Jingzhou ancient painting drama in Hubei drama
Jingzhou Ancient Painting Opera was originally named Mianyang Ancient Painting Opera, and was named Tian Yan Ancient Painting Opera in 1954, and was renamed "Jingzhou Ancient Painting Opera" in 198 1. It has a history of more than 200 years and originated in Mianyang City, Hubei Province. It is one of the most popular Han operas in Jianghan Plain, Hubei Province. It is a local opera that gradually developed in the folk singing forms of Han nationality, such as sangbang drum, walking on stilts, lotus picking boat, fishing drum, Daoqing and so on. Popular in Mianyang (now Xiantao City), Honghu, Qianjiang, Tianmen, Jianli, Hanchuan, Jingshan and other counties and cities, and gradually extended to neighboring Zhongxiang, Jingmen and Jiangling.
Jingzhou ancient painting drama has gone through the pastoral period that has not yet become a drama, the embryonic period with distinctive story and industry characteristics, the initial stage with accompaniment of gongs and drums and chorus, the string stage of introducing strings to integrate sounds, the decline of the Cultural Revolution in the past ten years, the peak period from the 1980s to the end of the 20th century and the decline period after the 1990s. 19986.6666666666 16
According to statistics, there are 197 ancient painting dramas in Jingzhou, including Sliding Door, Pinching Cabbage Moss, Telling the Old Man, Standing on the Flower Wall, Flipping Bamboo Shoots, Beating Lotus Fragrance, Jianghan Map, He Duanyang, Nailing, Toad, and Toad. In the early stage of Jingzhou ancient painting, the main businesses were niche, clown and Xiao Dan. Later, with the change of the repertoire, five trades were formed: Xiaosheng, Shengjiao, Zheng Dan, Hua Dan and Clown. Its performances are free and lively, full of strong local flavor and folk life, with stunts such as "picking flowers", "picking colors" and "biting bowls".
Jingzhou ancient painting opera music belongs to the gong system, and its singing is divided into two categories: main cavity and sub-cavity. The main cavity belongs to plate cavity, including high cavity, gong cavity, Siping cavity and Qinshui cavity. Minor is divided into three categories: single-card, special-tune and interlude. The music is short and melodious, lively and colorful. The traditional singing method of Jingzhou ancient painting opera is "singing in harmony, accompanied by gongs and drums" The singing is high-pitched and simple, with a wide range of tunes and a big melody jump. Both men and women sing with their own voices combined with falsetto, and "singing, helping and playing" closely cooperate to form a unique singing style. The main accompaniment instruments are side drums, bamboo sticks, cymbals, big gongs, horse gongs, small gongs, suona and so on, and there are about 20 kinds of percussion instruments.