"ordinary class"

China used to be a place to train opera actors.

The original intention of the training class refers to the drama team that combines learning and acting in the old days, which is the necessary and only way to become an actor.

Later, it was extended to formal vocational skills education. The so-called training does not mean "birth", but refers to the watershed of formal training or self-study.

Keban originated in the Ming Dynasty. During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, there were Haiyan's children's classes and Kunqu or Keban classes. After the mid-Qing dynasty, with the prosperity of local operas, regular classes have mushroomed and swept the country. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, a number of large-scale specialized classes for training childhood actors appeared one after another. Among them, the representative ones are Fulian Chengshe, Chongya Society, Yi Sushe, Kunju Opera Studio, etc. They have accumulated rich experience in art communication and formed a set of strict teaching methods, and set the training period as 7 years to 10 years. Those who have studied drama in these classes are called "cultivating students"

In the past, some opera actors were apprentices who learned from teachers, belonging to individual families or private schools.

Keban is a later collective art learning institution, which has trained a large number of artistic talents.

There are many classes in Beijing Opera, such as Song Zhucheng, Xiao Rongchun, Bin Qingshe and Fu Liancheng. It can be seen that studying in regular classes was once the main form of cultivating opera talents.

Because the performance unit at that time was not called a troupe, it was called a troupe. The earliest training class was run by a troupe, such as the Sizhentang training class run by Sanqing Class led by Cheng Changgeng, the originator of Beijing Opera.

The troupe is mainly acting, and the class is mainly studying drama.

Subject, that is, the meaning of category and grade, because since the Han Dynasty, scholars have determined the second grade through examination subjects. So in the old society, learning from teachers was also called entering a certain subject, and all the students enrolled in that year were in the same subject. A subject that is admitted or introduced to a drama team is called joining the league, or it can be called joining the league. For example, Fu Liancheng's class is divided into eight divisions, namely, Xi Zi Division, Lian Zi Division, Fu Zi Division, New Word Division, Cross Division, Yuanzi Division, Yunzi Division and Qing Zi Division.

Because the imperial examination is the product of feudal society, the imperial examination also has a strong feudal color. For example, all classes worship Tang as their ancestors and worship him every day. Anyone who enters the class must make a written evidence, just like making a whoring contract, which not only means beating, scolding and corporal punishment, but also means serving three years in prison after work. Therefore, it was dubbed as a joke in the old society, and seven years in the class was called seven-year prison. However, due to strict teaching and management requirements, teachers have a certain sense of responsibility to preach and teach their ancestors, so they have also trained a large number of outstanding talents.