The Research Of Disaster Writing In "Sixty Melodies"

As a part of human history,disaster not only relates to all aspects of social life,but also has long been the object of literary creation.It not only has a great influence in the field of social life,but also has a certain connection with the content and art form of opera creation.As a representative legendary collection of the Ming Dynasty,the Sixty Melodies contains many classic southern opera,Zaju and legendary works.Among them,there are as many as 46 works dealing with disasters,not only a considerable number,but also the types and forms of disasters involved.This paper takes the southern opera,Zaju and legendary works included in Sixty Melodies as the research scope,and takes the disaster writing as the research object.Based on the statistics of disaster writing works in Sixty Melodies and the classification of different types of disasters,the emotional characteristics and artistic expression forms of disaster writing in the works are analyzed,and the value and significance of disaster writing in Sixty Melodies is summarized by the case study of Pipa Ji.The introduction part mainly explains the basis of the topic selection of this article,defines the related concept of the disaster writing of "Sixty Melodies",frame the research object of this article,the disaster writing research situation involved in Chinese ancient literature research and drama research is summarized,the research results and need to be further space.The first chapter makes statistics on the works involving disaster writing in Sixty Melodies,classifies the disasters involved,summarizes the natural variation disasters and the human influence disasters,and summarizes the characteristics and distribution of the four sub-disasters contained in the two major disasters.The second chapter explores the emotional characteristics of disaster writing in Sixty Melodies.This feature is the most direct feature of disaster writing in the works.The disaster writing corresponding to the two categories of disasters presents different emotional characteristics.It includes showing the characters’ loyal stance of worrying about the country and the people through the disaster,describing and narrating the disaster from the perspective of the victims,expressing sympathy for the disaster-stricken groups,and reflecting people’s emotional tendency of yearning for happiness and well-being and praying for the elimination of disasters.The third chapter analyzes the artistic presentation of disaster writing in Sixty Melodies,and analyzes the forms and characteristics of disaster writing in various aspects of artistic presentation of works.The works describe and depict disasters from reality,taking them as daily and life events,and participating in the formation of dramatic conflicts.The emotion and attitude of the characters reflected in the disaster writing become a major source of the authenticity of the characters.The setting and application of Kejie in the disaster writing of Sixty Melodies make the emotional expression and inner activities of the characters more consistent with the characteristics of opera performance,and enhance the artistry of the work.The fourth chapter is a case study of disaster writing in Sixty Melodies.This paper takes Pipa Ji as a typical case to explore the characteristics and artistic contributions of disaster writing.The Story of the Pipa wins with its realistic depiction of life.It deeply integrates "natural disaster" and "man-made disaster".The work realistically depicts the struggle of the characters in the disaster,the dark distortion of human nature,the impermanence of the characters’ fate,and portrays a series of fresh and independent characters.The work successfully describes and presents a series of elements such as social life and human conditions with precise and appropriate words,creating a unique disaster reality artistically.The fifth chapter sums up the value and significance of disaster writing in Sixty Melodies.The disaster writing in Sixty Melodies not only shows the literati’s feelings of worrying about home and country,but also highlights the living situation and suffering reality of vulnerable groups affected by disasters under the reality of disaster,and promotes the value orientation of encouraging good and punishing evil through the real description and presentation of the folk situation.