes and opera instruments. There are also matching things, such as boots, fans, and so on.

Suzhou Jingde Road is the closest to Nanjing, and it is also the most complete opera costume monopoly. Generally, the Jiangnan area is purchased there, and it is also a purchase channel for other places. It can be very low, because the competition is fierce, unlike other cities (such as Shanghai, Hangzhou) where there are often one or two monopolies.

And if you want to buy anything else, you can buy it all at once, so you don't need to run more places. Clothes machine embroidery and hand embroidery, it looks similar, but ** will be several times the difference. Beware of machine embroidery pretending to be hand-embroidered.

Be patient, cut boldly, there will be a suitable one.

Fan: Are you talking about Du Liniang's double-sided gold fan? You can also buy it at Jingdelu. There is also a legend of Wang Xing in Hangzhou.

However, Wang Xingji's cost 800, and the workmanship is not good. Pay attention to Taotao in Jingdelu and pay attention to the quality, about more than 100 yuan can be done. However, it is not recommended to use mud gold for practice, and it is easy to crack.

Buy a paper fan of the same size instead. Seven inches for small girls, eight inches for tall girls, and fifteen yuan or less.

I want it too, and the landlord got a tell me and thanked me first.

Come to Shanghai to sell it There is a specialty store in the City God Temple.

In addition to inheriting the costumes of opera characters since the Yuan and Ming dynasties, some of the costumes of Kunqu Opera were very similar to the popular clothing in society at that time. Reflected in the play, the military generals have their own various military uniforms, and the civil officials also have various clothes according to the class level of feudal society.

Traditional Chinese theatrical costumes are commonly known as "xingtou". The theatrical costumes that belong to the traditional Chinese drama performing arts belong to the "freehand art system", which is an artistic costume made of processing and refining of life costumes, which is similar to historical life costumes to a certain extent but not historical life costumes, and the beauty lies in the imagery costumes between the similar and the dissimilar.

Traditional theatrical costumes rely on and rely on the materialized aesthetic connotation of the costumes, which match the programmaticity, virtuality and assumption of traditional theatrical performances, and take "serving the expressive lyricism of the characters" as the highest aesthetic goal. It has the connotation of the beauty of programming, the beauty of rhythm, the beauty of decoration and the beauty of symbols.

Kunqu opera has a history of more than 600 years since its inception, and it is a well-deserved leader in China's opera, known as the "ancestor of a hundred operas". The singing tone of Kunqu Opera is euphemistic and long, subtle and elegant, and the word-by-word singing and recitation, if you hear the taste, it can really make your bones crisp. Compared with Peking Opera, the costumes of Kunqu Opera are less brilliant and more calm; Less luxury, more tranquility.

The stitches and threads on the costumes are mostly embroidered by the embroidery lady herself, and the flowers that bloom with the silk threads flow with a faint soft luster on the stage, which is really beautiful.

Kunqu opera is the oldest type of opera, also known as "Kunshan dialect" and "Kunqu opera". The tone of Kunqu opera is delicate and tactful, so it also has the reputation of "water mill cavity", and the performance is very danceable. The traditional repertoire often performed includes "Dream in the Garden", "Sifan", "Kneeling Pool", "Drunken Soap", "Crazy Dream" and so on.

Young women in traditional Peking Opera all comb their "big heads": the front of the forehead is pasted with **, the back of the head is tied in a bun, three locks of long hair hang down, two small locks are on the chest, and a large lock is behind the back, which is called "line tail".

Combing big hair is a profound skill that must be done by a special master. Apply makeup before combing your hair.

After the makeup is completed, the combing master is out. The first process is to tighten the head, which is to use a long strap to tightly hang the eyebrows on both sides, which makes it look more energetic.

Strangle your head and stick it. "**" is the circle of black hair around the face, which is made of real human hair, divided into locks and locks, and is soaked and scraped flat with elm glue when playing, and pasted around the face to modify the face shape.

The traditional big head should be pasted with seven "small bends", one in the middle of the forehead, three on each side; Two "dreadlocks", one on each cheek. The position and technique of sticking ** are very important to the appearance, and what kind of face shape can be adjusted into a beautiful duck egg face by sticking**.

