The Study On The Celebration Drama Of Ming Dynasty

Celebration drama is the drama that for holiday blessing, birthday celebrating,and praying forfortune,or add to the gaiety for banquet,etc.It plays a very important role in the particular occasion and thefestival for it can add happy mood to the festival.This paper will study on the celebration drama of theMing Dynasty,and the perform situation,the cause of the drama thriving,and the value of this drama..This paper consisits three parts-the introduction,the text and the conclution.The introduction part to do a simple explanation and elaboration to celebration drama,and sort outthe information on its current reserch on this topic.Moreover,this part put a very detailed study on thecelebration drama which in official and community of before the Ming Dynasty.The text is divided into three chapters.Chapter one is the study on the situation of the celebration drama.Section one is mainly about thesituation of the official celebration drama.This part analyse authors, type and the plot of the play on thebasic of the twenty-eighe official plays,and then come to the conclusion that the topic and the feature ofthem. Section two focus on the perform situation of the official and the businessman. The other sectionanalyzes the topic and the feature of the community celebration drama.The three sections represent thegeneration of the celebration drama of the Ming Dynasty.On the basic of the chapter one,this paper analyse the causes about the large quantities plays playon the stage in the Ming Dynasty.Politics,economic,cultural and the other element act on the situationtogether.The value of the celebration drama will be investigate in the third chapter.Celebration drama circulated widely in Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty,even last to the modern time,the value of it is can notbe ignored.It influences the forms of the drama after the Ming Dynasty.And the other,the celebration dramareflect the custom of the Ming Dynasty,such as the festival activities,banquet activities,and the ceremonialactivities,etc.The conclusion part is the summary of the whole text,and raises the society value and the studyvalue of the celebration drama in the morden time.