Research About The Clown Role Performing Arts Of Southern Jiangxi Tea-picking Opera

There is a long and deep history about the clown role performing arts of Southern Jiangxi Tea-picking Opera, which originated from the amusing activities when the ancient residents picking-up tea in the southern area of China's Jiangxi Province. With very strong breath of life and broad mass basis, this Tea-picking Opera clown role performing arts spread all over Jiangxi province, and through which the clown role performing arts also absorb beneficial nutrients from neighboring province's other kinds of operas. By countless clown role artists'innovation, deepening and enhancing during the long history, today the Tea-picking Opera clown role performing arts have already evolved into a kind of performing form full of drama effectiveness, with various performing characteristics, and with inclusiveness & flexibility as well.Based on the predecessors research, with many of the local investigation and research of relevant cultural & historical data, this paper tries to study the formation and development of clown role at the Tea-picking Opera by all means. Through the detailed analysis on Aria, dialogue & dancing of this clown role, the developing trend and performing characteristics of this clown role's performing arts appear more clear to us. Southern Jiangxi Tea-picking Opera clown role arts take the equally treating of Aria, dancing & playing as its salient feature. It is also to say that where there is playing there will be accompanied by Aria, and where there is Aria there will appear dancing, each of the three is indispensable. The Dance characteristic mainly reflects in: dwarf steps, single long sleeves and fan flowers. These dancing words are refined from working people's typical actions during their daily tea-picking activities in the mountains. By means of witty language, tactful & sweet Aria, and natural & fresh performance, the clown role successfully shapes various art images with distinct personalities and funny & lovely style, and through which mercilessly ironic the ugly or enthusiastically praise the brightness of people's lives. This unique, self-contained drama attracts generation after generation audience, always keeps alive at the local and surrounding cities and suburbs, and appears vigorous vitality even in today.Through clown role's Aria, Dialogue, Doing & Dancing, this paper attempts to draw out an inner relationship chart with clear level and rigorous structure about the Southern Jiangxi Tea-picking Opera clown role performing arts, and to explore the systematic characteristics of this clown role performing arts. Based on all the research above, this paper also provides some theoretically suggestions about the inheritance and development of the clown role performing arts finally.