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Pssst do you have any other fun facts about Chinese opera for people who haven’t been exposed to much of it?
(Peking Opera performance at the 2014 Chinese New Year Gala)
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Oh, goodness, that's a deep well to dive into xD There's a lot to know about Chinese opera.
Chinese opera incorporates every kind of opera that exists in China, pretty much every local region has their own style of Opera, there's about 360 different ones. There's Peking Opera, Huangmei Opera, Yue Opera (Shanghai/Shaoxing), Yue Opera (Guangdong province), Yu Opera, Chuan Opera, Kunqu Opera, Ping Opera, the city I'm in (Yangzhou) has Yang Opera, etc.
Out of all of these, the most famous would be Peking Opera (京剧/Jingju), it's recognized nationally as 国粹/Guocui meaning it originated in China and has deep cultural roots, representing a cultural heritage of the people. It has also been recognized by UNESCO as an international Intangible Cultural Heritage.
I'll focus on Peking Opera (my favourites are Peking Opera, Yue Opera (Shanghai/Shaoxing), and Huangmei Opera).
Peking Opera was created in the Qing Dynasty (last imperial dynasty of China). Back then, people in the performing arts were viewed as the lowest tier of society, parents did everything they could to prevent their kids from entering into a profession performing. Only when households were incredibly poor, did kids get "sold" into opera troupes. Yes, sold, like property. These kids would learn various skills like singing, acting, martial arts skills that would be used on stage. It was very brutal, getting up at dawn to practice splits, flips, and teachers back then would hit if you didn't meet their standards. No such thing as child labour laws back then.
There's a saying in China, "台下十年功,台上十分钟", behind the scenes ten years work, on stage ten minutes. Meaning For ten minutes on stage, a performer needed to work and practice for ten years, and this absolutely applied for Opera performers. Even today in China, it's well known that opera performers need decades of work before being able to perform on stage (yes, most opera performers even today got into it as children, not sold into a troupe like in the past, but being signed up for classes when they're very young to practice all the skills needed, kind of like ballerinas, there are certain skills that you just need to practice from young to learn for this artform).
Currently there's several major schools of Peking Opera. This refers to their singing style for particular characters. For example, for characters in the "Dan" category (旦角/Danjue - referring to young woman of wealthier families, elegant and well-mannered) there are 4 major schools: - Mei School (梅派) - Cheng School (程派) - Xun School (荀派) - Shang School (尚派)
The names refer to the person who created each school:
Mei Lanfang (梅兰芳)
Cheng Yanqiu (程砚秋)
Xun Huisheng (荀慧生)
Shang Xiaoyun (尚小云)
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Yaoruo..... for Du Ruo she's stuck in this weird space between moving on and still clinging to Xu since Yao is not Xu at all, but she also is because to Du Ruo more than anyone she's so defined in her differences from Xu. She simultaneously sees Xu in Yao and can't see Xu in Yao no matter how hard she looks 😭
And then you have Yao and how ???? it must be to want Du Ruo the way that she does. She can never be Xu, is slowly learning to be herself and what that even means when everything about her is born from a merger of these two great legdnds. But now here she is with Du Ruo and she can't even figure out if these are her feelings or not. Is this her chasing Xu? How fucked is it that the only person who sees her besides Chief only sees her because she will never be 😭 and how awful is it that despite knowing ehat Du Ruo is looking for she wants her so bad that even this is enough 😭
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