Research On Ancient Opera Of The History Of Chinese Literature

Chinese literary history works is one of important ways for Chinese to know Chineseliterature and opera.As important part of Chinese literary history works,opera joint theworks as they turned out since early 20^th century.In ancient times,because of the lowstatus of Chinese opera,it had no position in the orthodox literature.Changes in operareflects changes in the history of literature.Therefore,This paper attempts to studyliterature history and opera history,opera Situation in 14 General History of Chinese andforeign literature in each period of the first half of 20th century to find more valuablecontent which is important for us to understand literary and opera history.This paper can be divided into three periods,five main parts.Three periods areexpounded,respectively,by three chapters,plus a preface and summary part,Chapterâ…£.Preface explains some of the main aims of the study,research presentation,researchsignificance,the selection of versions of literary history works,background of opera'sentry literary history works and the influence of foreigners' early Chinese literary historybook to the history of Chinese literature and opera and so on.The first period refers tothe period from 1904 to 1919,the first chapter,"opera entering into the history ofChinese literature."This period,mainly combined with two Chinese literary historybooks:Lin Chuanjia"History of Chinese Literature"(1904) Huang Ren,"History ofChinese Literature,"explains the initial shape and characteristics of opera into literaryhistory.Lin's literary history book took opera as"obscene words,"opposing opera toenter the literary history.Huang's literary history book took opera as"New Literature","Active Literature"in support of entry of opera into literature book.The second refers tothe period from 1920 to 1939,that is the second chapter,"the new pattern of opera at thehistory of Chinese literature."This period mainly explains,under the influence of the"May 4th"New Culture Movement and the western theory of evolution,opera hasgradually become a new pattern in the history of literature.This part focuses on thedifferent roles of six different styles of literary history and opera works played of the newpattern forming in the history of literature:literary historians and opera expert,Wu Mei,"History of Chinese Literature"(1920),Zhao Jingshen"A Short History of ChineseLiterature"(1928);pure literature history writer Hu Yunyi"New Book of ChineseLiterature"(1932),Liu Jingan"Chinese Pure Literature History"(1935);early historicalmaterialism from the perspective of He Kai"History of Chinese Literature"(1931),Zheng Zhenduo"Illustrated History of Chinese Literature"(1932).Wu Mei literary history book,concerned about the Ku opera,focusing on elegance.Zhao Jingshenliterary history book,changing from focusing on elegance to focusing on popular takesopera as"a pure art".Hu Yunyi literary history book,saying Yuan opera as"newliterature",Ming legend as"popular literature."Liu Jingan literary history book believeopera reflecting the"the true face"of literature.He Kai literary history book is the firstbook edited under the guidance of Historical Materialism.Zheng Zhenduo literaryhistory book,firstly,classify Chinese opera into popular literature areas.The third periodrefers to the part from 1940 to 1949,that is,Chapterâ…¢"the new paradigm of opera inthe history of Chinese literature."This period is mainly to introduce,the history ofliterature and opera,after a difficult experience of the first period and second period,style get sophisticated and paradigm get established.Especially,the opera as a newparadigm in literary history book has been accepted by the society.There are twoChinese literary history books which are on behalf of the period achievement,also onbehalf of the highest level of the first half of the 20th century Chinese literary historybook and the opera,namely,Lin Geng,"History of Chinese Literature"(1947),Liu Dajie,"History of Chinese Literary Development"(second volume,1949).Lin's literary historybook is a production of poet's acuity.Liu's literary history is representative of the historyof Chinese literature new paradigm.Chapterâ…£is to summarize,draw conclusions,generalize the paper,especially generally expound on some regular issues,such asthe impact of Wang Guowei opera thought to the history of Chinese literature andChinese opera;the evolution of the first half of 20th century literature history and operahistory;the research significance of the relationship between opera and Chinese literaryhistory of the first half of the 20th century.I think the changes of opera in literary history affecting the changes of literary historyworks;the changes of opera image in literary history works affecting the changes ofliterary history works image;The combination of opera and literary history works is notsimply to put opera into literary history works,in fact,which created,through thecombination,a new"essence."Therefore,only mastering the change law and studyingthe"essence"in-depth can make us really understand the opera's"true face",writeliterary history works and opera part better in the future.