The drum words Journey to the West is one of dramas in Che Palace's Dramas. It comes into being from inheriting and editing the fiction Journey to the West. This paper stresses on studying the relationship between the drum words and the fiction. It seeing about art characteristics the drum words inheriting and editing the fiction and its embodied art laws. And it also reviews Talking and Singing Journey to the West, which is the drum words'collative book.The article divides into four parts:The first part summarizes the subject's study actuality, study significance, study content and methods. In the second parts, the article introduces drum words'academic knowledge. It includes drum words'concept, the developed headstream and evolution, singing characters and so on. The third part is the keystone part in this paper. It stresses on discussing the drum words Journey to the West how to inherit and change the fiction's one. We can get from this part that most plots in the drum words Journey to the West are similar to the fiction's one, but not repeats what the book says. It enriches the fiction through extension, rewriting, reasonable romance and developing, it also adds many new plots and details, inserting and describing local custom and public feelings, to make the story more suitable to the common people in that time. However, the drum words have such deficiencies as careless omission, improper degree, sickness plots and so on.The last part reviews the collative book of the drum words Journey to the West, Talking and Sing Journey to the West. In the book, they deleted all the plots that the actors added, and processed almost all the verses and some spoken words. Although it is propitious to reading, but makes the drum words lost its original appearance. |