The Study Of Acrobatic Fighting In Chinese Peking Opera

The traditional Chinese character "戯"(xi), which means the Chinese traditional theater, can be divided into "虚"and":戈",referring "virtual" and "fighting" respectively. And the word "wu" is well expressed by "da". The four categories of Peking Opera include song, speech, dance-acting and combating. And combating is not only the indispensable method, but also refers to the martial plays in Peking Opera.The development of the acrobatic fighting in Chinese traditional theatre has assimilated the skills of martial art and combined with dancing, extracted the fighting scenes of life into the art form by generations of artists. On the stage, combating is a very important way to show battles, heroic behavior, etc. The popularity of combating is closely related to martial art and acrobatics.The competition between "hua" and "ya" can be traced back to Qing Dynasty as plenty of combating plays came into being. The highlight of acrobatic fighting was in the time of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic after the Peking Opera was formed. Dingjunshan, the first movie in China was a play with singing and combating. The paper assumes to learn these parts from the history of China, and studies the origin and development of "combat" according to the national psychology and the ancient chivalry culture. It is trying to fill the vacancy of related research and figuring out the solution at the same time, which is essential to the inheritance and development of combating" re p ertory in Peking Opera.The fundamental aim is to prosper Peking Opera and promote the Chinese traditional culture.