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Roles in Beijing Opera
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"The ten
Chinese characters shown on left is from a song sung in a Chinese New Year
Eve television program. It probably says everything about the roles in
Beijing Opera. The first five characters list the five role catagories.
The rest tells what roles appear in the plays, from the powerful supernatural
beings to animals like tigers and dogs. There are currently four main role
catagories in Beijing Opera. They are
Male Role ( Sheng ) ,
Female Role ( Dan ) ,
Painted Face Male ( Jing ) , and finally
Comedy Actor or Clown ( Chou ) .
Any role in these catagories or sub-catagories can be the leading role
in a play. Except the second catagory, the other three catagories are for
male charactors.
As for why the role catagories take the names of Sheng , Dan ,
Jing and Chou , there is an explanation. It is said that they
were chosen to mean the opposite. Sheng in Chinese may mean "strange"
or "rare", but the chief male is a character of most seen. Dan ,
which means "morning", "masculine", is in contravory
with the femiline nature of the characters. Jing means "clean".
In fact, the paintings on face make the charaters look like unclean but
colorful. And Chou in Chinese sometime represents the animal "Cow",
which, in some aspects, is slow and tardy. In contrast, Chou charaters
are usually active and quick.
Sheng -- Male Role:
Sheng has some sub-catagories, including Senior, Junior, Acrobatic,
Junior Acrobatic, Child, Red-face, Poor, Official, etc. These are
classified according to the role's characteristics. Male roles are either
civil or military. The actors themselves are mainly trained for three main
parts: Senior Male Role or Lao Sheng, a middle-aged or old man who
wears a beard, Junior Male Role or Xiao Sheng (Hsiao sheng), a young
man; and Acrobatic Male Role or Wu Sheng , a man of military tenor,
especially skilled in acrobatics.
Lao Sheng actors are r"
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