Artistic Features of Meng Opera in Guangchang

Guangchang Meng Opera belongs to Qupai style, and its singing voice is high and unified, mostly in the second half of the latter sentence, with the characteristics of mixed singing. The Nanqu sung by Zeng Jiameng Opera is older than Yiyang Opera and absorbs the elements of Haiyan Opera. Singing in Guangchang Mandarin, with percussion instruments such as drums, gongs and cymbals, has a fast pace and shows the characteristics of primitive ancient music. Liu Jia Meng's operas are mainly performed by Haiyan Opera, including Yiyang Opera, Qingyang Opera and Huizhou Opera.

Guangchang Mongolian Opera is a kind of opera that sings Meng Jiangnv with a high voice. Popular in Ganzhu area, there are Chixi Zengjiameng Opera and Dalubai Liujiameng Opera. As a grand ceremony integrating clan sacrifice and drama sacrifice, the performance of Meng Opera is only performed once a year in the village, among which Liu's Meng Opera "Going Home" is performed every year on the first day of the second lunar month. The performance customs are mainly "pretending to be handsome" and "asking God". "Being handsome" means that at a specific time in the first month, the wooden statue of the ancestor of Qingyuan and the masks of the "Three Generals" (Meng Tian, Wang Jian and Bai Qi) were carried on sedan chairs and toured the village or the street, beating gongs and drums, beating and slapping, and all the men in the clan participated. The procession passed through every house in the village (street), and incense tables and firecrackers were placed at the door of every house to greet it. "Asking God" means that the person in charge sings the names of the famous temples in the country (the Liu family in Guangchang County sang operas) and the names of the late artists' masters one by one, and invites them back to the theater. According to historical research, Zengjiameng Opera was formed in the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1436- 1449), and Liujiameng Opera was formed in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, that is, after A.D. 1573. The musical structure of Meng Opera belongs to Qupai style, and Liang Lumeng's Opera Edition has 140 kinds of Qupai. Many arias have more sentences, that is, more than one word. The melody is gentle, mostly in the alto, singing in your own voice. Sometimes when singing a sentence or adding a chorus, the melody suddenly turns and uses a falsetto (narrow voice). Many songs end from low to high. The form of singing is dry singing, accompanied by orchestral music, with clappers as the beat, and only gongs and drums are used to go through the door. The tunes are not fixed, and most of them are sung according to the artist's voice. Singing is mainly in Guangchang Mandarin, and there are also some "roll singing". Short cavity sentence. Generally speaking, there are only a few boards in the second half of the sentence, and there is the last sentence. There is no accompaniment of gongs and drums in the cavity.