Research On Ming Dynasty Legendary Style Drama

The development of legend in Ming Dynasty has become a peak in the development of Chinese opera.According to Fu Xihua's The Complete List of Legends of Ming Dynasty,there are 950 kinds of legends in the catalogue of Ming Dynasty,including 618 kinds of repertoire with authors' names and 332 kinds of anonymous works.In total,there are 350 writers(excluding anonymous ones).The number of such dramas far ahead of the generation,in the outstanding achievements of the Ming legend,the number of drama.According to Mr.Guo Yingde's statistics,romantic drama accounts for about 45%of the total creation of legends in the Ming Dynasty,which shows that it has become an important part of the content of operas in the Ming Dynasty.The standard of "romantic drama" is based on the subject matter and content of drama.This paper takes the legendary romantic drama of the Ming Dynasty as the research object,and there are two basic concepts in the "romantic drama of the Ming Dynasty":one is the "legendary drama of the Ming Dynasty".As the limitation of time and genre,it is the legend of Ming Dynasty.The second is the content is "amorous feelings drama".As a type of legend,"romantic drama" is not a concept that has been widely used in drama research circles from the very beginning,nor is it a new concept created by the author personally.On the contrary,it is the author's analysis of the romance of love and marriage,the main content of the script with such a concept.It is different from the talented scholar and beautiful woman,and also different from the love and marriage romance in the broad sense.It focuses on the occurrence and development process of the affection between men and women.In the Ming Dynasty,legends such as Tang's Fuchun Tang,Guangqing Tang and Feng's Mohan Zhai were collected and compiled,but they were not widely spread and difficult to find.At present,the most popular anthology is Sixty Songs by Mao Jin at the end of Ming Dynasty,which is the anthology with the most preserved legendary plays,the greatest influence and,of course,the widest circulation.In the study of style plays,because of the numerous articles,the good and bad are intermingled,so the selected plays to "sixty kinds of music" as the center.The main body of the thesis includes five chapters.The first chapter,Ming legend amorous feelings drama brief introduction.Starting from the social background of the emergence of romantic drama,through the Ming Dynasty's political,economic,ideological characteristics,explain the reasons for the emergence of romantic drama.This is related to the change of the status of the merchant class,the change of social atmosphere brought about by the development of the commodity economy,and the influence of religious belief on the conduct of the scholar.Legend of Ming Dynasty also experienced a slow development in the early period and a flourishing process in the middle and late period.The reason why legends flourish is closely related to social objective conditions.The late Ming Dynasty entered the flourishing period of legendary creation,and the creation of romantic drama was also the top priority.The second chapter,the origin of Ming legend drama.It is no accident that romantic drama emerged in the Ming Dynasty.The depiction of love and marriage can be traced back to The Book of Songs.The story of love and marriage in opera can be started from the drama of Yuan Dynasty.According to the reflection of traditional concepts,the drama of love and marriage began to pursue the love of life and death,and also explained the female subject consciousness.Under the influence of Romance of the Western Chamber,a certain narrative mode was formed.The main content of Southern Opera in Song and Yuan Dynasties is related to family.In the creation of love and marriage works,he made a breakthrough in the concept of marriage.The appearance of Pipa Ji provided an object of imitation for the legendary style dramas of Ming Dynasty.After the appearance of legendary style dramas in the Ming Dynasty,there were different numbers of works and different meanings in the early and late periods,which all reflected the characteristics of different periods.The Ming legend style drama set up the unique opera aesthetic thought.The third chapter,the Ming legend style drama type interpretation.In the expression of ideological connotation,the style plays embody different characteristics.Have publicity love style drama,to Yang love as its focus;There is a sense of unity of style drama,in Yang feeling at the same time received the constraints of reason,and finally achieve the unity of reason;There are multiple themes of amorous feelings,this kind of drama or in the history of love,or with loyal and adulterous struggle highlights the sincerity of love,but the occurrence of love is really the center of this kind of drama.In the process of interpretation of the above dramas,the romantic drama shows the trend of common sense to common sense.The female characters are the unique features of romantic drama works.Some of them have outstanding talents,some have traditional female characteristics,and pursue self-awareness and love,which is related to the culture of talented women in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.Style drama works show the ideal marriage mode,that is,talent and beauty,wives and concubines,indicating that at this time love marriage works have begun to stereotype.The drama also shows the imperial examination ideal of Han Yuan,which is closely related to the imperial examination system of Ming Dynasty,and can also be said to be the inheritance of the theme of "No.1 Scholar in the Middle School".The fourth chapter,the narrative research of Ming Dynasty legendary style drama.It mainly focuses on the text narration,and does not involve the stage narration.The drama conflict,narrative structure and stylized narrative mode are related to the legend drama of Ming dynasty.In the specific narrative structure,the author uses the obstacle-clearing narrative structure,the interlocking narrative structure and the double-line parallel narrative structure,and explains the reasons for the stylized narrative.The perspective is an important aspect of narratology.When the author narrates the works,what kind of perspective should he take to understand the world and have different understandings of the same characters and events?That is,what the creator wants to show to the audience,and how the audience understands and accepts it,the style drama takes the perspective of endorsement.Then analyze the narrative language of the romantic drama,the narrative language of the legend romantic drama of the Ming Dynasty shows a graceful and elegant trend,but in the Shen Tang dispute,for the natural language expression is also affirmed.Chapter five,the social and cultural value of Ming Dynasty legendary style drama.From the display of literati mentality,progressive concept of marriage and folk culture in the drama.Illustrates for fame and wealth,and to the understanding of the literati,the introspection of the traditional marriage concept,change,for the traditional festivals,the Lantern Festival,for example is analyzed,finally is to reflect,to the concept of traditional folk custom in the fate of Ming legend from three aspects analyzes the social and cultural value of amorous feelings of play.