A Superficial Exploration Of The Costume In Suzhou Kun Opera

Kun Opera, as "the ancestors of all kinds of opera", which was announced of one of the "Humans' oral and incorporeal legacy", is a bridge between the former opera and the latter . Such as the performance art of Kun Opera , the costume in Kun Opera has inherited the tradition of division between the southern opera and northern multiopera originating from Song Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty , formed a costume system mianly based on clothes of Ming Dynasty , artisied gradually, and eventually become the universal "dramatic clothes" out problems of dynasties , seasons , districts and kinds of opera . The costume in Kun Opera always had an attractive style during the process of its birth and growth. Especially between the years of "Jiaqing" and "Wanli", along with Suzhou Kun Opera, the costume in Suzhou Kun Opera reached its peak . It was then that actress or actors of Kun Opera wore carefully and strictly hand—made costumes and the basic form of division in production of the clothes was decided .At the same time, set in the cultural surrounding of Suzhou , when it trend to mature , Suzhou Kun Opera costume took on a distinctive art feature such as decoration , expression , formulation , symbolization , and eventually ,it showed a kind of unique cultural meaning .