The Stude Of The Sequels Of The Romance Of West Chamber In The Ming And Qing Dynasty

After the birth of Wang Shi-fu's"The Romance of West Chamber", known as on the volumes of the pressure for the play in the Yuan and Ming Dynasty, it has been active in the Chinese opera stage for 700 years. Until now there are many repertoire of The Romance of West Chamber loved by the people. A lot of Sequels of the Romance of West Chamber have emerged, even though the overall evaluation of Sequels of the Romance of West Chamber is not too high, but as a literary phenomenon, sequels of"The Romance of West Chamber"in Ming and Qing Dynasties emerging in large numbers is bound to be from kinds of reasons, the book's literary achievements of the sequels,we should not generalize, is declining. Therefore, the research integrity to the Sequels has become necessary.This paper , regarding sequels of the Romance of West Chamber in the Ming and Qing Dynasties as a whole, analyze and research comprehensively. First of all, on the basis of the concept of the "Continuation" defined in the previous paper, combining the characteristics of drama itself, define sequels of the Romance of West Chamber in the Ming and Qing, determine the scope of the thesis. the main part of Paper is to examine are the cause, topical orientation and artistic characteristics of Sequels. the causes of sequels of the Romance of West Chamber in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, are many, such as the rulers'policy of the opera, means of the Romance of West Chamber's communication, scholars'acceptance and criticism the Ming and Qing literati atmosphere of the sequels and so on. Continuation regarding "Love Stories" and "enlightenment" as the theme have obviously features of the times in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the works with new ideas, also highlights efforts made by some of the playwright in the process of drama's innovation. Meanwhile, the theme of change brought about changes in characters, appeared alienation most of the main characters in the book, such as the beautification of Cheng Heng, Zhang's demonize, Yingying the offside and so weakened and the matchmaker. In Continuation of the story and language, although the evaluation of the descendants is not high, but the scripts still show some certain characteristics. In the final, the paper makes the appropriate value proposition to the Romance of West Chamber's Sequels in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.