On The Creation Of Historical Plays About The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom During The War Of Resistance Against Japan

The Anti-Japanese War period was a special historical period, the Japanese imperialists oppressed our fellowmen cruelly on my vast land of China,and the Kuomintang puts dictatorship ruling into practice at home , pursues capitulation policy at outside, the Chinese people was in the misery soup. The chronicle play of Taiping rebellion developed in a such background. The history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom fits the national conditions of China on that time ,so there are many writers chooses the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom as a theme to express theirs dissatisfaction .This is a worth studying phenomenon.This paper study the chronicle play of the Taiping Heavenly Kindom during the War of Resistance against Japan mainly from four areas. First of all, the first chapter analyses the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom how to converted into theatre stage in the historical drama performances, but also discusses the play of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the history of the expression of certain political tendencies.Secondly, the chronicle plays of the Taiping Heavenly Kindom during the War of Resistance against Japan belongs to the tragedy judging by drama type. Comparing with Chinese tradition history tragedy, there is a similar in the historical background, but the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom have some characters that traditional tragedy haven't. For example: It emphasizes that the tragic hero is patriotic for the people side; the tragic person has especially obvious consciousness to struggle with the tragedy destiny ; The dramatist also begins to pay attention to describe the inner conflict and the display of people power. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom historical drama is a tragedy, it without injury ,from the sad but expanding, and still gives hope.The third chapter seeks to analyse the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom historical drama from a macro point of view .Pointing out that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom historical play is an important transition ring in peasant war narrative pattern from ancient times to modern times.Finally, this paper discuss the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom historical drama's fate in the nowadays, pointing out its out of fashion caused by artistic and historical reasons .hoping that can use for reference to the next historical drama creation.