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[[File:戲棚_wiki_02.jpg|right|thumb|250x250px|Shen Gong Xi's playhouse]]
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'''Opera with divine powers''' (酬神戲) is a form of [[Chinese opera]] played at [[Nun|religious]] ceremonies, including for the gods' birthday, [[Miao shrine|temple]] opening, at [[miaohui]], [[Ghost Festival|ghost festival]], [[Dajiao|Daijiao]], and traditional festivals. It is the play performed to welcome the gods' race and is one of a series of celebrations held by the people to thank the gods and reward them for their blessings. Usually performed at temple fairs or theatres. In [[Guangdong]], it is mostly called '''Shen Gong Xi'''(神功戲), and in [[China (region)|China]], in the north, it is mostly called '''She Xi'''社戏 (the word "She" in the word "She Xi" refers to the place where the [[Sheshen]] was worshiped in the old days, and there is another saying that the word "She" was a small unit in the ancient region, and the drama was performed in the She, which was called She drama<ref>参见《〈辞海〉1999年索引本（音序）》第1480页。</ref>）((efn|The word “She” 社 originally meant soil god. It transitioned to meaning soil metaphorically as in [[Sheji]] or as a morpheme to mean social.

It can refer to administrative regions as in [[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]] usage

See [[Sheshen]] for more info on the etymology

))。On birthdays, where this form of opera is played, are those of the gods: [[Xuanwu (god)|Xuanwu]], [[Guan Yu]], [[Dragon King]], [[Mazu]], [[Shanshen]], [[City God (China)|City God]], and [[Tudigong]].

In an opera with divine powers, the opera players sacrifice extensively to a particular god. On stage, they will dress up as gods and goddesses and portray well-known [[Chinese mythology|Chinese mythological stories]] through song, dance, and [[acrobatics]]. The opera is usually performed in a breakable large tent next to the temple(s).

This opera genre is very big in [[Cantonese opera]] and several performances can be seen every year. The god of Cantonese opera is [[Huaguang Dadi|Huaguangdadi]], who is worshiped by all Cantonese opera players.

== Categories ==
There are several types of performances, such as temple fair performances, festival performances, ancestral hall performances, festive performances, affairs performances, and peace plays. The most common is the [[Miaohui]] play, which is usually performed on the birthdays of deities such as the [[Jade Emperor]], [[Three Great Emperor-Officials]], [[Guan Yu|Guan Di]], [[Xuanwu (god)|Xuanwu]], [[Lü Dongbin]], [[Mazu]], [[Dragon King]], [[City God (China)|City God]], [[Mountain God]], [[Tudigong|Land God]]. The worship of these gods is usually a major event for the local temples, and at the same time, the local temples also hold [[Miaohui|Temple Festival]] to celebrate during the festival.

The performance is mainly for the purpose of entertaining the gods or thanking them, and is only performed incidentally for the appreciation of the good faith. Therefore, the stage is often set up at the front of the temple, and the audience is not allowed to go forward or get too close, but can only watch the show from the sides or the back, so that the gods can be said to be sitting in the VIP seats or the seats in the front rows.<ref>Valerie Hansen（韓森）著，包偉民譯：《變遷之神——南宋時期的民間信仰》（杭州：浙江人民出版社，1999），頁71。</ref>

In Hong Kong, most of the performances are [[Cantonese opera]], [[Teochew opera]], and [[Liyuan opera]].<ref>陳守仁：《神功戲在香港》，香港：三聯書店，1996 年。</ref> In Taiwan, in the early days, it was [[Beiguan music]], [[Gaojia opera]], [[Taiwanese opera]], and [[Glove puppetry]], but after the restoration, it was mostly [[Taiwanese opera]] and [[Glove puppetry]], and even [[Puppetry]] and modern [[Straight play|Drama]] are available, and in recent decades, [[Film]] has also been shown to honor the gods. In mainland China, the performance of Shinto plays is based on the region's popular theater genres. In Southeast Asia, most of the Chinese operas are [[Taiwanese opera]], [[Teochew opera]], and [[Cantonese opera]].

== Development ==
During the Northern Song Dynasty, temple plays were widely held in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River as "[[Puppetry|puppet plays]]", and when they were staged, the audience was "full of laughter and talk, and the villagers gathered to watch and drink wine, and were drunk and beaten".<ref>[[朱彧]]《萍州可談》卷3。</ref> The custom of She drama has been passed down for many years, and the celebration of She drama is very rich, as seen in "The Day of the She", written by the Tang Dynasty poet Wang Kai, and "Spring She (and)", written by the Song Dynasty poet [[Lu You]].

The famous literary figure [[Lu Xun]] wrote a novel "The She Opera". Nowadays, it is also common to see Shen Gong opera in [[Hong Kong]]'s [[Dajiao|Tai Ping Qing Jiao]] and ((ill|Hong Kong Yu Lan Festival|zh|香港盂蘭勝會)), where local people raise funds to hire a troupe to perform [[Chinese opera]] as the main celebration, and many rituals in Taiwan also have opera performances.

==Notes==
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== References ==
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[[Category:Cantonese opera]]
[[Category:Chinese opera]]
[[Category:Chinese culture]]

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