Beijing Opera is our national opera. It has a history of over 200 years. It is the soul of Chinese narional culture. It came into being after 1790 ________ the four famous Anhui opera troupes (戏班) went to Beijing. Beijing Opera is ________ of historical stories, beautiful costumes (戏装) and wonderful performances (表演).
Its music and singing came from Xipi and Erhuang in Anhui and Hubei. There are mainly ________ kinds of roles in Beijing Opera: Sheng, Dan. Jing and Chou. The Sheng is a(n) ________ male actor. The Dan is a female role. The Jing is a male role with a painted face and the Chou is a comedy actor.
Beijing Opera presents plays and characters mainly by four artistic ________ . They are singing, speaking, acting and martial arts (唱、念、做、打). These ways enable audience to be encouraged by the performers’ feelings, language, music and action.
Bejing Opera is ________ by generations (代) of Chinese people. Today, an increasing number of young people are becoming ________ in it. Foreign people are also visiting China to taste Beijing Opera. I think the ________ makeup(彩妆) on Beijing Opera actors faces is very interesting.
What’s that? It is called facial painting. It is also ________ as “lianpu” in Chinese. Different colors of “lianpu” ________ different personality traits (性格特征). For example, red represents loyalty (忠诚), black represents honesty and white represents cunning(诡诈).
Beijing Opera contains the soul of Chinese culture. Its special charm encourage generations of Chinese people.
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