The Research Of The Three Kingdoms In Peking Opera

Academic circles have a long history on the research of the "Three Kingdoms", and many generations gradually scale. Both the harvests of comparative study in Three Kingdoms’ category, and the harvest of special discussion against opera system, are quite abundant. However, as the diversion model of The "Three Kingdoms" in the end of Ancient Near, it didn’t get enough attention from the academia. The paper is intended to use the capacity of the dissertation to discuss and analysis it in specially and systematically.The Three Kingdoms in Peking Opera, meaning all the themes of the "Three Kingdoms Opera" which appeared in the text field and stage practice. These stories were strongly influenced by the novel Three Kingdoms, grows and changes within the opera system, slowly formed a Drama group that having complete roles and description which using "Three typical opera" as the core, and become an important part of the "Late cross Description" of Three Kingdoms stories.The generation and evolution of the Three Kingdoms in Peking Opera, programs in "desk" and "stage" two areas. It produced by the different forms of "Three Kingdoms" text which influence and learn from each other in stage experience at different period. It absorbed the reservation of Kun opera, Yi Yang opera, Hui opera, Han opera, and other local operas, obtained new live in the Peking Opera of the narrative system, experienced a "polymerization—dispersion—disperse aggregation— again" four stages, its performance also by "Hui Ban collection system" into "group pick shifts", formed its unique drama narrative mode.The story of The Three Kingdoms in Peking Opera, presents two different trend in the dissemination process:Part of The Three Kingdoms swept the stage and spread a strong position with dramatist’s adaptation and outstanding actor’s excellent performance, which represented with the The Hero’s party, Dragon and Phoenix and Lost- Empty- Execute; Another part of The Three Kingdoms drama gradually regress and even death in the realm of Peking Opera. They are not only failed to shine on stage, but also failed to continue these lives. The process reflects the law of "evolution" in the drama history of the evolution.This article is divided into two sections:The first section describes the Three Kingdoms drama’s origin and evolution which it as the "desk literature". The second section probes why the three Kingdoms drama in Peking Opera as "stage literature" that become thrive and decline on stage.On the whole, The Three Kingdoms story’s popular or recession, mainly due to the inside and outside factors of drama literature. On the one hand, drama has systematic limitation at time and space in the narrative text compared with the novel; it has more demanding about space-time and tells habits. And the narrative and depict of the grand battle scenes on the stage is hard to be able to present realization. According to that, the Three Kingdoms story in Peking Opera is unable to compete with novel in the communication and the process of formation. It can be said that the strong influence of the novel, although provided a rich experience of narrative from aspects of the text, but in terms of communication, it hindered the story’s development in the Peking Opera; On the other hand, Peking Opera is good at creating characters, particular to shape the image with the famous actor, combined with Chinese narrative traditional opera’s enjoyable skills, it can reach to shape vivid, lifelike artistic effect. Such as famous Peking Opera actor Tan Xinpei’s excellent performance in the DingJun Hill, which played the Huang Zhong. Beyond that, Hao Shouchen is regarded as "living MengDe" because of his performing of Cacao. At the same time, the special background of the late Qing dynasty brought the spirit connotation for Three Kingdoms in Peking Opera. In the process of the Peking Opera’s developing, the role of the man’s developing and their artistic pursuit provided the opportunity for the Three Kingdoms story. In addition, the study of the actor in spoke and work skills take the "Three Kingdoms" become popular for long time. As to its recession in the contemporary, to a large degree, having a relationship with Peking Opera art’s decline in the contemporary literary language consumption, rather than in The Three Kingdoms in the legendary story itself, caused by the lack of popularity.