A Study On Sanqu's Ideas In The Yuan Dynasty

Yuan Sanqu, which is one of several focus research areas of Chinese ancient literature, is almost "analyzed" using related sources before 1980s. Their conclusions are always "objective" and "of the time", but are not from a view of Yuan dynasty's. This paper will discuss how Yuan dynasty's people view their Sanqu, i.e. Yuan Sanqu's ideology.This paper is divided into two parts: the "theory" and the "source". The "theory" parts have six chapters, majority answered the following questions:Chapter 1, Firstly, words of pop songs of Song dynasty and Jin Dynasty, some sources can still be found today, are listed, Yuan Sanqu's original character, which the author think they have a deeply influence to the formation of Yuan Sanqu's ideology, is discussed. Then, the formation of environment of Sanqu's ideology of Yuan dynasty's are outlined both from the macro background - society and the micro background - literature.Chapter 2 and 3 discussed with Yuan Sanqu's ideology, which is the center of this paper. Firstly, 219 authors of Yuan Sanqu are classified with carefully review, these authors are divided into early stage and later stage based on their era, seven groups based on their social position. Then, Theme preference of different stage is drawn from quantity statistics operation to all Yuan Sanqu writings that we can find today. Finally, the character and ideology of Yuan dynasty's theme is discussed based on writings and related literature theory. The mainly difference from other researches is by using statistics, which break through the "proof + reasoning" mode, erect some fault come from their coarse grasping and got some different view.Chapter 4 and 5 try to resolve creation ideology and function ideology on the creation method, function classification and related Sanqu theory. In the creation side, Yuan Sanqu merged and absorbed many parts and also has innovation, in the function side, it developed from entertainment to a platform of express literati's idea, and both have the character of diversity.Chapter 5 is a case study of Sanqu's ideology of Yuan dynasty's, focus on the writing"Lu Gui Bu"by Zhong Sicheng.The "source" part has 3 chapters. Chapter 7 is an overview of 20 century's research of Yuan Sanqu. Chapter 8 is biographies of all the 219 Yuan Sanqu authors. Chapter 9 is an overview of Yuan Sanqu sources.By the way, taste and style are also important parts of Yuan Sanqu's ideology. New results would have draw with more times.