The Image Expression And Performance On Stage Of "Horse" In Western Drama And Chinese Opera

In the long history of mankind,the horse plays a very important role in the whole process of the formation and development of human civilization.The image of horse not only deeply implanted in the production and life of human,but also the Oriental ancient civilization and the western industrial countries have formed an unique culture of horse with rhythm and direction of the development of their historical backgrounds.Especially in the field of literature and art,there is very high artistic value on the horse.Such as painting,sculpture,fables,legends,poetry,proverbs to allusions and so on,and the number of productions about horse is very numerous.As a comprehensive art,western drama and chinese opera both have over a thousand years of history,which have a very high position,and the amount of drama about horse is also very large,which are deeply into the human‘s mind.In the western drama,the meaning of horse in the different style of drama are very various,and the way of how to present horse on the stage is very different.In the history of chinese opera,the stage expressions of horse are constantly developing.They are the mirrors of The Times,which are also deeply marked the culture of horse.The horse is the content and the drama is a kind of form,and my paper is trying to study the horse culture of in drama and presentation of horse on the stage through analyzing the "horse" of image expression in drama,which is an entrance to explore the similarities and differences between chinese and western drama culture and their development tendency.