Research On Liang Chenyu's Thoughts On Opera Creation

Liang Chenyu was a famous opera writer in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.His greatest contribution to the development of opera was to consciously create Huan Sha Ji according to Kunshan's metrical pattern.Since Liang's,a large number of opera writers began to use Kunshan's metrical pattern to write legendary plays,actively promoting the development of Kunqu opera and making Kunqu opera shine brilliantly in the history of drama development.As for the research of Liang Chenyu's drama creation thoughts,the current research on Liang Chenyu's drama works is mainly focused on Huan Sha Ji and less on Sin Nui Hung.Therefore,the research on summarizing Liang Chenyu's creation thoughts is still relatively weak.This article takes Liang Chenyu's extant opera works Huan Sha Ji and Sin Nui Hung as the main research objects,and the poems and Sanqu collected in Lucheng Poetry Anthology and Jiangdong Bai Zhu as supplementary materials to elaborate Liang Chenyu's opera creation concept from a comprehensive and overall perspective,thus deepening Liang Chenyu's research.The first chapter of this article discusses the factors that affect Liang Chenyu's opera creation from two aspects : "the awakening of scholars' self-consciousness","the influence of" friends "on Liang Chenyu's opera creation".The second chapter focuses on the literary view of Liang Chenyu's drama creation.Liang Chenyu attaches great importance to the lyrical features of drama.His drama combines "literariness" and "stage nature",revealing the author's aesthetic view of drama,which is elegant and popular.At the same time,Liang Chenyu criticized the rough-and-tumble adaptation of the South Opera and believed that the adaptation of the opera should take its essence and respect its essence.The third chapter,Liang Chenyu,based on historical facts,integrates his own values on the basis of predecessors' creation.Through the analysis of Huan Sha Ji and Sin Nui Hung,he explores Liang Chenyu's concept of historical drama.The fourth chapter discusses Liang Chenyu's view on women through the analysis of female images in Liang Chenyu's opera works.Liang Chenyu attached great importance to the image-building of women in the lower class society,revealing the ideological trend of "valuing women over men" and showing the progressive concept of women.However,at the same time,the female images in Liang Chenyu's works are shaped from the male perspective,and they are idealized women serving the male center.