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    Peking opera is a traditional Chinese art form that combines music, singing, acting, dance, and acrobatics. Students undergo rigorous training from a young age, practicing skills daily. There are several main roles - sheng are male roles, dan are female roles, and others include painted face roles. Each role has specific characteristics relating to personality, costume, makeup, vocal style, and skills like combat. Performers must master techniques in singing, speech, dance, and combat.

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    Peking opera is a traditional Chinese art form that combines music, singing, acting, dance, and acrobatics. Students undergo rigorous training from a young age, practicing skills daily. There are several main roles - sheng are male roles, dan are female roles, and others include painted face roles. Each role has specific characteristics relating to personality, costume, makeup, vocal style, and skills like combat. Performers must master techniques in singing, speech, dance, and combat.

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    Peking opera is a traditional Chinese art form that combines music, singing, acting, dance, and acrobatics. Students undergo rigorous training from a young age, practicing skills daily. There are several main roles - sheng are male roles, dan are female roles, and others include painted face roles. Each role has specific characteristics relating to personality, costume, makeup, vocal style, and skills like combat. Performers must master techniques in singing, speech, dance, and combat.

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    Peking opera is a traditional Chinese art form that combines music, singing, acting, dance, and acrobatics. Students undergo rigorous training from a young age, practicing skills daily. There are several main roles - sheng are male roles, dan are female roles, and others include painted face roles. Each role has specific characteristics relating to personality, costume, makeup, vocal style, and skills like combat. Performers must master techniques in singing, speech, dance, and combat.

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    The key takeaways are that Peking Opera combines music, acting, dancing and acrobatics. Students undergo rigorous training from a young age. There are different male and female roles that require distinct skills.

    The main roles are Sheng (male), Dan (female), Jing (painted face male) and Chou (clown). The female roles include Laodan, Wudan, Daomadan and Qingyi, Huadan.

    The main male roles are Xiaosheng, Wusheng and Laosheng. Xiaosheng plays young handsome roles, Wusheng are martial roles and Laosheng are dignified older roles.

