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As one of Taiwan′s local operas, Hakka Xiqu has its own artistic features: a clown with two female roles or a clown with a female role to tell the story about the expression of love between men and women, love songs, folk songs or praise each other, and Shack front opera. This paper focuses on the funny and humorous performing art of the clowns and discusses the variation and context of the clowns in the historical stages of Hakka Xiqu.
Moreover, as the soul figure, the clowns of Hakka Xiqu is characterized by oral art, singing, and funny body. Its oral artistic expression includes Hakka proverbs, proverbs, slang, master′s words, puns, and humorous expressions, which are the most common humorous expression of the clowns of Hakka Xiqu. In this section, the author attempts to introduce the aesthetics of ＂humor＂ with the humor and comic language of the clowns of Hakka Xiqu text, and to explore the comparison between the two in the performance of comedy, so as to make the clowns of Hakka Xiqu comical and the language of banter constitute the artistic expression of aesthetics. Chapter IV: improvisation and skills in Hakka outdoor theatre. Taking the performance and inheritance of the clowns by Zhang Youcai as an example, after sorting out the oral manuscripts of three young and middle-aged actors, the author analyses and understands the characteristics of the formation of improvisation of the clowns in the outdoor theatre, and makes a ＂two-track＂ discussion based on.
After comprehensive research, discussion and analysis, the artistic context of Hakka Xiqu’s clown performance is sorted out, and the future development of Hakka Xiqu is expected to reflect on the essential art of the performance of the clowns, such as how to preserve and pay for the three-legged Tea-Picking Opera of Hakka Xiqu, or how to combine the spirit of comedy, in an attempt to help the clowns of Hakka Xiqu in the performance, increase its connotation or innovative development, which is expected to be the clowns of Hakka Xiqu. There is room for development in various performance fields, so as to explore more possibilities of Hakka Xiqu clowns performing art as far as possible.
Keywords: Hakka-Xiqu, The clowns, Funny Jokes, Humor, Improvisation
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