Excerpts From The Study Of The Ming Dynasty

The opera highlights in the Ming Dynasty is the preliminary stage that we can understand the production and forming process of opera highlights. It is a beneficial supplement to chinese opera history to collate and describe the formation and content of opera highlights .The first chapter of this article discusses the causes of opera highlights'emerging. On the one hand, it is a result of the social living condition's chang in the mid and late Ming Dynasty. On the other hand, it is because of the essential characteristic of opera. In the mid and late Ming Dynasty, opera highlights have become extravagant. People used the opera highlights to adds to the fun in the banquet. They also regard the opera highlights as a good present to pleased gods and human being in the holiday and the period of worshipping God. But most of these activities have the time limit ,which provided the turning point to the change of the drama's shape. Meanwhile, it is easy to accept the section performance manner because China ancient singing often perform in this way during a long time. Therefore, the external condition that opera highlights formed were ripe at this period. At the same time, drama structure mostly are loose, so that it is easy to split. The drama length is too long to perform easily in short time. So, the opera highlights arised at the historic moment.The second chapter collates and analyzes all the state of opera highlights anthology in Ming Dynasty. This chapte takes the anthology of opera highlights in Ming Dynasty as the main material and the relevant information disclosed from many note, novel, local chronicle and so on as the supplementary material. In this chapter, the analysis and description to the state of opera highlights in the Ming Dynasty is divided into four stages: from the beginning of Ming Dynasty to the Jiajing time, the Wanli time, the Tianqi and Chong Zhen time and lingering time, in order to grasp the development vein of opera highlights in the Ming Dynasty and discuss and summarize the performance and characteristic of opera highlights in each stages.The third and forth chapters of this article explore the evolution of opera highlights in the Ming Dynasty and the opera development reflected from opera highlights. The opera highlights in the Ming Dynasty have left traces of evolution at the subject, the type of role, the operatic tune and the dialogue and monologue. The opera highlights with abundant enthusiasm and closing to reality selected from the outstanding drama were favorable. Accompanied by the changes of social cultural thought and aesthetic standards, the subject of opera highlights will also have changed. This chapter also summarizes the key role during the process that the type of role split up and form its characteristic especially for the Huadan and Jing by statistic and analyze the opera highlights been well received in each stages. Gundiao and the additions or deletions of the dialogue and monologue reflect the efforts to enhance the stage effects.The fifth chapter of this article discusses the influence of opera highlights in the Ming Dynasty. It expresses the thinking for the relations between the performance and literariness of chinese traditional drama through the comparison between the contents and forms of opera highlights in the Ming Dynasty and one act drama. On the other hand, the opera highlights in the Ming Dynasty is the source of many modern local opera's. The opera highlights in the Ming Dynasty always have to go through a substantial transformation to be able to enter the local opera. The local operas transformed often differ greatly with the original opera highlights, but the opera highlights'contribution of origination is still indelible.The conclusion part summarizes the status and function of the opera highlights in the Ming Dynasty. The opera highlights in the Ming Dynasty should be an important part of Chinese opera history. It's necessary and exciting that it is further explored.The appendix part first researches and reorganizes the anthology of opera highlights in Ming Dynasty carefully, especially make a lot of study and discrimination on the time these book published and the situation that different books have same names, in order to grasp objectively the first-hand study material Next, this part collates comprehensively the lists of drama and opera highlights in each stage and make a table for it. So that the performanc of each opera highlights at different stages can be clear at a glance. It is very convenient and simple to use to research.