The title of "Five Golden Flowers" was given by the local media when Anhui Huangmei Opera Theatre went to Hong Kong to perform in the 1980s, and it is still in use today. In 2006, the media named He Yun, Cheng Xiaojun, Qin Wang, Wu Meilian and Tong Ting as five young actors in Huangmei Opera, and called Huangmei Opera "the new five golden flowers".
However, what impressed the fans most was the "five golden flowers" of Huangmei Opera. In 1980s, they made great contributions to the development of Huangmei Opera. Ma Lan, Wu Qiong, Wu Yaling, Yuan Mei and Yang Jun are all classmates of Huangmei Opera Class of Anhui Art School. After graduation, they were assigned to work in Anhui Huangmei Opera Theatre.
After the classmates became colleagues, the "five golden flowers" were also fiercely competitive, and the relationship once fell apart. In the end, the running water and the deep affection of the classmates repaired the rift of feelings. The "five golden flowers" in Huangmei Opera are all popular in middle age. After the glory, the aura on their heads gradually faded.
Characteristics of Huangmei Opera
Huangmei Opera, formerly known as Huangmeidiao and tea-picking opera, originated in Huangmei, Hubei Province and developed in Anqing, Anhui Province. Huangmei Opera, together with Beijing Opera, Yue Opera, Pingju Opera and Henan Opera, is called "the five major operas in China" and is also the main local opera in Anhui Province. Hubei, Jiangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Hongkong and Taiwan Province provinces also have professional or amateur Huangmei Opera performance groups, which are widely welcomed.
Huangmei Opera is a kind of drama gradually formed and developed from folk songs, yangko, tea songs, tea-picking lanterns and Hua Gutiao, from rural areas to cities. It has absorbed the factors of Han Opera, Chu Opera, Gao Qiang, tea-picking opera, Beijing Opera and many other operas, and gradually formed its own artistic characteristics.
Huangmei opera is simple and fluent in singing, good at lively lyricism and rich in expressive force; The performance is simple and meticulous, and it is famous for its truthfulness and vividness. A song "The Match of Heaven and Fairy" has made Huangmei Opera popular all over the country and has a high reputation overseas.
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