Huangmei opera

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Title

Huangmei opera

Subject

Intangible Heritage

Description

Huangmei opera is one of the five major Chinese opera genres, formerly known as Huangmei tune and Caicha opera, which originated in Huangmei, Hubei Province and developed in Anqing, Anhui Province. Huangmei opera began in the countryside and later entered the city, absorbing the singing styles of Beijing opera, Chu opera and Han opera, and eventually forming its own unique style: a strong country voice, a common language structure, a rich musical singing style, and a unique idyllic style of quotation. The singing style of Huangmei opera belongs to the board change body, there are three major cavities: flower cavity, colour cavity and main tune. Huangmei opera to lyricism, rich rhythm, singing pure and fresh, delicate and moving, to bright and lyrical, with rich expressive power, and easy to understand, easy to popularise, loved by the masses around. His masterpieces include "The Matching of the Immortals", "The Lady in Harness" and "The Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden".

Source

wordlheritage2022

Date

18th century

Contributor

dy28

Language

English

Type

Intangible

Identifier

539

Date Submitted

10/05/2022

Date Modified

10/05/2022

Spatial Coverage

current,30.532,117.115;

Europeana

Object

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HuangmeiOpera.jpg

Europeana Type

TEXT

Intangible Item Type Metadata

Prim Media

1008

Citation

“Huangmei opera,” STAGE, accessed December 13, 2025, https://stage.openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/items/show/982.

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