The Research On Canonization Of Zhao’s Orphan’s Revenge

Zhao’s Orphan’s Revenge,a classic tragedy of chinese traditional opera,has been spread for hundreads of years from that it was created by Ji Junxiang in the Yuan Dynasty.In such a long period,chinese traditional opera has experienced the change of dynasties,social vicissitudes and the endless stream of new works.Instead of being covered by various new works,Zhao’s Orphan’s Revenge has been active in the stage all the time and even been adapted for modren drama,film and television.It is worthy searching for the reason why the Zhao’s Orphan’s Revenge can become a classic tragedy and still shows a positive developing trend.In recent years,more and more researchers pay attention to this tragedy and finally make fruitful achievements.But research on the canonization of Zhao’s Orphan’s Revenge is rarely involved.So this paper will study the construction of the classical Zhao’s Orphan’s Revenge in the perspective of canonization,hoping to discover the classical elements and regularities of this excellent tragedy,and to provide references and new thinkings to the holistic studies of Zhao’s Orphan’s Revenge also.In this paper,firstly to define the two concepts about "classic" and “canonization”,and puts forward the three stages of “canonization” : classic’s creation,classic’s transmission and classic’s criticism.Then the paper studies the canonization of Zhao’s Orphan’s Revenge in the turn of creation,transmission and criticism.In the stage of creation,the historical background of Song Dynasty,which has given realistic political significance to Zhao’s Orphan’s Revenge.Ji Junxiang took an unique processing of historical material about Zhao’s Orphan’s Revenge,ehcoed the populace mentality at that time,which made Zhao’s Orphan’s Revenge born with a broad mass basis.Outstanding artistic achievements and the profound cultural connotations is required element of the canonization of Zhao’s Orphan’s Revenge.In the stage of transmission,the paper discusses the spreading of Zhao’s Orphan’s Revenge in different times and areas from following four parts: stage transmission,text transmission,cross-article-class transmission and overseas transmission.Besides,by analysing the changes and developments of the story,ideology purport,art form,we can clearly found the differences between times or regions.It is the transmission over time and area of Zhao’s Orphan’s Revenge,which had paved the way to be a famous classic.Finally,in the stage of literary criticism,the paper combed the appreciations and evaluations of Zhao’s Orphan’s Revenge,which made by drama critics and well-known experts,affirmed the classic value of Zhao’s Orphan’s Revenge once again.