| Guan Han-qing is a distinguished dramatist and writer in the Chinese antique drama history. Someone had studied Guan Han-qing in Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasty. But none of the study is integrative and systematic. "The Study on Opera in Song and Yuan Dynasty",written by Wang Guo-wei published in 1913 ,which was regarded as the beginning marker of the opera study in modern times in China. From then on ,the study about Guan Han-qing entered into an active and fast developing stage especially in modern and current times. More and more people began to study Guan oriented In textual method on the base of the study of Wang Guo-wei , Wu Mei and some others who had been regarded as the first scholars paying attention to Guan. Later ,some scholars such as Hu Shi, Wang Ji-Si, Sun Kai-Di, Feng Yuan-jun, Zhao Zhen-duo tried to study Guan in not only textual method but also sociological method, especially the latter. Of course their work gave a new view to the study of Guan at that time .In 1958 the World Peace Council named Guan Han-qing the eminent person of world culture, and then the world saw a lot of study on Guan and lots of Guan's operas had been put on. While all the study of at that stage didn't orient in literature, drama and their writers, but in the writer's life and native place ,theme .character and so forth, and also affected seriously by political ideology. In such situation the literature study was dissimilated and distorted, and of course Guan Han-qing was nor longer regarded as a dramatist and a writer, but a militant struggling against feudalism. There is no doubt that the study was confined by the meanwhile history.There are some reasons to bear out that this article is a novel discussion on Guan Han-qing. First, we study Guan Han-qing from a new perspective. We attempt to give readers an authentic Guan Han-qing as a dramatist and a writer. We synthetically analyze the moral culture character, creation style, esthetic inspect and art psychology of Guan in the special context on the ground of Guan's works and the social background of both his times and that before his times. Second ,we give the study of Guan Han-qing a new orientation. Guan Han-qing,I think ,is neither a militant with bellicose nature nor a so-called prodigal talent but a literati talent. Studying Guan and his works in the light of this point .we'll find the unique literati manner and esthetic charm in Guan Han-qing and his works. Third, we study Guan Han-qing for a new purpose. Of course, we'll restore an authentic Guan Han-qing to readers through the analysis of Guan Han-qing and all his works, what's more we want to explain how to study the traditional dramatic culture in current context and develop it in order that they will take on a new look and reveal its new art charm .The above will be a train of thought of classic culture study and will provide an outlet through which classic culture study may make its way out of predicament.There are 160 thousand characters in this article and divided into four chapters .In the 1st chapter, we analyze and criticize the standpoint of bellicose nature of Guan Han-qing ,set our mind that Guan Han-qing was a literati talent, and expound his culture nature. In the 2nd chapter, we focus on Guan's creative work on drama. In this section we'll analyze all kinds of culture conception, ideological content, creative skills in Guan's dramas and point out Guan's complicated ideology. Furthermore, we show how the ideology of Guan and his works integrate and at last why we regard Guan as a literati talent. In the 3rd chapter, we explore Guan's mood during his creation and summarize the style, achievement, historical status and affect of Guan's lyric verse. In the last chapter, we pay attention to the historical value and bottleneck in the study of Guan Han-qing and show how the traditional drama especially Guan's drama develop and renew in current popular culture.
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