[Drama] Yueyang Flower-drum Opera

Name: Flower-drum Opera

No.: Ⅳ—3

Type: Traditional Drama

Year of Application: 2006

Applicant: Yueyang City

Level: Provincial

Originated from folk songs, the flower-drum opera has gradually developed into its primary form with a female and a clown singing and dancing. With Over 400 traditional repertoires, flower-drum opera mainly depicts the folk’s live and tells stories about productive labor, love, and family conflicts. Its language is vivid and has distinctive local colors.

Yueyang Flower-drum Opera mainly prevails in Yueyang, Miluo, Linxiang and some towns in the south of Hubei Province. The main tune of Yueyang Flower-drum Opera is called "Qinqiang".

With Changsha accent as its stage language, Changsha Flower-drum Opera is popular in Changsha, Xiangtang, Zhuzhou, Ningxiang, Liuyang and Pingjiang, etc. It has great social impact and thus becomes the most popular flower-drum opera in Hunan Province. It has a history of over one hundred and sixty years and is developed from labor songs, folk songs and local flower drama. A large number of operetta and highlights are the most representative and unique part of Changsha Flower-drum Opera. It has three types of tunes, namely, "Chuandiao" "Daluoqiang" and "Xiaodiao". The accompany band for it can be divided into civil and military scenes.