The Reform Of Yan'an Opera And The Popularization Of Chinese Literature And Art In The 20th Century

In the process of the reform of Yan'an opera,many works had been produced such as the reclaiming of brother and sister,the white haired girl,forced to join rebels and a large number of excellent plays,which participated effectively in the construction of a new nation,including created a new form of art,the new Yangko opera and other traditional opera.The result of which the reform of Yan' an opera was open,coruscate vitality by the mature and closed Chinese traditional opera to the reality of life with the times.The reform of Yan' an opera is not only a representative achievement of Yan' an literature and art,but also a cultural event with the most intense conflicts,which is the most intense tension and the most important historical status in the new Chinese literature history in the twentieth Century.Based on further clear cognition of Yan' an opera reform,we can provide a new perspective for the objective of Yan' an literature and art and in twentieth Century China new literature history,sum up the "Chinese explore experience",provide ideas for the development of mass culture Chinese present and development of world culture,in order to cast"Chinese discourse",establish the"China image" and spread "Chinese civilization".This paper consists of three parts including the introduction,main body and conclusion.The introduction part cleans up the reform of Yan' an opera research history from the historical data,external research and internal research aspects,points out that Yan'an opera reform research is lack of profundity.Only from perspective of"popularization of literature and art"can introduction of research possibly to close Yan' an opera reform of the history of the site,completely hold the historical experience of twentieth Century Chinese new literature.The main body is composed of four chapters.The first chapter discuses Chinese opera reform in the twentieth century.As a new literature and literary trend,the popularization of literature and art is strongly advocatedin the twentieth Century Chinese.The essence of the popularization of literature and artis that the intellectuals can try their best to take full use of literature to spread modern thought to the public.As an integrated audio-visual art form integrating music,dance,art and literature,opera became the first weapon for the new intellectuals of China in twentieth Century for its natural and popular character.Therefore,the reform of opera had been the main trend of the development of drama since the late Qing Dynasty,and it was also an important direction of the popularization of literature and art in the twentieth Century.By the control of the popularization of literature and art,opera-reforming in the late Qing Dynasty made achievements both in theory and practice,but endedin theconflict betweenthe traditional forms and enlightenment contents.The May Fourth Literature Revolution directly bypassed this difficult problem,chose the drama imported from the west,and excluded the drama from the field of enlightening literature.After 1930' s,the intellectuals picked up this popular art form,attempted to reform it to promote enlightenment,but caught in the whirlpool of opera form and content,unable to extricate themselves.At the same time,the reform of opera and the popularity of literature and art encountered a dilemma which needed to break through.The second chapter discusses in Yan' an opera reform in the twentieth century popular literature.Yan'an opera reform with its eye-catching achievements breakthrough in the popularization of literature and drama reform in twentieth Century.The process of opera reform can be divided into two stages by the Yan' an Forum on literature and art.The first stage is the theoretical and practical exploration.The main background of the debate is "ethnic form debate",and the "drama fever" and the performances of the traditional costume opera are important practice background.The second stage is the stage of practice,in the "peasants and soldiers as the main object,increase in popularity" approach under the guidance of Yan' an intellectuals absorbed the folk culture resources,to create a new form of art,the new yangko opera,modernopera and other traditional opera such as Shaanxi opera,Peking opera and so on.The third chapter discussesthe complementary relationship between modern theme and folk interest to Yan'an opera text reform."Resistance "and" labor "is the main theme of Yan'an opera reform",which is the inheritance of "the spirit of enlightenment",alsoan important achievements of the enlightening spirit of "the May 4th Movement".Matching with the modern theme is the national aesthetic taste,reunion structure which is the basic mode of traditional opera Chinese,completely overturned in the" the May 4th"period,so intellectuals of Yan' an conform to folk aesthetic habits,re-pick up the transformedstructure,eventually form a new opera reunion structure.The fourth chapter discusses the literary thoughts and practice ofpopularization of literature.The trend of the popularization of literature and art is the fundamental starting point of enlightenment which is a never-ending pursuit of mankind to people,but also a infinitely close to the target.Therefore,the popularization of literature and art is a kind of forever in advancing cultural ideology,rather than a some have the end of cultural practice.Mass culture is the concrete manifestation of the trend of popularization of literature and art in China at present.Chinese popularization of literature in the twentieth Century can provide "China valuable experience" for the development of China and global popular culture in reality,insisting on criticism,rational overall with the globalization of culture and national issues.On the basis of the above discussion,the author further thinks about the significance and value of the research on the reform of Yan' an opera.In a word,the reform of Yan'an opera takes the theme of modern ideological enlightenment and the collection of national aesthetic interest as the two wings,so that the popularization of Chinese literature in twentieth Century has really been carried out.From the perspective of literature and art popularization,a comprehensive review of the reform of Yan' an opera has not only the academic value of literary history,but also the rich experience of China for the development of Chinese literature and world literature at present".