On Lord Guan Opera

"Lord Guan Opera" refers to the ornamental or ceremonial opera in which Lord Guan is the protagonist or promotes the plots. The thesis mainly emphases on the period from Yuan Dynasty to the Republic of China.The current studies on "Lord Guan Opera" mostly center around partial researches such as text or performance,or the research about Lord Guan image or Lord Guan culture.This paper tries to make a systematic explanation about "Lord Guan Opera" from the source of subject,list,text,performance,aesthetic acceptance,stylistics interaction,culture connotation."Lord Guan Opera" is from the historical facts. Its subject source is from the general Guan Yu’s life experience of Kingdom of Shu Han which is one of the Three Kingdoms and closely connected with the later deification of Guan Yu.Under the combined action of "Guan Yu" and "Guan God","Lord Guan Opera" shows Lord Guan image which has the double colors of heroes and gods in Chinese cultural history. From the existing data,"Lord Guan Opera" performs from the Song Dynasty’s leather-silhouette show to zaju,southern drama,legend,local opera and ritual drama such as Nuo opera.There are a lot of performance repertoire and rich content.The literariness of text and the artistry of performance are the main parts of "Lord Guan Opera," aesthetic creation.In the text,the structure design is flexible,which has experienced the development of the surface structure in different ages and different types of drama and emerged the variant of foreshadowing,two-wire,serialized theatrical structure.As the soul character of "Lord Guan Opera",Lord Guan’s stage image has taken the positive general as the main body and supplemented by God general and complemented to judge,which have showed different new features at different times.Lord Guan’s general image have developed prominently. The language style of Lord Guan Opera have taken the natural language as the main body, which embodies the distinctive characteristic of the folk.There have been elegant and stagnant language style because of writers’ different social status. The different language styles of Lord Guan Opera have interaction. In a word,the text of "Lord Guan Opera" is more perfect, which has had flexible structure design,taken the positive general as the main body and taken the natural language as the main style.There have been different degrees of contact between the folk and royal performance of zaju,southern drama,legend,local opera and many taboos in the religious ceremony performance.The religious ceremony dramas such as Nuo opera shows a primitive characteristic and rough art style,which presents the transition from religious ceremony to mature drama.All of these are the general situation of "Lord Guan Opera"performance. The performance of Lord Guan image in the "Lord Guan Opera" have been more abundant and exquisite in terms of role,vocal music,types of facial makeup,clothing, figure, stunt,props. At last,the classical stage image of Lord Guan formed in Peking Opera.The performance have formed red-face role system,sonorous singing and multi operatic tunes fusion.The types of facial makeup and clothing are varied and delicate. The figure is steady, dignified and hot. There have been vivid fire and face changing in the performance stunt.Some props are elegant. The great artistic achievement is unable to do without the deep moral and artistic accomplishment of "Lord Guan Opera" actors.The aesthetic acceptance makes "Lord Guan Opera" become the real art. The audience have had general Lord Guan worship psychology,formed a series of ornamental taboos and had a long and lively aesthetic expectation to the loyalty image of Lord Guan.At the same time,there have been different individual character of aesthetic psychology because of the different social status,knowledge and self-restraint and personality.The general and individual character of aesthetic acceptance have the construction and destruction effect to "Lord Guan Opera".In general,the effect takes the construction as the main body.There have been different degrees interaction between "Lord Guan Opera" and related narrative style. The corn information has refered to the heroic deeds of Lord Guan.There have been some connections between "Lord Guan Opera" and traditional military culture,religious culture and folk belief culture.We can see the deep and rich cultural heritage from the popularity and entertainment of Lord Guan Opera’s artistic form.As the entrance to the general and God image of Lord Guan,this paper have a restricted view to the stylistics interaction and culture connotation of "Lord Guan Opera"because of the numerous and complex relationship between them.In the background of Chinese traditional culture and many narrative literature interactions,"Lord Guan Opera"is outstanding because of perfect aesthetic creation and extensive aesthetic acceptance.It is distinguished in Chinese traditional drama history.