Xiamen Opera

Author: Zeng Xuewen
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Publish Date: 1999-08-01
Features: Through the vicissitudes of time, Xiamen opera has journeyed from yesterday to today, experiencing many twists and transformations. With the celebration of festivals and religious activities, opera has been widely disseminated among the people and deeply rooted, becoming an extremely important art form and a vital part of Xiamen culture. Xiamen opera rose alongside the development of Xiamen and flourished with its progress. It provides people with emotional expression and aesthetic pleasure through its unique aesthetic approach. It exudes the fragrance of the earth and demonstrates vigorous vitality. Through the passage of time, Xiamen opera has always been intertwined with the lives of the people, becoming an indispensable part of their daily existence. A performance not only offers an opportunity for human interaction and communication but also provides a shared basis for their collective psychological experience, becoming a form of communal psychological engagement and spiritual cultivation. The people's aesthetic appreciation also serves as an inexhaustible source of artistic life for it. Xiamen opera is rich and diverse, with a long history, continuously enduring through the ages. Like a flowing stream, it surges forward, carrying vibrant performances through constant ups and downs and selections. When discussing Xiamen opera, we cannot treat it in isolation, as its rise and development are inseparable from the spread of folk music, folk dance, and folk storytelling. Therefore, this book will approach the history of the rise and fall of Xiamen opera from the broader perspective of Xiamen's folk performing arts.