Urban Culture In Shanghai Shaoxing Opera

In hundreds of Chinese operas,Yueju Opera(Shaoxing Opera)has exited for a relatively short history,only over a hundred years.It originated in Shengzhou country of Zhejiang Province and prospered in Shanghai,imbibing kinds of other artistic elements under the background of the urban culture.It has taken comprehensive reforms and formed the distinct style of regional opera with the traditional arts and the modern culture.This article takes"Yueju Opera in the Shanghai urban culture"as a topic and limits the scope of the study in Shanghai,which begins from Yueju Opera entering in the city.This article will get the history as clues,and combine with the theories to the text materials and some investigations to sort out the development of Yueju Opera in Shanghai.With the precondition of the macro-grasp about the history of Yueju Opera in Shanghai,the article will mainly discuss the influence of the Shanghai urban culture on Yueju Opera and the style of regional opera which has formed on the basis.Meanwhile,the article will pay some attention to the current situation and some crisis of Yueju Opera.The whole article is divided into four parts in addition to the introduction and the conclusion.The introduction includes the origin and the definition of the study.In Part One,the main dissertation is the development of Yueju Opera in Shanghai and the influence of the urban culture on the opera.In Part Two,the article investigates the similarities between Yueju Opera and the citizens'life in Shanghai from the view of the folk.The Part Three describes the style of regional opera and the cultural characteristics that forms in the Shanghai urban culture on the basis of the first two chapters.The Part Four is a study on the current situation of Yueju Opera in Shanghai,which analysises the problems and the crisis Yueju Opera should face nowadays through the data and the facts iinvestigated.Meanwhile,this part gives some advice and opinions to the development of Yueju Opera in the future.