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    GROUP ONE
    INTRODUCTION
    CHINA IS KNOWN FOR THEIR
    TRADITIONAL THEATER ART
    FORM,THE PEKING OPERA OR
    BEIJING OPERA WHICH COMBINES
    MUSIC,VOCAL PERFORMANCE,
    PANTOMIME,DANCE AND
    ACROBATICS
    • PUPILS WERE OFTEN HANDPICKED AT A
    YOUNG AGE BY A TEACHER AND TRAINED FOR
    7 YEARS ON CONTRACT FROM THE CHILD’S
    PARENTS.AFTER 1911,TRAINING TOOK PLACE
    IN MORE FORMALLY ORGANIZED SCHOOLS.
    STUDENTS OF THESE SCHOOLS ROSE AS EARLY
    AS 5 O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING FOR THE
    EXERCISES. DAYTIME WAS SPENT LEARNING
    THE SKILS OF ACTING AND COMBAT AND
    SENIOR STUDENTS PERFORMED IN OUTSIDE
    THEATERS IN THE EVENING.
    • SHENG-IS THE MAIN ROLE IN PEKING
    OPERA
    • 1.XIAOSHENG-ACTORS ARE OFTEN
    INVOLVED WITH BEAUTIFUL WOMEN
    BY VIRTUE OF THE HANDSOME AND
    YOUNG IMAGE THEY PROJECT.
    • 2.WUSHENG-IS A MARTIAL CHARACTER FOR ROLES
    INVOLVING COMBAT.THEY ARE HIGHLY TRAINED IN
    ACROBATICS AND HAVE A NATURAL VOICE WHEN SINGING
    • 3.LAOSHENG-IS A DIGNIFIED OLDER ROLE.THESE CHARACTERS
    HAVE A GENTLE AND CULTIVATED DISPOSITION,AND WEAR
    SENSIBLE COSTUMES.
    • DAN-REFERS TO ANY FEMALE ROLE IN PEKING OPERA
    • 1.LAODAN-AN OLD WOMAN
    • A Laodan plays an old and clever woman. Unlike other female
    roles, a Laodan wears no make-up, and her costume is more
    subdued in color and design. Her voice is natural and not high-
    pitched.
    • 2.WUDAN-A MARTIAL WOMAN
    • Wudan is a female acrobatic role, and requires a high
    standard of acrobatics. The costume of the role is simple and
    clothing is convenient for her movements.
    • 3.DAOMADAN-ARE YOUNG FEMALE
    WARRIORS
    • Daomadan is a female warrior role in
    Peking Opera. Like the male role of
    Wusheng, Daomadan actors train mainly
    for action, singing, and performing
    skillfully. The features of the role are the
    head-dress and military weapons. The
    most famous Daomadan role is Mu
    Guiying, who is a heroine in Chinese
    history, famed for her military prowess.
    • 4.QINGYI-ARE VIRTUOUS AND ELITE
    WOMEN
    • Qingyi is the main woman roles in
    traditional Chinese drama. Qingyi is the
    most important role in Peking Opera and
    plays dignified, serious, and decent
    characters, which are mostly wives or
    mothers. The roles dress in yellow clothes
    and feature a small range of motion, and
    singingwith a pure and high-pitched
    quality.
    • 5.HUADAN-ARE VIVACIOUS AND UNMARRIED
    WOMEN
    • Huadan is the vivacious and unmarried woman
    role inPeking Opera. Compared to a Qingyi, a
    Huadan is not of such a high social class, and
    she will take the attention of the audience with
    her coy, coquettish, and quicker movements. Her
    costume is vivid in design and color, consisting
    of a jacket and trousers, and usually carrying a
    red handkerchief in her hand. The voice of
    Huadan has a gayer and stronger quality.
    •
    • JING-IS A PAINTED FACE MALE ROLE WHO PLAYS
    EITHERPRIMARY OR SECONDARY ROLES.THIS TYPE OF
    ROLE ENTAILS A FORCEFUL CHARACTER,WHICH
    MEANS THAT A JING ACTOR MUST HAVE A STRONG
    VOICE AND BE ABLE TO EXAGGERATE GESTURES.
    • People can know the role’s character based on his
    face color: red for good, black for brave, upright or
    reckless, white for treacherous and cunning, yellow for
    brutal, blue for wild.
    • Three main types of Jing are Tongchui, good at
    singing and usually a loyal general; Jiazi, good at
    acting with less emphasis on singing; and Wujing, a
    martial arts and acrobatics role.
    • CHOU-IS A MALE CLOWN ROLE.THE CHOU USUALLY PLAYS
    SECONDARY ROLES WHOSE NAME ALSO MEANS UGLY.IT
    REFLECTS THE TRADITIONAL BELIEF THAT THE CLOWN’S
    COMBINATION OF UGLINESS AND LAUGHTER COULD DRIVE
    AWAY EVIL SPIRITS
    • Chou is a comedy role in Peking Opera. It can be divided into
    two types: Wenchou, a civilian role such as a merchant or jailer;
    and Wuchou, a military role, skilled in acrobatics. The
    characteristic of this type of painted face role is a small patch
    of white chalk around the nose.
    • One of the famous roles in Peking opera is the Monkey King,
    who has a special position in the hearts of all who are
    interested in Chinese opera. With his quick, agile movements of
    his lithe body, and his blinking eyes, the Monkey King holds
    every minute of the audience’s attention.
    • PEKING OPERA PERFORMES UTILIZE FOUR
    MAIN SKILLS SUCH AS THE FOLLOWING:
    1. SONG
    2. SPEECH
    3. DANCE ACTING(INCLUDES PURE
    DANCE,PANTOMIME AND ALLOTHER TYPES
    OF DANCE)
    4. COMBAT(INCLUDES BOTH ACROBATICS AND
    FIGHTING WITH ALL MANNER OF
    WEAPONRY)
    • RED-DEVOTION,COURAGE,BRAVERY,UPRIGHTNESS AND
    LOYALTY
    • BLACK-ROUGHNESS AND FIERCENESS
    • YELLOW-FIERCENESS,AMBITION AND COOL-HEADEDNESS
    • PURPLE-UPRIGHTNESS,SOPHISTICATION AND COOL-
    HEADEDNESS
    • REDDISH PURPLE-JUST AND NOBLE CHARACTER
    • BLUE-LOYALTY,FIERCENESS AND SHARPNESS
    • WHITE-DANGEROUSNESS,SUSPICIOUSNESS AND
    CRAFTINESS.COMMONLY SEEN ON THE STAGE IS WHITE FACE
    FOR THE POWERFUL VILLAIN.
    • GREEN-IMPULSIVE,VIOLENT AND STUBBORNNESS

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