An Analysis Of The Characteristics Of Ma Zhiyuan 's Immortalization

The first chapter is a general remark of Ma Zhiyuan’s immortal-and-taoism dramas. During Yuan dynasty, the prosperity of taoism and taoist literature has promoted the development of taoist drama. Ma’s taoist drama is the best evidence of the taoism literature and Yuan-Dynasty zaju dramas’prosperity.This kind of drama is the conical plug of Ma’s suffering experience and Chhuan Chen Tao.So he use release as the main drama movement to release people from suffering to fairyland in his dramas.The second chapter concluded that the dogmata of taoism is suspended when Ma is glamorizing the otherworldly image.First,though he diagrammatize the "shaucha"way of austerity practice he still can’t get the soul of the internal dan philosophy; Second,Ma use "xian" as the commander of fairyland.In fact,"xian"is an ambiguous word which has been secularized.However,he imposes restrictions to that world in an artistic way that shows the relationship of immortal-and-taoism drama and scholar-bureaucrats’orientation of aesthetics.We scan the aesthetic form of Ma’s immortal-and-taoism drama from the point of artistic spirit in the third chapter.Because liveing in reclusion is best choice of the scholar-bureaucrats in the period,then"yi" bencomes an important aesthetic quality in all kinds of arts of Yuan dynasty. In the cultral background of reclusion,Zaju is an extension of scholar-bureaucrats’artistic spirit.Dramas’main metaphal feature is the emphasize of concise.This feature can be seen in the steady music mode, the assimilated plot and the categorized leading role.The last chapter probes the profounded connection of Ma and his dramas from the point of social and mental living space. Scholar-bureaucrats have friendliness with immortal-and-taoism drama for their scholarship and willingness for self-cultivation.So scholar-bureaucrats’ taste direct the way of these dramas’ development.Moreover,these dramas can’t be forbidden completely because they benefit the politics,religion,folk-custom and commerce.For this reason,the immortal-and-taoism dramas become the symbol of civilian discourse power.