Ouyang Yuqian And Culture City Of Guilin

It is very thought-provoking that how does intellectual deal with the relationship between nation-state and individual, art and politics in the extraordinary period with internal disorder and foreign invasions. At the special historical time when Guilin is called for cultural city, how does dramatist intellectual Ouyang Yuqian coordinate above relationship to realize his play ideal and social ideal? This is also an interesting question.Ouyang Yuqian is a great rare dramatist of modern China, not only one of founders of Chinese modern drama movement, but also has many achievements on opera, movie, dance. Meanwhile, he is a playwright, director and drama educator, making a tremendous contribution to the birth and development of Chinese play. Ouyang Yuqian pursues and explores dramatic arts hard all his life and gets greatest progress at Guilin. As a result, period when Guilin called cultural city is an important time in Ouyang Yuqian's life.Guilin cultural city is an unique historical and cultural phenomenon in the history of the War of Chinese Resistance against Japan. From October 1938 to September 1944, because of unique geographical position and relatively relaxed political culture atmosphere, the small Guilin town is rapidly developed into a famous cultural city where population increases greatly, writers gather together, cultural establishment such as edition, publication, broadcasting, play, movie and so on flourishes.Ouyang Yuqian has deep connections with the culture city of Guilin. As early as the year 1910 and 1911, Ouyang Yuqian had been Guilin because of his grandfather OuYang ZhongHu who was the official leader of Guilin. At time of China's War of Resistance against Japan, Ouyang Yuqian came to Guilin again without any hesitation because of his patriotic feelings and beautiful memory of Guilin. He lived and struggled in Guilin for totally seven years, participating its prosperity and decline, success and failure, having deep affection to the city. The story of Ouyang Yuqian and culture city of Guilin has been a charming one in the history of Chinese modern play and the culture of China'War Resistance against Japan.Ouyang Yuqian spreads the ideology and art tradition of Chinese modern drama to Guilin through a series of play practice such as reforming Gui opera, directing drama and so on, promoting the development of its construction on ideology and art. Firstly Ouyang Yuqian reformed Gui opera greatly on script writing, stage performances, theatrical troupe constructed, person of ability training, system only attaching important to stars clearing away, changes the cultural environment of Guilin. Secondly, makes drama become more professional and nationalization, applying the play tradition of Chun Liu and realism spirit of may 4th to his drama practice at the right moment. At the same time, play movement of the culture city of Guilin makes Ouyang Yuqian go out the limitation that skill is more important than thought, become a practical play soldier.At Guilin the play practice of Ouyang Yuqian is not only one kind of theatre behavior but also a cultural politics behavior. He takes play as weapon, takes culture as method, positively participates the most important politic of revolting against the Japan Fascism aggression and establishing independent modern nation-state. The realization of cultural politics has intimate relations with relative independence of cultural development and cultural convergence form. There is a new culture consisted of patriotism, democracy and collectivism and a cultural order that differences coexist peacefully, which possesses great value for people on recognizing the function of culture correctly, dealing with relationship between culture and politics appropriately, fostering people's consciousness of cultural politics, establishing principal part of Chinese culture and arousing the national spirit of Chinese under the globalization linguistic environment.