Kunshan Opera, which originated in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, is known as the mother of China opera. What kind of performance is it?

Kunqu Opera is not the mother of China opera. Anyone who knows historical geography knows that Kunshan is located in the lower reaches of Taihu Lake. Before the flood was solved, ancestors did not dare to settle down and live in the lower reaches of Taihu Lake. Then, the ancestors living in the upper reaches of Taihu Lake were more civilized and advanced than those living in the lower reaches. It may take hundreds of years. Yiyang Opera, Haiyan Opera and Yu Yaoqiang are all contemporary local operas, as well as the singing art of Beiqu Opera. Kunshan Opera has made some innovations on the basis of absorbing the above operas.

The birth of Kunqu opera adapted to the political ideology in the early Ming Dynasty. At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Emperor Hongwu needed to cultivate self-cultivation and recuperate, and the impatience and anxiety of the people were abandoned in the war. The water mill tune of Kunqu opera does have this function. Let the founding marshals calm down and the military commanders listen to Kunqu opera, and there will be no trouble. Civil servants will have time to manage the new regime. From Hongwu to Chongzhen in 277, the Ming Dynasty was immersed in the water mill of Kunqu Opera.

The former emperors of the Qing dynasty were smarter than the emperors in the middle and late Ming dynasty and had an insight into this shortcoming. Therefore, they used Huiban "Peking Opera" instead of Kunqu Opera in Qianlong to awaken the children of the Eight Banners not to immerse themselves in the rustling of soft cotton wool and wear away their blood.

Kunqu opera is needed to build a harmonious society.