Huangmei Shan Zhang Hotel Anqing
Huangmei Shanzhuang is a 3-star hotel providing rooms, restaurant, tea house, fishing and Huangmei Opera performance.
Huangmei Opera
It was a very enjoyable evening with friends in Anqing, first out to dinner and then off to the charming opera house where we sat in a side balcony and ate a tray of fresh fruit while watching the show. This type of opera originated over 200 years ago with a revival going on now. It has a rural folksong and dance theme with music that is performed in a continuous high pitch. Not sounding like a typical Chinese opera, it would take time for me to get used to the sound. Still, it was rather fascinating and colourful!
Live: Backstage secrets of the Huangmei Opera
Go backstage at the home of the Huangmei Opera in Anqing, China’s east Anhui Province to experience the pre-show drama live, before settling in for a taste of Saturday night’s big performance.
Yuexi gaoqiang 岳西高腔 from Anqing, Anhui, China
A stage performance of Yuexi gaoqiang (岳西高腔), a rare form of local opera (difang xiqu, 地方戏曲) from Yuexi County (岳西县), northwestern Anqing (安庆市), southwestern Anhui province, eastern China, in the area of the Dabie Mountains (Dabie Shan, 大别山). The story performed here is entitled Long Nü Xiao Du 《龙女小度》. The singing is accompanied only by percussion instruments.
Performed by the Anhui Province Yuexi County Theater Troupe (安徽省岳西县剧团) of Yuexi County (岳西县), northwestern Anqing (安庆市), southwestern Anhui province, eastern China, April 2005.
The story may be summarized as follows (thanks to Mr. Gregory Dubinsky for sharing this summary):
This is the Buddhist story of the Dragon Daughter (Chinese: Long Nü, 龙女), an acolyte of the bodhisattva Guanyin, who has descended from the heavens to test the faith and purity of a Buddhist monk. She flirts with him and offers all sorts of temptations, which he piously refuses. In the end, he tries to expel the evil thoughts from her mind, whereupon she reveals herself in her true form and tells him that she was merely testing him.
Yuexi gaoqiang has a history of over 300 years, originating in the late Ming Dynasty when a singing style called Qingyang qiang (青阳腔) was introduced to Yuexi from Qingyang County (青阳县), Chizhou (池州市), southern Anhui province, and adopted by the literati there. Qingyang qiang swept the world of drama and became extremely popular during the Ming and Qing dynasties. It was especially favored by enthusiastic amateurs, including educated people and civil servants, who often performed it on village stages as one of the entertainments for lantern festivals (denghui, 灯会). In the late Qing Dynasty its popularity began to be eclipsed by newer forms of theater including Anqing tanqiang (安庆弹腔, also known as Hui diao, 徽调, the basis for today's Huiju, 徽剧) and Huangmei xi (黄梅戏). Qingyang qiang has had a significant influence on numerous later forms of local opera, including Huiju (徽剧, from Anhui), Xiangju (湘剧, from Hunan), Ganju (赣剧, from Jiangxi), hua gu xi (花鼓戏), cai cha xi (采茶戏), and Huangmei xi (黄梅戏).
Qingyang qiang inherited its style from the earlier traditions of Yuyao qiang (余姚腔) and Yiyang qiang (弋阳腔), two of the four major singing styles which were popularly used in local opera forms in the eastern Chinese provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang (in the case of Yuyao qiang) and Jiangxi (in the case of Yiyang qiang) during the late Ming Dynasty. The name Yuexi gaoqiang was coined to refer to Yuexi's version of Qingyang qiang in the 1950s, with gaoqiang (literally high tune) referring to its use of high-pitched falsetto singing, in contrast to the lower-pitched style of Kunqu singing, which was sometimes described as diqiang (低腔, literally low tune).
In 2006 the tradition of Yuexi gaoqiang, centering on Yuexi County (岳西县), northwestern Anqing (安庆市), southwestern Anhui province, eastern China, was included in the first batch of 518 traditions inscribed in the National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of China (第一批国家级非物质文化遗产名录) by China's State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH, 国家文物局), an agency under the aegis of the Ministry of Culture (中华人民共和国文化部) that was formerly known as the State Cultural Relics Bureau (国家文物局文化部).
In 2010 the Yuexi Gaoqiang Heritage Center (岳西高腔传承中心) was established in Yuexi County, and this is its website:
安徽地方戏曲岳西高腔《龙女小度》国家级非物质文化遗产项目
More information:
Huangmei Opera documentary (part 1 of 10): Music Born in Shipai Town
The English-language version of part 1 (Music Born in Shipai Town) of the 10-part documentary Huangmei Opera, produced by CCTV-9 Documentary in 2010.
The documentary covers the origins and development of Huangmei opera (Huangmei xi, 黄梅戏), an important form of local opera (difang xiqu, 地方戏曲) from China.
CCTV-9 Documentary is the documentary channel of the China Central Television (CCTV) television network, based in China.
The Shipai Town (石牌镇) referred to in the episode's title is located in Huaining County (怀宁县), Anqing (安庆市), southwestern Anhui province (安徽省), eastern China. Shipai nurtured the development of Huangmei opera as well as other local opera forms such as Huiju (徽剧).
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