Research On Gaojia Opera And Water Margin Culture

The Central issue investigated in this essay is the relationship between Gaojia opera and Water Margin culture. The impact of Water Margin culture on Gaojia opera is the focus of this essay.The introduction part begins with discussing the original relationship between Chinese operas and novels, Water Margin and successive dynasties Water Margin operas. Through sorting out and discriminating a series of surveys and studies of Gaojia opera’original materials. We believe that Minnan-Gaojia opera was spawned from the Water Margin culture which generated based on Water Margin.The first chapter, based on the clue of the development history of Gaojia opera, delves into the formation and development of Gaojia opera in every stage under the infiltration of Water Margin culture. Firstly, it analyzes the origin and performance characteristics of folk recreation Songjiang zhen under the nourished of folk cultures in the south of Fujian province. Then, it explores and discusses the formation process from Songjiang zhen to the Songjiang opera, meanwhile, studies its cultural connotations in depth; Finally, this chapter pries about the formation and development of Hexing opera, as well as describes the performance characteristics of Gaojia opera at this stage.The second chapter carries on a profound investigation on the transformation of Gaojia opera and the retreat of Water Margin culture. This part dissertates and discusses the transformation of Gaojia opera and the retreat of Water Margin culture from two aspects, the rise of antic play’performing arts which subsequently evolve into category arts of Gaojia opera, the creation and adaptation of antic plays. But the Water Margin culture is not fully aphasia, therefore snoops the shadows of water margin culture after the transformation of Gaojia opera from three dimensions, the modern playlet, the tune music, and the performance characteristics. The final section has discussed the reasons of Water Margin culture’s retreat, and the transformation of Gaojia opera.Research on the play scripts of Gaojia-Water Margin is the main content in the third chapter. By sorting out the materials, making lists and describing the Gaojia-Water Margin repertoires those which created and adaptated for show before and after the founding of the People’s Republic, in the mean time introducing some of the scrips briefly. Then regarding Lu Junyi and Song Shut Fan that often play in recent years as the study carriers, analyzes the characteristics that the Water Margin culture and the Minnan culture share and contrast as displayed by such aspects as ideology, personality of characters, and language and folk custom.The conclusion generalized and summarized the full essay, and attempted to raise some problems, why Minnan-Gaojia opera spawned from the Water Margin culture becomes a special cultural phenomenon? and so on.