An Investigation Analysis Into The Inheritance Of Local Opera Erjia Xian In Suixian County

Erjia Xian is a kind of provincial drama in China, which is popular in parts of Henan, Shandong and Anhui Province. It is generally named as “Erjia Xian” in Henan and Anhui, with another name “Liangjia Xian” in Shandong, and is also called “Big Five Sounds” or “Half Bowl Honey” in other places. The drama dated back to 300 years ago, and is mainly accompanied by Si Xian. It gets its name by the special way of performance---every two strings clamping one horsehair. The singing sound is beautiful, full of freshness, vividness and elegance. It is widely loved by people because of its strong rural flavour.Erjia Xian originally occurred and gradually developed in Hua County, Henan Province and Heze city, Shandong Province at the beginning of 1950 s. After well developed, it was spread to boundies of Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu and Anhui. Sui County is the first in Henan Province to introduce Erjia Xian and founded Erjia Xian studio. However, flooded by history and culture, Erjia Xian once disappeared several times. With the development of modern society and booming cultural life, there tend to be varieties of entertainments in our life. Therefore, Erjia Xian, as well as some other local dramas, is faced with existence crisis.As the writer realizes, not only does the drama deliver Chinese excellent traditional culture, it is also a great crystal of traditional folk music, meanwhile it well expresses the native characteristic of local culture.The writer conducted a local investigation about folk music in Sui County, at the same time carried out a thorough survey about how to deliver Erjia Xian.Sui County Erjia Xian troup is the main survey object.There are four parts in this article:Part One: Introduction Introduce the cause, aim and meaning of the Sui County Erjia Xian study Part Two: Summary State the background of Erjia Xian in Sui County through the introduction of the city Sui Part T Three: Introduce the artistic characters of Sui County Erjia Xian, Four: Using collected data through investigation and research in Sui County, think more about Erjia Xian in Sui.