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THE BASIC SKILLS OF CHINESE OPERA

The basic skills of Chinese opera include all aspects of technical skills, dance moves, and special tricks. Mastering the basic skills is very important for any opera performer. The socalled mastering of basic skills actually means mastering all the performance abilities and performance methods in the performing arts of Chinese opera.

Diligent study and practice of basic skills, on the one hand, enables actors to master and accumulate the necessary artistic vocabulary for shaping the stage image; at the same time, it also changes the physical quality of the actors themselves, turning the actors from ordinary people into qualified opera actors.ww “Singing” refers to singing skills. “Do” means to do work, that is, to perform. “Reading” means chanting. “Fighting” refers to martial arts. Opera actors have been trained in these four aspects since they were young. Although some actors are good at singing (sing to old classmates), some concentrate on Qigong (Hua Dan) and some concentrate on martial arts (Wu Jing). But it is required that every actor must have the four basic skills of singing, reading, doing and acting in order to give full play to the function of opera as a musical performance. Better performance and portray various roles in the play.

Waist and Leg Skills:

the basic skills of an actor. It is also a required course for practicing somersaults. Traditional Chinese opera, dance and martial arts must use waist and leg kung fu. Without waist and leg skills, one cannot flexibly grasp the transfer of the body’s center of gravity. The waist and leg skills can also make the actor’s body movements beautiful and coordinated. Like harrier turning over, shabu-shaking, flying feet, spinning, exploring the sea, iron thresholds, and kicking up to the sky are all waist and leg skills.

Hat-Wing Technique:

Performing body stunts, also called shawl-hat wings. Taking the neck as the axis, it drives the gauze cap wings on the head to swing up or down, or rotate left or right, or circle forward and backward. Sometimes I play with a single wing, and sometimes both wings rotate and agitate at the same time. When playing, the hat wings stop if you want to stop, and move if you want to move; or stop or move, flexibly. It is often used to express the emotions of the characters in the play such as contemplation, inner conflicts, indecision, excitement and joy.

Handlebar Skill:

“Handlebar” is the general term for weapons and props on the opera stage, and is also called knife and gun handle. Such as knives, guns, swords, halberds, axes, hooks, forks, sticks, etc. Ba Zi is also extended to be synonymous with martial arts, so the basic skills of using various equipment to train martial arts techniques are also called Ba Zi Gong. Only when actors have mastered and used the technique of handlebars, can they show the scenes of characters fighting and fighting on the stage. There are many routines for handle skills, generally divided into long (long swords, big guns, forks and sticks, etc.), short (short swords, such as single knives, double knives, swords, kidnappers, daggers, etc.), and three unarmed ones. kind. Each set of handles has a proper name, such as small quick gun, big quick gun, small five sets, big sword gun, double sword gun, eighteen sticks, etc. The performance is divided into two types: solemn and funny. The former refers to the use of serious martial arts to create a solemn and mighty atmosphere, to express the character of the characters in the play, and to express the development and change of the drama plot; the latter is mostly used for joking martial arts, which is characterized by witty, funny, funny, and performance. The positive characters in the middle school have high martial arts skills and ridicule their opponents. Both types of handles require emotional, rhythmic, hierarchical, and structured play.