Chinese history and culture, Yu Opera

Henan Opera is a kind of local opera which is nurtured and nourished by the culture of Central Plains of China.

Also known as “Tubang opera”, “Henan Ou” and “Henan Clapper”.

It has a history of nearly 300 years since the Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty.

Among many kinds of Chinese operas, Yu Opera ranks among the best in the country in terms of the number of troupes, the number of practitioners and the number of audiences.

From the artistic point of view, Henan Opera is a very artistic type of drama, is a kind of drama adapted to the cultural psychology of the general public,

It is a kind of drama with strong artistic radiation and plays an important role in the cultural life of the people in the Central Plains.

Henan Opera, adhering to the Central Plains culture’s core concept of “tolerant and large”, has a strong tolerance and absorption ability.

The early Yu opera was performed on the same stage as the local Luo Opera and Roll Opera.

The repertoire, performance skills and musical vocabulary of Luo Opera and roll opera were absorbed by Yu Opera.

Henan Opera also borrowed a lot of artistic vocabulary from the foreign operas such as Kunqu opera and Yiyang Opera that spread to Henan.

Local folk rap, folk dance, martial arts, acrobatics, etc., are also the objects of Yu opera to absorb artistic nutrition.

Thus, Yu Opera accumulated a large number of traditional plays.

According to statistics in 1957, Henan local opera has more than 4,000 traditional plays.

Henan opera occupies a large proportion, most of which are war drama,

public drama, court drama, but also life ethics drama, marriage and love drama.

According to the artists, Henan opera has a large number of “operas of one country”,

There are also a large number of “family drama”, such as “Three Kingdoms drama”, “Shuihu drama”, “Bao Gong drama”, “Yang Jiajiang drama” and “dynasty drama”.

It reproduces the ancient social life from many angles, providing the audience with many aspects of life experience and inspiration.

Chinese national first-class actor Li Shujian performs Henan Opera “Breeze Pavilion”

In recent years, Henan Opera is very popular in Henan and the countryside of the surrounding provinces.

During the performance, the audience was often tens of thousands of people, the hillside, the roof, the wall were full of spectators, the sea of people, the scene was shocking.

This fully shows the influence and attraction of Yu Opera to the audience.

Opera lovers from the three northeast provinces, Guangdong and Guangxi regions also took high-speed trains and flew to Henan to watch Henan opera.

He was filled with emotion, that Yu opera “the tone of passion is high without losing soft, singing is plain white as words, directly express their feelings, directly hit the heart, collision soul.”

The plays all reflect the dignified national spirit, bring real spiritual enjoyment to the people, and add wisdom to life.”

He sincerely expressed “salute to the great Yu opera”.

The emotion of the audience represents the aspirations of many people who come from all directions to watch Yu opera.

It fully shows the extraordinary artistic charm and powerful radiation of Yu Opera.