Pai Hsien-yung And Chinese Traditional Opera

Pai Hsien-yung was renowned in the Chinese literary for his novels.In his later years,he devoted himself to the research and promotion of Kunqu Opera,which once again attracted the attention of the literary and art circles.Thesis focused on Pai Hsien-yung bidirectional interaction between Chinese traditional opera culture.On the one hand,Opera enriched his life and novels.On the other hand,he also noticed the Opera is on the verge of extinction.Pai Hsien-yung thought deeply about this phenomenon and put the revival and inheritance of Kunqu Opera into practice.The main content of the thesis consists of four parts.The first chapter mainly sorts out the different types of Operas that Pai Hsien-yung has watched,and compares his experience of Operas with his novel writing.Different Operas are associated with different regions,and the writer’s walking track and mood changes are also embedded in them.This chapter makes an in-depth study of the origin of Pai Hsien-yung and the Operas mentioned in his novels.And then find out the mood changes caused by Cross-regional migration,which reflected by the novels’ Operas writing parts.The second chapter analyzes the relationship between Opera and novel narrative.The Opera allusions,Opera imagery and Opera music plays an important role in the rhetoric of the novels.The meaning of the metaphor of the novel were derived by the Opera allusions,and the connotation of the original Opera allusions were also reconstructed and even deconstructed through the metaphor.The garden image is common in traditional Chinese Opera script,and it was also absorbed by the novels.Pai Hsien-yung transformed it into two kinds of garden images: romantic garden and desolated garden.In addition,the effect of opera music on the novel is mainly reflected in the structure.As a melody,it also regulates the atmosphere of the novel,adjusts the rhythm of the story,and makes the novel achieve a natural transition in terms of time and space switch.The third chapter pays attention to Pai Hsien-yung’s Opera practice.Pai Hsien-yung’s Opera practice consists of two parts,one is the Opera part in the stage play and the other is Kunqu Opera production.The adaptation process of "Wandering in the Garden,Waking from a Dream" is quite representative,and the treatment of the Opera elements can also represent Pai Hsien-yung’s Opera production ideas and techniques in the early stage.After that,Pai Hsien-yung began to separate the Opera from the stage play,and tried to make independent folding Opera and even the whole Opera.Pai Hsien-yung’s Opera practice is a response to the Chinese Opera improvement movement since the 20 th century,and also inspired a new path for the development of Opera and drama in the 21 st century.On the basis of the first three chapters,the fourth chapter extracts and generalizes Pai Hsien-yung ’s view of Opera.In general,from the novel to the stage play and then to the youth version of Kunqu Opera,his ideas on Opera revolve around three aspects: "tradition and modernity","nationality and the worldwide","elegance and the accessibility".In general,Pai Hsien-yung has a deep connection with Chinese traditional Opera culture.Opera not only entered his life,but his novels.And then realized the three-dimensional visual presentation from novel to stage through the stage plays adapted from novels.Finally,Opera has become a cultural undertaking,he try his best to inherit and promote.Along the way,the Opera always in Pai Hsien-yung ’s life,and his cognition of the Opera is deepening,and the Opera gradually beyond the category of individual,rising to a national cultural undertaking.