In Depth Study Of The Lateness Formation Of Chinese Traditional Drama

The lateness formation of drama in China compared with Greece was discussed in this thesis. When did Chinese conditional drama formed, and what are the similarities and differences of the drama evolution between China and Greece, these two basic questions of drama origin were clarified in the first two parts as the first question. We concluded that the formation time of Chinese traditional drama was Song Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty by collecting former opinions. For the second question, we discussed the similarities of basic drama concepts and differences of evolution course between Chinese traditional drama and Hellenic drama. These two conclusions were base points to study concretely in next step. The reasons of Chinese drama formed latter than Hellenic drama were discussed in the last five parts, which were combined with the background of politics, economy and culture in ancient China, as well as literature tradition and the discipline of art evolution. Absolute monarchy, politics system and policy of culture in ancient China were obstacles to drama evolution. Original drama could not complete evolution efficiently due to the hysteresis of economy development in ancient China. The existence of much disadvantages in unique ancient Chinese culture counterworked drama evolution. What is more, one of the most important reasons is that the lateness formation of drama in China was the deficiency of polt in drama evolution, which should be imputed to the weakness of narratives in ancient Chinese literature. Lastly, the highly complicacy of Chinese traditional drama was the internal reason why it completed evolution could not be rapidly.