After pasting, there is a series of hairdressing processes: buckle the net, insert a hairpin, curl hair, hair bun, wrap water yarn ......Full of black silk finished! You can put on the head face.

Strictly speaking, the "head face" includes everything worn on the head, such as hair nets, big hairpins, hairpins, etc., which are called "soft head faces"; The jewelry that appears below is called a "hard head", which is also often referred to as "head".

The head face is divided into three types: "rhinestone", "dotted cui" and "silver nail", which are worn according to different identities. The rhinestone head is mainly worn by a delicate girl or a small jasper, and the one worn by Du Liniang is, bling bling shiny.

Silk flowers, usually one or two flowers, hang a string of bones, and are worn on both sides of the ears to block the ears. Danjiao in Peking Opera is not allowed to show his ears.

Du Liniang visited the garden in this scene, wearing a "veil", which belongs to household clothes, with a large collar and a chest tie. The collar of the men's curtain is flat, and the hem reaches the feet; The collar of the maiden is a ruyi cloud head, and the hem reaches the knee, revealing a half-cut horse-faced skirt.

Different people wear different colors. Du Liniang, as a demure girl who has not yet left the cabinet, wears elegant white or light pink embroidered curtains.

Cotton bar, compared to silk chemical fiber, water sleeves will not be easy to slip down, and the luster is soft.

There are a lot of costumes sold on the middle street, and it is estimated that there are also rentals! **It's not very clear!

Some of the Lanya Quyuan rents also have photography venues, photography props, makeup, costumes, venue rentals, etc.

Go to Suzhou Pingtan School and ask.

There are many shops on Jingdelu to check out.

Watch a ticket holder perform, go backstage and ask them who rented the costume, isn't it?

But if you single out a play or a character, there are many differences.

Some repertoire is copied from Kunqu Opera, Peking Opera used Kunqu Opera makeup at the beginning, and slowly a Peking Opera master created a new makeup when playing this role, and later there will be some opera troupes in the Peking Opera industry to follow, and another part of the troupe will remain unchanged. There are also some Peking Opera circles that have all been changed to new ones.

For example, once on TV, it was said that in the case of Kunqu Opera's "Night Run", Lin Chong was dressed plainly, and Peking Opera dressed him too well, jokingly calling it "Kuo Lin Chong".

The main difference between the two is the singing, and the traditional costumes and makeup are the same.

Kunqu Opera and Kunqu Opera both refer to operas that originated in Kunshan, Jiangsu, and there is no difference between people's verbal expressions, both refer to Kunshan opera. However, there is an essential difference between them. The specific analysis is as follows:

1. The literal meaning is different:

Song: Melody, which refers to the meandering form of a melody. Drama: Drama, which refers to the singing content of the plot.

From the literal interpretation, the song "is mainly for people to sing, so it is often used with the verb "sing" to form the verb-object phrase "singing", and the drama "is mainly for people to perform, so it is often combined with the verb "acting" to form the verb-object phrase "acting", in addition to singing, it is also necessary to perform the body and body, it should be said that "drama" has a fuller connotation than "song".

Generally, singing-based activities are called Kunqu opera activities, such as Kunqu opera performances, cappella singing, etc.; Performance-based activities are called Kunqu Opera activities, such as Kunqu Opera Troupe, Kunqu Opera Art Festival, etc.

2. The development stage of the representative is different:

Kunqu opera was developed from the Kun dialect, and during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, because the Kun dialect "stopped in Wuzhong", Wei Liangfu, a native of Jiangxi, defected to Kunshan to improve the Kun dialect. His main contribution is to integrate the essence of the northern and southern songs into the Kun dialect of "Bu Zi has no interest", and carefully design the movement, pronunciation, and accompaniment, which finally ushered in a new life of the Kun dialect that was on the verge of decline. The Kun dialect at this time is called Kunqu Opera.

