A Study On Storys Of Wise Mother Educating Offspring In Ancient Chinese Operas

In the traditional Chinese context,family education is as important as school education.As an important form of family education,the story of the virtuous mother educating offspring enters the opera and the novel with one factor,one paragraph and one scene,embellished with various opera stories.Most of the works from Yuan Dynasty to the early Ming Dynasty were characterized by conservatism,showing the feudal parents’ image of virtuous mother.Accordingly,the story of talented scholars and lovely ladies formed a creative upsurge,strong lyric atmosphere,this period of the virtuous mother offspring story,formed a lot of talented and beautiful virtuous mother educating offspring story,the virtuous mother also gradually tends to gentle,valuing feelings image.Qing Dynasty social science return,short liberation and impact is the re-establishment and emphasis on moral etiquette,the virtuous mother educating offspring story after the combination of reason and sensibility formed a reasonable and compatible excellent works.In the Yuan,Ming and Qing dynasties,among many virtuous mother educating offspring story drama,the typical examples are the SanYuan Ji of the ShangLu and Double Crown Letters.As the important node of the Yuan Dynasty historical drama and the public case drama turning to the Ming Dynasty love drama and the family drama,the SanYuan Ji of the ShangLu takes the delicate marriage story of the talented and beautiful people as the bone,and the moral education story of the virtuous mother godson as the flesh and blood.On the one hand,the playwright develops the story mode of double virtuous mother and shapes the virtuous mother into a talented ladies image.This pursuit of love and talent has a direct impact on the works of Huai Xiang Ji,Yuhuan Ji,SanYuan Bao and many talented women in the novels of Ming and Qing dynasties,which not only shows the playwright’s concern for female talent,but also shows the scope of women’s activities and the subtle change of social roles.On the other hand,the author adapted the classic of Meng Mu broken weaving on the loom,and changed the status of mother and son and the relationship between mother and son,and finally presented a new classic story such as Xuemei broken weaving on the loom.During the period of Qing Kang Qian,the appearance of Chen Erbai’s legendary opera Double Crown Letters opened another face of the story of virtuous mother educating offspring.On the one hand,Double Crown Letters represents Jingchai Ji,Wanquan Ji,Simei Ji and so on,which reflect the social reality of the virtuous mother educating offspring repertoire,showing the poor and strong virtuous mother spirit,writing the bitter story of the virtuous mother offspring.On the other hand,under the concept of family and country integration,the works of the story of virtuous mother educating offspring began to join the bilinear writing framework of hero saving the country and virtuous mother caressing the orphan.This kind of writing structure inherite Xiang Nang Ji and Yun Pi Ji,inspire later Xiao Nv Cun Gu,so that the virtuous mother godson story no longer stay on the level of household chores,and turn to loyal monarch to serve the country,filial piety to loyalty.This kind of bitter thought and the concept of loyalty and filial piety,far from Confucius and Mencius Confucianism,is not only a criticism of Cheng Zhu Neo-Confucianism as a tool of feudal rule,but also a reflection of ancient sages.In addition,under the influence of Double Crown Letters and the SanYuan Ji of the ShangLu,the famous story drama San Niang educating her son came into being.