First Exploration On The Relationship Between Modern Drama And Rite

There is a lot of achievements about the relationship between drama and rite, and many scholars have confirmed that the western drama develops from the sacrifice rite in Ancient Greece. Modern drama in China is from the development and the formation of The western drama on China’s domestic, so it is inevitably has the stigma of rite, and retains the features and functions of rite. The modern drama is a kind of group psychological experience with the feature of solemn, mysterious and ceremonial.The elements of the modern drama, including stage prop, actors perform and audience participation, all of which s kind of ritualistic. The plot of the modern drama is displacement and deform from ceremony prototype, in the modern drama always containing the plot of sacrifice or the structure of the plot is a metaphor of a festival; The pray to the god in the sacrifice evolved into the inhuman strength in the modern drama, who were charged with the mission of the hero image; The story in the modern drama still retains a lot of the legacy of totemism in humankind’s childhood.On the contrary of universal ideas that the modern drama is only a recreational activity among people, modern drama is performed in a relatively closed space, with the function of purifying our hearts and enlightening one’s soul like the function of religious rites, in response to the group psychotherapy in the ancient days and the universal care since humankind’s childhood. The modern drama is not only aesthetic entertainment but also an aesthetic ceremony if digest its appearance of daily entertainment. It has the similar assembly functions like the ceremony, as well as the transition function to encourage people’s spiritual growth, function of their dreams through the communication between ideals and realities, and the healing function for collaging urban human’s spirit debris. No wonder that the modern drama has become important cultural experience for group binge in urban.