"The Declining Aristocracy"

The novels of Bai Xianyong are about "decline", It is always shown as individual、 family or even a group, a kind of culture in the era of historical change and fugitive dust are in the decay and death. The ambiguity and richness is the most important reason that make Bai Xianyong’s novels are unique in the contemporary novels, At the same time, it makes the novels are hard to understand. Meanwhile, Bai Xianyong is claimed to be a volunteer in kun Opera, and he fond of kunqu Opera in his life, even spare no effort to revive kunqu Opera, for example, Bai Xianyong was start to make the youth version of peony pavilion since 2004, and the media are scramble to report it at home and abroad, and form the phenomenon of peon pavilion. However, A large number of articles just form actors, production, promotion, etc to discuss the relationship between kunqu Opera and Bai Xianyong.But what is the relationship between kunqu Opera and Bai Xianyong’s creation? Why Bai xianyong obsessed with kunqu Opera? On account of these, This paper is study the kunqu Opera, as a age-old, traditional, lonely, and delicate stagecrafe, Combination with Bai Xianyong’s experience, To explore the influence of kunqu Opera on Bai Xianyong’s novel creations, To reveal the more kernels and meanings in Bai Xianyong’s novels.In general, Bai Xianyong love of kunqu Opera, with his family, with his novel creation,I in a part, is the trinity, that is Bai Xianyong’s experience is similar with kunqu Opera’ destiny, At the same time, the aesthetic and cultural of kunqu Opera infiltration in his novel creation. On these basis, there are three chapters in this paper, The first chapter focuses on the cultural connotation of kunqu Opera, the destiny between Bai Xianyong and the kunqu Opera; The second chapter elaborates the demise of Bai Xianyong’s novels link with kunqu Opera, The decline is not only the profound meaning of kunqu Opera, but also the object of Bai Xianyong’s novels; The third chapter discuss the homesickness in Bai Xianyong’s novels link with kunqu Opera. Totally, kunqu Opera is the important carrier of Bai Xianyong’s spiritual bailment, aesthetic ideal, and cultural nostalgis, even it is the most powerful path from his cultural nostalgis toward redemption.Generally speaking, traveling in China and west, between traditional and modern, base on the rise and the fallen of the country, the deep cultural nostalgia that shown in Bai Xianyong’s novel creation, and it also found in his hobby. Just about the unique sense of history and bitterness in the novels, that make Bai Xianyong’s novels have the unique significance in the Taiwan’ literary Arena, even in Chinese contemporary literary Arena.