A Study On The Pan-drama Form Of The Northern Wei Dynasty

Pan-drama form refers to the drama form which is equipped with initial dramatic factors,but not mature.In this paper,it is explained from three aspects in terms of its concept: role play as its nature;plots of a story as its content;dancing,sing,reciting,and spoken parts in an opera as its performance form.The combination among the three aspects is not balanced,which has a direct influence on the performance of pan-drama form.The pan-drama form of the Northern Wei Dynasty is closely related to its social background.Tuoba Xianbei holds an inclusive attitude towards which tribe they belong to,passes down the history of their ancestors through ballads and loves singing and dancing,making great contributions to the form of pan-drama form.The integration of Hu and Han shapes diversified art styles.The boom of Buddhism promotes the further development of its culture.The material civilization of the Northern Wei Dynasty guaranteesthe living condition of its art.Like the social background closely associated with pan-drama of the Northern Wei Dynasty,a combination of multi-aspect,pan-drama is an integration of all kinds of dramas.They are related to each other.It can be said that the development of the pan-drama form of the Northern Wei Dynasty is keeping up with its ecological environment of art.Under the social background,pan-drama form of the Northern Wei Dynasty has new development in its content and nature.For both pan-drama forms of dancing and singing,one of them develop based on ceremony sing and dancing,which dramatic characters act in.Especially,Nuo Rite,held with Daqu,shows some characteristics of stylization,and expand the capacity of music,making it possible to carry more plots of a story.The other is shows with singing and dancing for entertaining.Through trade,war and son on,the singing and dancing from Central Plains is passed down in the Northern Wei Dynasty.Besides,Yuefu Poems,due to the influence of social environment at that time,reflects serious social problems in the Northern Wei Dynasty,such as war,marriage and the like,which is beneficial for dramas in its form,phrase and structure.Pan-drama form of spoken parts in an operainherits the tradition passed down by the Northern Wei Dynasty through ballads and develops in its narration,while Xiliuchang,another form reaches the situation where many people play roles and adopts stylized plots.Pan-drama form of acrobatics is a drama where characters simply imitate animals,but it expands the capacity of music and can carry more content because the involvement of Daqu.What's more,a great many pictures of historical relics about acrobatics in the Northern Wei Dynasty proves its prosperity,with some breathtaking acrobatics providing experience for pan-drama form.Drama costumes play an important part in role play,dressed with concrete dance movements to show the image of a character to audience.To some degree,the costume of the pan-drama form of the Northern Wei Dynasty is an integration of Hu and Han styles.The costume of singing and dancing shows different features respectively in Pingcheng Era and Luoyang Era.Besides,the Hu style and the style of Han Dynasty it presents have a deep effect on the costume of Tang Dynasty.The theater is a place where audience see a drama,which,to some extent,reflects its purpose,function and the situation ofperformance.Similarly,the place of the pan-drama form of the Northern Wei Dynasty can also reflect what is mentioned above.The name of theater has appeared in the Northern Wei Dynasty to refer to a fixed temple where performance is carried out,which is the heritage and development of previous places where people perform.But,at the same time,the performance place in the Northern Wei Dynasty is still in its initial stage,which only pays attention to arranging audience,not performance.The temple as a theater starts to have the functions of a temple fair where gate towers work as fixed viewing areas with a wide view.Folk performance places are divided into palace and square.For palaces,where banquets are held,carpets and screen shields are used and the seats for audience are arranged randomly,which presents a strong style of Hu.Squares can hold a large-scale show,where the ceremonial guard marches with more randomness from the pictures of historical relics.the Northern Wei Dynasty is a important stage for the development of Chinese drama.Diversified environment of art,promoted by the integration of Hu and Han,offers a lot of favorable conditions for integrating different kinds of techniques intopan-drama form.With the help of some customs of Tuoba Xianbei,masked drama-dance performance can break the shackles of class to present the characteristic of general public.Yuehu System,which refers to laws for female criminal or suspect who was forced to serve as a music player and prostitute,makes folk artists professional and the heritage of techniques constant.Due to their inferiority,to cater for the aesthetics of upper class,performers are sure to be a versatile who can sing,dance and so forth,which makes great contributions to dramas integrating various artistic techniques.In addition,pan-drama form of the Northern Wei Dynasty greatly impacts the content,role play and types pf drama afterwards.