Subsequently, Liang Chenyu, a native of Bacheng, Kunshan, who was basically the same era as Wei Liangfu, developed the relatively monotonous singing form into a lively and lively drama form. He took the lead in compiling the legendary "Huanxi Sha", applied Kunqu Opera to the interpretation of the dramatic plot, created various roles, and endowed Kunqu Opera singing with greater charm. At this time, the singing of Kunqu Opera has entered the stage of Kunqu Opera.

To put it simply: Kunqu Dialect - Kunqu Opera - Kunqu Opera is the relationship between inheritance and development, representing the three different stages of development of Kunshan Opera.

Kunqu opera is an ancient Chinese opera vocal tone and opera. In the course of historical evolution, Kunqu opera once had"Kunshan dialect"(Abbreviation.)"Kun cavity"）、"Kun tune"、"Kunqu Opera"、"Nanqu"、"Nanyin"、"Yabe"and other different names. Generally speaking, Kunshan dialect is used to express the vocal cavity of opera, Kunqu opera is used to express music, especially cappella singing that is not off the stage, and the type of opera that refers to the performing arts is called Kunqu opera.

Kun opera, also known as Kun opera, Kun dialect, Kunshan dialect, is one of the oldest opera genres in China and a treasure in traditional Chinese culture and art. On May 18, 2001, UNESCO announced in Paris the first list of "Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity", which included the art of Kunqu opera in China, making China one of the 19 countries to receive this honor for the first time.

Kunqu opera was produced as early as the end of the Yuan Dynasty (the middle of the 14th century) in the Kunshan area of Suzhou, and it is known as the four major vocal cavities of the Ming Dynasty along with the Haiyan cavity and Yuyao cavity that originated in Zhejiang and the Yiyang cavity that originated in Jiangxi, and belongs to the same southern opera system.

At first, the Kunshan dialect was just a folk song and a small song. Its distribution area was initially limited to Suzhou, and in the Wanli period, it expanded to the south of the Yangtze River and the north of the Qiantang River with Suzhou as the center, and also flowed into Beijing in the last years of Wanli. In this way, the Kunshan dialect became the most influential vocal cavity opera from the middle of the Ming Dynasty to the middle of the Qing Dynasty.

Kunqu opera is the most influential vocal opera in the middle of the Ming Dynasty to the middle of the Qing Dynasty, many of which are developed on the basis of Kunqu opera, known as "the ancestor of a hundred operas, the master of a hundred operas", and has the nickname of "the mother of Chinese opera". Immediately, the Wuxi Kunqu Opera Society played a role in the prosperity and promotion of Kunqu Opera. Kunqu Opera is the most complete performance system in the history of Chinese opera, with a deep foundation and rich heritage, which is the result of the high development of Chinese traditional culture and art, and occupies an important position in the history of Chinese literature, opera, history and dance.

The performance of Kunqu Opera also has its own unique system and style, and its biggest feature is strong lyricism, delicate movements, and the combination of singing and dancing is ingenious and harmonious. In terms of language, the opera was originally divided into southern and northern operas: Nankun is mainly Suzhou vernacular, and Beikun is mainly Dadu Yunbai and Jingbai.

With its gorgeous singing, elegant recitation, delicate performances, elegant dancing, and perfect stage setting, it can be said that it has reached the highest level in all aspects of opera performance. Because of this, many local operas, such as Jin Opera, Pu Opera, Hunan Opera, Sichuan Opera, Gan Opera, Gui Opera, Yue Opera, Min Opera, etc., have been nurtured and nourished by Kunqu Opera in many aspects. Many of the scripts in Kunqu Opera, such as "The Peony Pavilion", "The Palace of Eternal Life", "Peach Blossom Fan", etc., are immortal works in ancient opera literature.

Kunqu opera texts uphold the literary traditions of Tang poetry, Song ci, and Yuan songs, and many of the songs are the same as those of Song Ci and Yuan songs. This has laid a good cultural foundation for the development of Kunqu Opera, and has also created a large number of Kunqu Opera writers and scholars, among which Liang Chenyu, Tang Xianzu, Hong Sheng, Kong Shangren, Li Yu, Li Yu, Ye Ya, etc. are all outstanding representatives in the history of Chinese opera and literature.