Huagu Opera
01 · Historical Records
Drawing on the Hunan volume of the Annals of Chinese Xiqu and local Hengyang materials, Hengzhou huaguxi is a folk short-play genre popular in southern Hunan in the late Ming and early Qing, formed by slightly refining the Hengzhou local dialect as its stage speech; by the mid-Qing troupes were already performing at temple fairs and festivals, and after the 1950s professional troupes were set up.
02 · Core Techniques & Process
Its vocal styles are mainly the “suona paizi” and “chuanzi diao”, its performing roles mainly xiaosheng, xiaodan and xiaochou, the chou being the most prominent. Hengzhou huaguxi holds a high place in the traditional cultural life of the people of southern Hunan. Its commonly performed plays include Liu Hai Plays with the Golden Toad, The Chart of Longevity and The Hall of a Hundred Endurances.
Liu Hai Plays with the Golden Toad
One of the commonly performed plays of Hengzhou huaguxi.
The Chart of Longevity
One of the commonly performed plays of Hengzhou huaguxi.
The Hall of a Hundred Endurances
One of the commonly performed plays of Hengzhou huaguxi.
03 · Regional Records & Related Items
Hengzhou huaguxi is a folk short-play genre popular in southern Hunan in the late Ming and early Qing, formed by slightly refining the Hengzhou local dialect as its stage speech.
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04 · Cultural Value & Contemporary Safeguarding
Protecting Hengzhou huaguxi will promote the carrying forward of fine traditional culture, especially Huxiang culture, and will also play a part in enriching and perfecting the history of local drama and of local folk art. The inheritors, national second-class actors, are handsome and spirited in appearance and vivid and lively in performance with full operatic flavour, generous in their humour and elegant in their boldness, highlighting the portrayal of character so that their roles become vivid, and with brisk singing showing the strong flavour of huaguxi.
05 · Associated Representative Bearers
Representative bearers recorded under this item, organized by national nomination batch:
- Lvjinling 03-1119
- Zhou Qinquan 03-1120
- Chixiuyun 03-1121
- Yang Yuping 03-1122
- Yang Jiane 03-1123
- Pan Aifang 04-1684
- Yang Xiaolan 04-1685
- Ouyang Juewen 04-1686
- Zhou Yuling 05-2440
- Wei Guifeng 05-2441
- Wan Baoying 05-2442
- Cengmeiling 05-2443
- Hu Ruishi 05-2444
- Du Meishuang 05-2445
- Liao Hanmei 05-2446
- Li Xiaojia 05-2447
- Li Saijian
- Liu Liurong
- He Xiangan
06 · Authoritative Sources & Bibliography
Sources
China Intangible Cultural Heritage Network (ihchina.cn)
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