The Study Of Historical Drama In Yuan And Ming And Qing Dynasties

This article takes historical drama in Yuan and Ming and Qing Dynasties for study with the entry points of time factors and cultural trends, analyazing the substance and the relationship between reality and fiction of historical drama.Then it sums up historical drama's character and evolution law in all times in order to provide reference for contemporary historical drama.The whole text is constituted by the following five chapters.The first chapter is the feeling historical drama period from the early Yuan to Yanyou of Yuan Dynasty,focusing on it's social background and substance.The first section elaborates the influence on historical drama caused by the society of Yuan Dynasty.The second section discusses the substance of recalling heroes and expressing heroism,which is full of the national healthy trends and criticism of the crafty spycophant.The third section discusses the substance of indignant feeling and the sigh of a nation's rise and fall.The second chapter is the civilizing historical drama period from Yanyou of Yuan Dynasty to the early Wanli of Ming Dynasty,focusing on it's social background and substance.The first section elaborates the influence on historical drama caused by the society of this period.The second section discusses the civilizing substance.Then elaborates the different characteristics of each period.The third chapter is the critical historical drama period from Wanli of Ming Dynasty to Shunzhi of Qing Dynasty.The political change between Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty and rise of pragmatic lead the development of critical hietorical drama.The first section elaborates the influence on historical drama caused by the society of this period.The second section elaborates heroic historical drama contain criticism meaning.The main theme is faithfullness struggle which under the ethical and political criticism.The third section elaborates current events drama in the background of the political change.Its high faithfullness struggle and strong sense of critism become an event in historical drama.The fourth chapter is the rethinking historical drama period from Shunzhi to Kangxi of Qing Dynasty.The first section elaborates the influence on historical drama caused by the society of this period.The second section takes Wu Weiye's historical drama for examlpe, focusing on the nostalgia drama. The third section elaborates the peak of rethinking historical drama:Immortal Palace and Peach Blossom Fan,focusing on the three aspects of their performance:sense of loss from a nation's rise and fall,sense of disillusionment from life, reflections on the orthodox Confucianism.The fifth chapter elaborates the relationship between reality and fiction of historical drama.It is showing a gradual process of development.The first section elaborates the period of fiction.Writer's historical consciousness was not strong,and often stressed the historical truth behind the subjective feelings.The second section elaborates the period of reality.Historical drama is more and more emphasis the historical truth.Conclusion:The substance of histrocal drama experienced feeling to civilizing to critical then to rethinking,at the same time it is more and more emphasis the historical truth.The study of historical drama provides reference for contemporary historical drama.