Literary Research Of Heng Qu Zhu Tan

Heng Qu Zhu Tan is a blend of Traditional Opera criticism and Sanqu poem criticism, which composed in the end of Ming dynasty. The opinions of this artical has a great sense of innovationin in the history of Chinese Traditional Opera criticism and Sanqu poem criticism. This Paper will fully analyze the text of Heng Qu Zhu Tan. First of all, analyze the versions, author and the origin of Heng Qu Zhu Tan. Its versions gas separate edition and together edition. According to the existing information, the author of Heng Qu Zhu Tan named Zhang Chushu, and the name of this work contains the author’s aspiration of advising after scholars and claiming to elegant. Secondly, analyze the emotion of Heng Qu Zhu Tan. Zhang Chushu believes that the most important thing of Qu is expressing a kind of emotion; especially the unreasoning passion is the highest pursuit of Qu. He also thinks the true love has the function of civilizing. Thirdly, analyze the viewpoint of style in Heng Qu Zhu Tan. Zhang Chushu has an obvious sense of valuing Qu, and claim an opinion of the peculiarity of Qu. Fourthly, analyze the opinion of melody in Heng Qu Zhu Tan. Zhang Chushu’s judgment towards melody serves an aspiration of natural, and expects reaching a stage of taking into account both diction and melody. At last, analyze the opinion towards the history of Qu in Ming dynasty of Heng Qu Zhu Tan. Zhang Chushu segmented the history of Qu in Ming dynasty into three phases, and such segmenting was rating the Qu Jiang School a higher position actually.