The Study Of Communication Of Traditional Peking Opera <the Fierce Red Horse>

The love story of Xue Pinggui and Wang Baochuan is very famous in China and many Chinese opera dramas have performances about it, especially the Peking Opera<The Fierce Red Horse>, which impress people most. Xue Pinggui was born in poverty. He once became a beggar. Wang Baochuan’s identity was distinguished. Her father, Wang Yun, was the prime minister of Tang dynasty. Wang Baochuan was the third daughter of Wang Yun and she was very beautiful. Wang Baochuan met Xue Pinggui in a garden and they fell in love. Because their identity gap is too deep, Wang Baochuan’s father did not agree they to get marry. But they insisted and moved to live in a humble cave. One day Xue Pinggui was rewarded by the king because he tamed a fierce horse. But in order to seperate Wang Baochuan and Xue Pinggui, Wang Yun suggested the king to send Xue Pinggui to the battlefield in Xi Liang. After going through a lot of difficulties, Xue Pinggui and Wang Baochuan finally reunion after eighteen years’ separation.In fact, the development and spread of the Peking Opera <The Fierce Red Horse> is also the process of its communication. Generally, in the activity of communication, communicators and the content they communicate are closely connected. In other words, when we talk about the communicator’who’, we will also discuss they communicate ’what’. In the spread of Peking Opera, it is especially true, because its basic character is performance. As the actors are always communicators and creators and the content they communicate is the performance. So the performers, as communicators, play a very important role in the process of the communication of Peking Opera. However, Previous articles about studying Peking Opera <The Fierce Red Horse>mainly focus on the story text transmission, especially in the formation of the text content as well as the shaping of the characters. They ignored the performers, which are the main groups of communicator. In a long period of time,"Kouchuan Xinshou", which means using oral teaching to inspire true understanding within heart, is the main teaching mode of Peking Opera in China because of its particularity, and genre of inheritance is one of the most important form to spread and save Peking Opera. It’s very different from the spread of western drama, but unfortunately, just a few previous articles pay attention to this aspect. So I hope to make a case analysis of the Peking Opera <The Fierce Red Horse> and try to attract more and more scholars to focus on the opera performers who are the main transmission group, and make more people realize that interpersonal communication is an important phenomenon in Peking Opera, such as mentoring, peer play, amateur imitation, audience interaction and feedback, which are the important guarantee of Peking Opera’s communication.On the basis of the theory of communication and from the perspective of communicators, this article will analysis the communication of different level. At the same time, the rapid development of mass media such as television and internet make the communication of Peking Opera<The Fierce Red Horse> more diversified, which worth carding and research. Such research may contribute to the communication of Peking Opera in the future. The paper will analysis from following several aspects.The first chapter is mainly about some basic information of Peking Opera<The Fierce Red Horse>, including the outline of this story, the development and formation of this Peking Opera classic. Specifically, we will describe the origin of Wang Baochuan and Xue Pinggui’s love story, the evolution of ’inviting the groom at a colorful building’, the evolution of’living in a humble cave’, the development of the plot’molesting his wife’, and the outcome of’one husband marring to wives’.The second and third chapter respectively describe the spread of Peking Opera<The Fierce Red Horse> before and after the foundation of People’s Republic of China, mainly from the angle of communicators.The fourth chapter mainly analysis the difference of communication of Peking Opera <The Fierce Red Horse> at different times. Through the comparison, we can combine advantages and explore the future direction of its communication. Through in-depth case study, We hope to provide some useful reference for later opera communication.