On The Fundamental Esthetic Characteristic Of Chinese Historical Teleplays

This thesis takes the Chinese historical teleplays as the study object,starts the proof from their fundamental esthetic characteristics. The so-called Chinese historical teleplays in this thesis refer to artistically created teleplays which are based on real historical figures and real historical events instead of those which take myths, folk tales, the modern life or the future life as the contents of teleplays. In other words, the important figures in the teleplays really existed in the history and the significant events once happened in the history, which have been recorded as historical facts, namely, true personages and true events in the history. That is to say, their principal aspects such as the historical events, the historical spirits, the historical atmospheres and so on are in accordance with the history, and their artistic fictions do not harm the historical authenticity, that is, the artistic imaginations must take root in the historical facts.The general train of thought in doing research is: under the guidance of historical and esthetic methodologies, this paper discusses the fundamental esthetic characteristics of Chinese historical teleplays from different subject perspectives such as the history, the cultural science, the narrative science, the science of acceptance of esthetics, the artistic philosophy, the science of literary appreciation, the science of literary and artistic psychology, the science of film and television cultures, the science of mass culture dissemination and so on. The paper undertakes the research chiefly on"the fundamental esthetic characteristics of Chinese historical teleplays"from seven aspects, namely, the authenticity, tragic consciousness, the transcendence of tragedy, the quality of epic, the unfamiliarity, the modernity, the quality of acceptance. It not only deeply researches into the historic value and real value of historical teleplays but takes into great consideration the summary of the artistic and esthetic characteristics of historical teleplays so as to summarize the interaction between the historical factors and the esthetic factors in creating historical teleplays.The paper starts with the most essential esthetic quality of historical teleplays, namely, the authenticity, and discusses two aspects, that is, the historical authenticity and the artistic authenticity. The important characters and the significant events in the historical teleplays once really lived or occurred in the history, the qualities of most of which have been settled. Through real persons and real events, historical teleplays indicate the manners and course of history by means of direct form, and consequently, the historical authenticity implied in the historical materials have become the core of playwrights'creation of historical teleplays. Since it is impossible for the primary"history"to reappear and to be renovated, the authenticity of historical teleplays can only be the authenticity of the one named as"the second nature"which has been shown in accordance with the possibility of the historical life and the hypothesis principle of artistic creation. In order to display the authenticity of history, it is required that the playwrights discard the dross and keep the essential, eliminate the false and retain the true, sift grains of gold from sand to abstract the rich life materials from the historical materials and describe the typical lives in history according to the requirements and law of art so that: the artistic authenticity has been contained in the historical authenticity, the artistic fiction serves the realization of the artistic authenticity, the real unification of the historical authenticity and the artistic authenticity can be achieved and thus the regression of dramatic noumenon of historical teleplays can be realized.The second chapter mainly discusses the esthetic connotation of tragic consciousness of historical teleplays. This kind of teleplays has inherited the narrative tradition of tragic consciousness from excellent traditional Chinese culture, tremendously carried forward the tragic spirits of Chinese nation's courage to resist and crystallized strong tragic consciousness. By the reappearance of historical persons and historical events in different times, the historical teleplays indicate the struggling spirit of tragic and soul-stirring heroes with strong character, integrity and courage, form a kind of tragic esthetic styles whose main tone is noble, tragic and soul-stirring and display the esthetic value of historical mirror image which alone possesses such charm. Historical teleplays make the audience approach the lofty in the sincere historical feelings, which is the inevitability of carefully examining the history and the national spirit. They promote the tragic consciousness to a height which is connected with some kind of social, political, ethical or utilitarian objectives and is treated as one kind of power to reconstruct the national spirit, enhance the national vigor and advance China's development. As a result, more audiences will discover and understand the essence and the real circumstances of human beings'survival while appreciating the history, sensibly think about human beings, life and the world and closely question the ultimate value and significance of human beings'survival.The third chapter elaborates that tragedy hero try their best to complete the transcendence of limitation, present situation and reality of their own. The ultimate purposes of tragedy consciousness are the positive transcendence of tragical difficulties, the high-spirited essence of life, and present affirmative content by the negative form. It