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Dian Opera
The Dian Opera is a local genre of drama, which has a history of over 200
years. It originated from the Shaanxi opera, the musical style of the Anhui
opera, the Chu opera (the local opera of Hubei and part of Jiangxi provinces)
and the Hubei opera, integrated with the habits and customs of the people
of Yunnan Province with the aesthetic conceptions, especially the local dialects
and folk music, which gave rise to Dian Opera vocal music with silk string
two-stringed bowed instruments and Xiangyang instrument as the main operatic
tunes. It is an opera imbued with a unique artistic style and a strong local
color.
Local Opera
(Floral Lantern, popular in Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces):
The local opera is a kind of mini play with folk song and dances. It evolved
and formed on the basis of folk songs and ditties and local dances. It has
history of more than 200 years. It can be performed singing with actions,
song and dances and it can also be performed with actions, songs and dances
and it can also be performed with large and medium-sized traditional and modern
plays. There are more than 1000 tunes in the local opera, the vocal music
of which sounds beautiful and lyrical, popular and easy to understand, and
rich in flavor of life. There in the program are well over 200 plays of traditional
songs and dances and local mini operas which are deeply liked by the people.
The National Songs and Dances
National Music includes five main categories of folk songs, national musical
instruments, local songs and dances and music, a genre of popular entertainment
music (consisting mainly of talking and singing, and traditional opera music).
In the civilization of all the nationalities, the performance of the local
songs and instrumental music and the local songs and dances each has its own
significant feature. The folk song "My Love, the Flowing Stream" enjoys the
most popular reputation. The national dance has not only a long history but
also multi-art forms and a great variety. There are over 20 nationalities
each of which has its own dance with unique feature and a nationality because
of its different branches or because of different areas they live in, has
also different forms of dance. The national dances are more often than not
linked with national traditional festivals. The festivities very often reach
their climax with the performance of thousands of dances in pageantry.
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