"Four Great Southern Drama" And Song And Yuan Social Life

Opera as a literary art form closest to the social life of the people, which has a close relationship with social customs. Social life and customs have great significance on drama production, development, script structure, the ideological content an, artistic style and the characters of Opera works. Opera also helped save a number of social customs, and performance social life and customs based on their specific ways.The South Opera produced in Wenzhou area in the middle of the Northern Song dynasty,is the first mature Opera in the history of Chinese opera forms, Preserved repertoire of The South Opera is not so much, The Jingchaiji,Baituji,Baiyueting and Shagouji are called Four Great Southern Drama, were the typical repertoire of South Opera on Song and Yuan, Four Great Southern Opera is not only have high artistic value, but also reflects the rich culture and the diversity of life.In contemporary scholarship, the Four Great Southern Opera studies are many, but mostly focused on the author’s version, themes, characters, and so on. This article attempts to combined the Four Great Southern Opera with the prevailing social custom in Song and Yuan.The writing is divided into two plates included five chapters, the first four chapters are based on the Four Great Southern Opera script,the chapter one is " Jingchaiji and social etiquette", the chapter two is "Baituji and folk religion", the chapter three is "Baiyueting and female social life", The chapter four is " Shagouji and social ethics", a chapter basic on one Opera script, excavated the main social customs in the Opera script. The last chapter is a mutual study combined the Four Great Southern Drama with social life, explain Four Great Southern Opera is artistic rendering the social life and customs.,explore the reflects of the social life Convention in the Four Great Southern Opera as a carrier of the stagecraft, as well as the social customs in the "four great opera" role. Meanwhile, hopes for the inheritance and development of Chinese traditional culture and customs, give the author’s modest means.