The Drama Creation In The Early Ming Dynasty Under The Horizon Of Neo-confucianism

The early Ming dynasty is a comparatively important period In the Drama history , which connects with the Yuan Drama and Iegend. The early Ming dynasty has a close relationship with the political and administrative policies, so it is possible to research from the Angle of neo-confucianism in the drama of this period. This paper choose"The Drama Creation in the Early Ming Dynasty Under the horizon of Neo-confucianism"for this topic , which intends to explore the Drama under the background of neo-confucianism office-oriented education ,in the hope of accurately gasping the main trend of the drama writing in early Ming dynasty . With this goal as guidance, the paper is divided into three parts:The first chapter overview of Ming neo-confucianism office-oriented education process and drama policies, even the changes resulting in authors team and performance places. Because this period main drama writing is a social upper aristocrat in noble, who more suffered by the policy and neo-confucianism, and therefore it plays correspondingly change in the content of Drama. Works which pay attention to reality social life was disappered, but works were everywhere which praise Holy drama and publicize moral codes thought.The second to third chapter are discussed from Holy drama to Nanxi, this creation situation form is based on time and drama species , from the time perspective, drama from the early Ming dynasty writing mainly has continued to NanXi works late ZhuYouDun emerges, however ,Nanxi was after ChengHua, even in xuande period .The second chapter presents the creation of the drama. Through the text, it will choose the works reflect the Ming dynasty the spirit of neo-confucianism, and classify it by the writing time and characteristics in order to sort out a clearer evolution process, namely: at first, it changes the characters of the writers creation in history or literary works to a certain extent so that it can reflect some neo-confucianism, it is the first stage which the neo-confucianism inserted into theatrical creation. ZhuYouDun choose the true story life to make creation ,so the attitude of treating neo-confucianism changed from catering it to moral propaganda.The third chapter was discussed to the creation of the NanXi. And it is differen from drama, in the early Ming dynasty, the creation of the NanXi express a broader range of social life ,and the Confucianism also much richer, it also appeared the works named Remember WuLun perfect which dogmatics diagram the neo-confucianism...