Meta Miscellaneous Drama Script Structure, What is the Structure of Meta Miscellaneous Drama?

The structural form of four folds and one wedge is one of its significant features, and "one-person lead singer" is another significant feature of Yuan Miscellaneous Opera.

The structure of the Yuan Miscellaneous Opera has a unique convention, which is generally to perform a complete story in a four-fold book, which just reflects the four processes of the contradictions, inheritance, transfer, and merger in real life.

Stills from "Dou E's Injustice" rehearsed by students of the Chinese Academy of Drama.

The structural characteristics of Yuan Miscellaneous Opera: It has produced a literary script with a complete structure that combines prose rhyme and rhyme, and Yuan Miscellaneous Opera is generally a complete story with four folds, and some have five folds, six folds or more consecutive performances.

It organically combines songs, lyrics, dances, performances, etc., and produces a literary script with a complete structure and rhyme. The main playwrights are related to Han Qing's "Dou E's Injustice", Bai Pu's "Wutong Rain", Ma Zhiyuan's "Han Palace Autumn", Zheng Xianzu's "Fu Nu Leaving the Soul", and Wang Shifu's "The Legend of the West Chamber".

Each twist of the miscellaneous drama is limited to a set of tunes composed of the same house tune. During the performance, the four-fold book is sung by the end of the year or the day of the day. (The other characters only speak in plain language), respectively"The last book"or"Danben"。

The form of the script composed of music, white, science and title correct name.

Yuan miscellaneous dramas are mainly based on "songs", which are mainly used for lyricism and narration of plots, which are the basic means of shaping the image of characters, and also play the role of rendering the atmosphere and describing the scenery. Guyuan miscellaneous drama is known as "Yuan Song". "White" means that it is known as "bin white, rhyme white, and scattered white".

Branch", mainly the actors' movements, expressions, and stage effects.

Most of the script systems in Yuan miscellaneous dramas are composed of 4 folds, and a small number of works are composed of 5 or 6 folds, but they are all very interesting and ornamental.

There will be 4 palace tunes, there will be suites, and there will also be Xianlu, Nanlu, Zhenggong, Zhonglu, Yuetuo, and double tunes, which are the most common.

The name of the meta-miscellaneous drama is Genchai Mo, which is divided into Danben and Moben according to the different roles of the lead singers. A play can only be sung by one person, and the others are generally only supporting roles.

The composition of the miscellaneous script includes three parts: singing, white, and science. The whole play is generally sung by one of the main actors, and the other characters are sung by Bai Wu. The main characters are usually "Zhengdan" or "Zhengmo", so the script is divided into "Danben" or "Moben".

The roles of Yuan miscellaneous dramas are generally divided into four categories: end, dan, net, and miscellaneous. In the end, he mostly plays a middle-aged man. The end refers to the male protagonist in the play.

Dan, play the role of a woman. Zhengdan refers to the heroine in the play. Net, playing a strong or rough character, commonly known as a flower face.

Miscellaneous, playing the role of miscellaneous errands, ordinary people and other characters.

The stage performance of the acrobatic drama consists of three parts: singing, white and branch.

Singing is a major part of the show. The lead singer Yuan Miscellaneous Drama is a one-person lead singer or male and female protagonist, the role of the lead singer is either the end of the year, or the main singer, the lead singer of Zhengdan is called Danben, such as the lead singer of Dou E in "Dou E's Injustice".

Bai, that is, bin bai, is the confession of the people in the play. Bin Bai is also called Daobai or Shuobai in the opera of later generations, and the predecessors have roughly two interpretations of Bin Bai of Yuan miscellaneous operas: Xu Wei's "Southern Words Narrative":

Singing is the main, white is the guest, so it is said that the guest is white, and it is easy to understand. Shan Yu's "Jupo Cong Words": "There are all guests and all white in the northern song.

The two said to each other, and one said to himself. ”

The latter may be more accurate from a hermeneutical point of view. It is the words spoken by the actors outside the lyrics, including the dialogues and monologues of the characters, which are composed of vernacular and some rhymes, also known as rhyme and sanbai. Dialogue is similar to the dialogue of a drama, and the monologue has a narrative nature and plays an important role in the development of the plot and the shaping of the characters.

The script also prescribes the main movements, expressions, and stage effects, called "ko".

Yuan Miscellaneous Opera, also known as Northern Miscellaneous Opera, is a traditional form of opera sung in Northern Opera in the Yuan Dynasty. It was formed in the Song Dynasty and flourished during the Yuan Dade period (the second half of the 13th century to the 14th century). The main representative writers are, Guan Hanqing, Zheng Guangzu, Ma Zhiyuan, Bai Pu, etc.

The main representative works are: "Dou E's Injustice", "A Chinese Girl's Soul", "Han Palace Autumn", "Wutong Rain" and so on. Its content is mainly to expose the darkness of society and reflect the suffering of the people, combining realism and romanticism, with a clear main line and distinct characters.

The most striking features of its structure are the four-fold wedge and the "one-man lead singer".

The characters of miscellaneous dramas are divided into dan, end, net, and miscellaneous. Dan includes Zhengdan, Waidan, Xiaodan, Dadan, Laodan, and Lindan. Zhengdan:

The main actress who sings. Wai Dan and Tie Dan secondary actresses. The end includes the main end, the small end, the punch end, and the secondary end.

The main actor is the main actor who sings, and the outer end and the deputy end are the secondary actors. Okisue is an actor who is making his debut on the stage. Net is a violent actor.

Miscellaneous are actors in addition to the above three categories. There are Gu (being an official), driving (emperor), Bu'er (old woman), Lai'er (small maid), fine acid (reader) and so on.

The lead singer of Yuan miscellaneous dramas is generally sung by one person or male and female protagonists, and the role of the lead singer is either Zhengwei or Zhengdan, and the lead singer of Zhengdan is called Danben, such as the lead singer of Dou E in "Dou E's Injustice". The lead singer at the end of the year is called the last book, such as "Han Palace Autumn", the lead singer of Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty. Generally speaking, it is common practice for one person to sing to the end in a play.

But there are also a few scripts, and as the plot develops, the characters also change. For example, in "Earning Kuaitong", the first fold is played as Zhang Liang, and the second, third, and fourth folds are played as Kuaitong. This leads to a change in the lead singer's character.