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Comparison between Chinese Peking Opera and Japanese Kabuki
Beijing Opera: The stage art of Beijing Opera is in literature, performance, music, singing, gongs and drums, makeup, facial makeup and so on.

On the other hand, through the long-term stage practice of countless artists, a set of rhythmic, standardized, mutually restrictive and complementary programs has been formed. As an artistic means to create a stage image, it is very rich and its usage is very strict. If you can't master these programs, you can't complete the creation of Peking Opera stage art, and its performance art tends to combine reality with reality, which goes beyond the limitation of stage space and time to the maximum extent, thus achieving the artistic realm of "expressing the spirit with form, having both form and spirit". The performance requires exquisiteness and exquisiteness, and it is everywhere; It is required to sing melodiously and euphemistically, and the voice is full of emotion; Martial arts is not won by bravery, but by "martial arts singing"

Kabuki: The actors are all men. There are two kinds of kabuki themes: one is to describe the world of nobles and warriors, and the other is to express people's lives. Although foreigners can't understand its highly stylized stage language, it emphasizes the posture, movements and eyes of the opera effect, as well as its posturing, stunts and exaggerated appearance, and changing clothes quickly and magically, which are the fun of appreciating kabuki performances. Kabuki performances are divided into "famine" with samurai stories in history and "peace" with love stories between men and women in folk. Kabuki's stage scenery is very exquisite, which not only embodies Japanese floral art, but also has a rotating stage and a lifting stage, which is ever-changing, and with gorgeous dance performances, it can be described as luxurious and gorgeous. The "female characters" interpreted by the actors are illusory and enchanting, giving people a sense of beauty beyond reality.

Kabuki is more popular than any classical drama in Japan, and many new scripts and works have been produced in recent years. Kabuki and Chinese Peking Opera are known as "sisters of oriental art tradition". Huang Zunxian, a poet in the late Qing Dynasty, praised in "Japanese Miscellaneous Poems": "Dance begins, jade rustles, iron plates stop knocking, how many infatuated children cry, play together and watch chrysanthemums together." He regards kabuki as "meeting an old friend in a foreign land".