Guo Qihong’s Drama Creation And Theoretical Research

Since the 1980 s,a number of influential playwrights such as Wei Minglun,Guo Qihong,Wang Renjie,Chen Yaxian,Luo Huaizhen and Zheng Huaixing have emerged in the Chinese theater circle.They have successively created classic plays with different aesthetic styles,profound themes and distinct characters.These plays highly publicize the subject spirit of "human" and the drama noumenon value,and have a wide range of social influence.In particular,Guo Qihong skillfully "circulates" between the creation of traditional opera and drama,and has created more than 60 plays.The historical figures in his plays are full of profound modern consciousness and deep thinking of social reality,embodiments a distinct contemporary stand,and contains profound cultural meaning.Based on the long-term drama creation experience,Guo Qihong creatively put forward the drama theory of vivid historical drama theory.Needless to say,Guo Qihong’s genius of drama creation and drama theory accumulation,has made a decisive contribution to the reform of the structure and form of Chinese drama,and even the innovation of drama art,constitute the "Guo Qihong phenomenon" of contemporary drama research.Guo Qihong devoted himself to writing about those men of letters who had little ambition but little talent.The "rediscovery" of intellectuals,especially the rethinking of the relationship between intellectuals and political power,has revealed the profound contradiction between Taoism and kingship.Guo Qihong queries human nature through the historical reality,respects the unique experience of each living body,and is full of humanistic spiritual connotation.Li Qingzhao,Zhuo Wenjun,Zhou Hou,Lady Huarui and other female figures everywhere highlight the distinct gender cultural consciousness and female subject consciousness,realizing the transformation of female character image construction from the edge to the center.Guo Qihong’s plays reflect the loneliness of life with the heaviness and cultural sense of historical dramas,and convey the author’s god through the vivid characters in the plays,involving a series of emperors,literati and female images.Guo Qihong inherits the aesthetic and creative ideas of traditional opera.Based on the height of modern consciousness,he weaves concrete symbols into a magnificent spiritual epic through freehand style.Guo Qihong deliberately pursues "poetry" in aesthetics and artistic conception in his drama creation.Guo Qihong fully considers the combination of national tradition and modern aesthetics.On the basis of inheriting Chinese classical culture,many works fully meet the aesthetic needs of modern audiences and pursue the "free conversion" of drama and opera,so that contemporary drama is no longer just a tool to reproduce the joys and sorrows of life,but on the basis of arousing modern people’s cultural identity and historical perception,through the "history" to examine the present,"real" glimpse of human nature.As the creation principle of the new historical drama stage put forward by Guo Qihong,the theory of Vivid historical drama is known as "the creation declaration of Chinese historical drama writers in the new period",which requires the drama to integrate the writer’s modern consciousness and subject consciousness in the content,and pursue the complete liberation of "drama" in the form.Guo Qihong began to freely wander in the alternating creation of opera and drama with his effective practice of the theory of vivid historical drama.Although the genre is different,it has distinct inheritance and development in the creation concept,and has formed its own unique style and temperament.Guo Qihong’s cross-cultural adaptation aims not only to sinicize foreign dramas and literary works,but also to find a common spiritual field linking Chinese and Western cultures.