rises to a higher esthetic dimension, and has a kind of self-conscious transcendence consciousness----tragedy spirit. During great crucifixion and pain, the tragedy hero fight of their own for the ethic morality and dignity of life, and regard bounteous sacrifice as a kind of glory. Although they passed away, their half-baked noble careers still continue. Even they failed, but are glorious; dead but alive. Their value of life and strength of personality are improved to the max limit, show uncommon and noble characteristics, and finish the life course of tragedy hero. The positive transcendence of tragedy can clean the spirit; sublime the emotion, deep the thought of audience by its profound truth, splendid poetics and heroical pattern. The audience can conquer heartbroken pain by great foresight, direct tragedy transcendence, get rescue and liberation and make it, which are social and esthetic values. In general, the pinnacle experience of tragically enthusiasm show many real but rigorous pictures of history on the screen by esthetic art of teleplays, recall the missing historical consciousness and ethic emotion, become sensible expression with epoch characteristics and ethic spirits, explore and flash the light of sense and wisdom, indicate real condition of humanism and nationality in certain historical situation, and then arouse conscience and arose multi-dimensional of rational thoughts.The fourth chapter refers to the epic esthetic characteristics of the historical teleplays, which reflects the special social life styles and revolutionary methods of Chinese ethics in certain history epoch, and also is artistic monument of ethics and epoch. The historical narrative pattern takes one kind of collective unconsciousness, and gets the inheritance from the teleplays of significant historical event and characters. Most of Chinese historical teleplays adopt"annalistic style"and"biography style"to reflect the social life characteristics in China, and almost all of the teleplays take the"the entire knowledge angle of view"by third person as the narrative leading angle of view, and basically tell the story according to development order of historical life. It not only provides the knowledge background and historical view, but also has summary and evaluation functions. Also, there is short change about the limited angle of view of characters, so that the reasons, course, and result of the historical events in the developing chain can be indicated and hidden. Based on the historical material, show the greatness of narration of epic, figure hero in epic, blazon forth and rebuild ethic spirit by esthetic comparison, and pursue and display epic pattern during the hero esthetic growth of heroism and elevation.The fifth chapter discusses the esthetic characteristics of the"the unfamiliarity"of"the unfamiliarity". The artistic charm of historical teleplays come from the alienated feeling which is different from daily life, breaks the expectation, renews their reading experience, and bring artistic esthetic surprise. The time space between history and reality causes the mental distance of historical esthetic care; the multiplication angle of views for narration enable historical teleplays full filled with strange art tensile force. The strangeness of historical text enables the actualization of history, the dialectic consolidation of realism of history, and also inspires the great enthusiasm of the audience to make the reality better, and then carry out the art value of strange esthetic improvement of historical teleplays.The sixth chapter discusses the modernity of Chinese historical teleplays. The course of making Chinese historical teleplays is the conversation between history and reality, which penetrates the modernity consciousness of principal part, and absorb necessary culture wisdom and art inspiration from history. It edits the historical narration and reality care into a mutual open structure, links the broken historical spirit by art form, takes the modification of ethic memory as his responsibility, seeks the significant of realism of historical gentle words, uses history as references, explores humanism resonance form the distinctions of history and reality, and drives the thoughts for historical modernity and modern history of the audience.Finally, from the acceptance of esthetic angle, this thesis annotates the newly explanation and dialog of the audience for the historical teleplays in different level and epoch. The historical teleplays shall meet and adapt the expectation of audience, surpass audience, and make audience. Make the expectation of audience amalgamates with the historical teleplays text, and let the audience join the esthetic activity of creation and acceptance. The audience can improve the appreciation level and culture apperception with different historical view.The research of the main esthetic characteristics of Chinese historical teleplays shall put the teleplays into the new epoch historical situation, especially into the transferring epoch of society, discuss it based on history, culture, narration and acceptable esthetics, and evaluate and estimate the relative events and persons in history with materialistic view. The Chinese historical teleplays shall bear and rebuild the value system of Chinese culture, remold the task of ethic sole, and realize the value and charm during the course of internationalization and dialog and communication, and support the historical practices with deport culture, strengthen modern humanism and scientific sense, take the task of recalling conscience of society, put endeavor into improving cultural cultivation and spiritual ambit, and contribute the modernization of Chinese culture and ethic rational spirits.