The Cutural Interpretation Of The Dream Image In The Chinese Ancient Opera

The Chinese ancient opera has long history. It gathers essence of the recounting literature and sentiment literature. It has become excellent representative of our national culture. The Chinese ancient opera didn't mature until the Yuan Dynasty. Therefore, The Chinese ancient opera mainly is made up of the work of the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty. Under the influence of various factor, the ancient opera and dream contact together tightly.In ancient china, the opera of dream is very much, especially dream image, which not only abundant contexts, but also profound influence. According to statistics, the opera of dream is about two hundred in the Yuan Dynasty, in the Ming Dynasty and in the Qing Dynasty. However, Research on the opera of dream stay around not the whole study but the investigation to the concrete play in the long time. For example research on Tang XianZu's opera "Lin Chuan Four Dreams" from various angle.Therefore , the thesis introduce the concept of image, which research on the dream image of the Chinese ancient opera, try to use not only these standpoint and method of sociology, cultural anthropology, psychology but also the method of cultural heritage analysis. The thesis is a special and systematic study in it from the reason, contexts, art function and profound meaning etc.The thesis is made up of introduction, text and epilogue , and text has four parts.The introduction narrates the research condition of dream in the ancient opera, definites the object of the thesis and the significance of the study.The first chapter reviews the reason the ancient opera and dream always closely link from four sides: Firstly, the influence from ancient the idea of dream and soul and the tradition of divinating dream; Secondly, dream in the ancient opera inherit and surmout the tradition of writing dream in the ancient literature; Thirdly, the important way of play author thinking life; The end, the special relation of opera, dream and life, the influence of the widespread idea which the life is like a dream and life such as a drama.The second chapter narrates the conception of the dream image.Then, the dream image of the Chinese ancient opera is classified according to the context, altogether four type, such as the dream image of love and marriage, the dream image of revenging, the dream image of religion, the dream image of detect.The third chapter discuss the art function of the dream image. This chapter in detail reviews from five aspects: indicate function, symbolize function, the mental state depicts function, structure function, and express feelings function.The forth chapter narrates the profound meaning of the dream image from thee sides: the satire and criticize the dark reality, look forward to realizing fine ideal and the strong tragedy consciousness.The epilogue summarizes that the dream image have become beauty object specially in the Chinese ancient opera. The dream image not only enrich drama theories the treasure-house of the research but also inspire arts such as future generations literature and the film and television of creations.