Sunday, April 13, 2008

Chinese arts of the theater

The Chinese art of the theater dates from the dynasty of Shang in 1500 A.C. Now it has so many subcategories in the Chinese theater as opera of Beijing, acrobats, Clowning, shades puppetry, the music of the developed etc. and the acrobatics in the dynasty of Shang with many games that have these elements. The arts of the theater foment prospered during the dynasty of Yuan. The structure began to develop and to gain the recognition through whole number of China. The style of Yuan is reflected in the opera of Beijing that is alive until this date.

The Chinese arts of the theater imply four abilities mainly. They are voice, dance, song and acrobats. The dance becomes along with the action and the combat is a part of the acrobats. In all these the basic emphasis is in the beauty of the movement and supposes the agents to dominate the four of them because they are the integral parts of the Chinese arts of the theater. Certain actions are a code and they are possible to be interpreted on a certain event. Like when an agent it walks in a circular motion, that average he is traveling on a distance, in other cases if the agents in stage straighten their cloth and the main gear means that the main character is going to say something important.

The ear dynasty testified the ascent of puppetry of the shade. It reached such high altitude that a temp school named the garden of the pear was begun by Ming Huang that produced musical drama and knew the agents of this school like the children of the garden of the pear. There two subcategories of puppetry, the Cantonese and Pekingese of the shade. The difference consisted of the manufacture of the marionette. The marionettes of the Cantonese were greater with the characters that had symbolic colors according to the papers that are representing. They were done outside of heavy leather and the bars perpendicular were tied the head of the marionette. The marionettes of Pekingese more delicate and small and were colored shiningly. They were done outside fine and of leather translucent and the bars were tied to the neck of the marionette that were doubled in ninety degrees and worked with parallel to the body of the marionette. The argument was generally equal for the Cantonese and Pekingese. The Chinese titiriteros thought in an historical superstition that the marionettes come at night alive if the head of the marionette were left intact with the body. So the head and the body separated and were stored in two diverse boxes.

The demonstrations are appearing generally in the rectangular platforms with the hearing surrounds that it from three sides. Shoujiu is an embellished curtain that divides the curtain in two. The stage is adorned little with more emphasis in the agents who use the shining clothes and the maquillaje and less number of supports are used thus during the operation. The suit differentiates according to the role that is played. The king and his family use the yellow suits where whereas an aligned high soldier uses an equipment purple. Mang or the suit of pitón is the name given to this class of suits. A character of the high row often uses the red clothes with rich adornments in the form of a dragoon and other characters of one more a lower row use the blue suit. A young character uses the white clothes, a older personality uses target, green brown olive or and the rest of the suits of the black of the wearing down of the secondary actors.

Music gambles in the instruments such as jinghu, small the two sequences, the acute violin and Rouen, laúd plucking of the point with the circular body. The operation begins with I strike severe of the drums known like Xiaoluo and Daluo. There are three classifications of the melodies that are played. The Aryan is the first class with two subcategories, Erhuang and Xipi. Xipi is used to express noisier expressions. Qupai is the second class that consists basically of instrumental harmonies that represent the event of a great event like a festival or a banquet or the entrance of an important character. The landlord of the percussion is the third class that includes fixed music of harmony.

The subject most of of the games is illusionistic and nor mainly realistic the Chinese popular stories of participation. The games also were written later in history and the dramas today include the Chinese version of international games such as nights of a plenary session verano' dream and king Lear.

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