The Second Rise of the Role of the Male Dan and its Opera Historical Significance

Jiekang Xu

doi:10.30560/hssr.v8n1p133

Jiekang Xu Jiangsu Normal University, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30560/hssr.v8n1p133

Keywords: Dan role, raw role, status in the theater

Abstract

Sheng and Dan roles are indispensable in the performance of Beijing Opera , and the change of status between the two also reflects the choice of the times. Since the formation and development of the Dan role, it has gone through two big open and close rise and decline. The second rise of Danjiao in the Republican period is also the result of the dual role of Danjiao's own factors and the factors of the times. There are three reasons: First, the widespread dissemination of new bourgeois ideas, so that the idea of people-oriented in-depth, the qualifications of the actor as a national also gradually be recognized by the people. Coupled with the outlawing of the Ap Yu place, further improving the status of Danjiao. Secondly, the Danjiao followed the trend and actively participated in the improvement, which won a broader development space for itself. Thirdly, the policy of women entering the park, the change of aesthetic concepts, and the rise of the Danjiao movement made the Danjiao further gain a broad audience base. Danjiao called Dan was created in the era when the center of gravity of Peking Opera development was shifted from Shengjiao to Danjiao.

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