| The History of Chinese Drama written by Xu Mu-yun represents the change of emphasis from text to stage on Chinese aesthetics study. It expands the territory of the study on Chinese traditional opera, and provides us a new optical angle of finding the essence of this art form. The History of Chinese Drama focus on the character of actor in drama aesthetics which has tighter relationship with the essence of drama, and correct the ignorance of the character of actor in the study on the modern history of Chinese traditional drama in 20's. It has very important developmental meaning as a concept on the reconstruction of drama history according to performance.The concept of "Chinese traditional opera" should be a concept of performance at first, it expands the extension of the concept of "Chinese traditional opera" and regard "Chinese traditional opera" and modern drama as important parts of "drama". This change has great developmental meaning of reconstructing the concept of "drama". Xu Mu-yun generalizes the feature of art aesthetics of traditional opera as "The equal importance of singing and dancing to deliver the spirit of art". Compare Xu Mu-yun's research with other scholar's research, he noticed not only the outside feature but also the inside feature by studying on inside feature. This makes his understanding of traditional opera aesthetics dynamic not only according to text, this understanding is closer to the truth of aesthetics feature of drama. The core of Xu Mu-yun's aesthetics thought is the thought of the essence of traditional opera which is clearly shown on his comparing with Chinese and foreign drama's essence. First Xu Mu-yun puts them in the same level, then he compares them to find the differences of their essence. In this way we can study the advanced drama of foreign country to correct the merit of ours on the base of understanding the essence feature of traditional opera. These two aspects are the most important problem in the revolution of Chinese traditional opera. |
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