Research On The Significance Of Festival Folklore Of Sixty Plays

Sixty kinds of plays compiled by Mao jin,a famous publisher in the Ming dynasty,is one of the most influential and popular anthology of plays.Sixty kinds of plays consists of a wide range of topics,including love plays,political plays,morality plays and fairy plays,etc.There are a lot of works in Sixty kinds of plays which describe festivals,such as Qingming Festival,Double Ninth Festival,Qixi Festival,Laba Festival,Zhongyuan Festival,Dragon Boat Festival,Mid-Autumn Festival,the Spring Festival holidays,etc.Among them,works about the Dragon Boat Festival,the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Spring Festival holidays,account for a large proportion.The descriptions of the “the three festivals” promote the development of the plots,create the atmosphere of the story,the conflicts and suspense.In the background of“the three festivals”,Sixty kinds of Plays highlights the characters and depicts the psychology of characters.This work also depicts characters which relates to festival customs.The descriptions of customs about“the three festivals”in this work enrich the aesthetic taste and also meet the performance requirements of the seasonal plays.