The meanings of lineage are:

1, trade.

2, the category in which theater actors are divided. It is mainly divided according to the type of roles, such as the traditional Beijing Opera's Sheng, Dan, Jing and Chou.

3, imminent; to be.

4, is due.

5, Hooking, often used to refer to bad things.

Theatrical terminology for a line:

Line, a unity of image type and program. Playing a character in a play in a character line is a unique performance system of Chinese opera. From the content, it is an artistic and standardized image type of opera characters. From the formal point of view, it is a classification system of performance programs with character colors. This performance system is a centralized reflection of the programmatic nature of opera in the creation of character images.

Each line is an image system and a corresponding performance program system. For example, the Lao Sheng is an image system that embraces a series of upright and resolute male characters above middle age. For example, Zhu Geliang, a military man full of wisdom in the Peking Opera's "The Empty City Plan," and Song Shijie in the Peking Opera's "The Four Scholars," and so on.

These characters are relatively close in character and temperament, and there is a whole set of corresponding programs in performance. Such as read rhyming white, with real voice singing; style strong, simple, simple; action modeling to graceful, square, solemn as the tone. Because these characters must wear a beard, which symbolizes the beard, there is another set of beard kung fu.

Certain types of theater have also created a set of hat-winging stunts for characters wearing hats. Then the pure line is another kind of image, Bao Zheng, Xiang Yu, Cao Cao and so on belong to this system. This is a unique style of character modeling on the opera stage.

It has two prominent manifestations: First, the facial make-up to use a variety of colors and patterns outlining the face, so the net is also commonly known as the flower face; Second, the temperament of the character are almost rugged, Qiwei or heroic, and thus in the performance requires a broad and loud tone, action modeling is also rough lines.

This shows that the line has the connotation of character, but also contains the corresponding programmed mode of expression, is the unity of the image type and program.

Because the inner characteristics of the thoughts and feelings of the characters of the opera must be externalized and refined and standardized from the program, which will make the singing, reading, doing and playing of all kinds of programs with some kind of character color.

After a long period of artistic refinement, a number of artistic images of similar character and their corresponding performance programs, performance techniques and skills will gradually accumulate, converge and relatively stable, which is the formation of the line.

After the formation of a line, the performance programs accumulated can be used as a means to create new images. This cycle of continuous creation and development has contributed to the gradual enrichment and perfection of the performance system. It can be said that this performance system is the result of the image created by the performance program of the opera, and is the starting point of the image re-creation.