The Study Of Gao Lian

Nv Zhenguan story source the folklore in Song and Yuan dynasty. When it entered the literature domain, it received writer's attention continuously, and it had been reorganized for literature styles such as zaju and novel. Since Gao Lian, who lived in Ming dynasty, broke through the predecessor pattern, used the comedy form reorganized it to The Jade Hairpin, this play then was all the rage the whole country, until now still enlivened in the drama stage. Investigates its reason, actually because its author Gao Lian has poured the counter-religious idea about Buddhist monastic rules and the feudal Confucianism into The Jade Hairpin. As a result, this play manifested the pursue emancipation of man's individual character and maked widely known the human desire the current thought, entrusted with this traditional the talented men and beautiful women story by the brand-new appearance. As soon as the populace who struggled with dual shackles under religious and the Confucianism saw the play, their spirits were roused.The thought value and comedy art which The Jade Hairpin has, causes it to become one of the most outstanding works in the development phase of the opera. And Gao Lian, the author of The Jade Hairpin, also deservingly advanced into in the Ming dynasty famous drama ranks naturally. Gao was good at both Chinese poetry and song. However, his correlate historical data are really few. This situation is obviously extremely not symmetric with his status in the history of literature. Gao was the son of a merchant, but he was famous in literature domain and, had the contact with many celebrated litterateurs. In childhood, Gao was a boy in bad health. Nevertheless he had been lived for a long time and finished the monograph named To Obey Lives Eight Notepaper. He once stepped onto the official career but have made up mind to return to native place at last. The latter Ming dynasty writer's unique thought and the disposition characteristic was embodied on Gao Lian. We can get abundant information by the study about Gao Lian. Moreover, it will be very helpful for us in studying the literature circumstances and the psychology of literary men who lived in the mid and late Ming dynasty.