Early Integration Of The Old Drama Of The Reform And Ideological Interpretation

This paper is to study the transformation of the traditional drama in the early stage of China from the angle of content integration and ideology interpretations and explain the original force of the transformation and the value trend in the development of traditional drama . The transformation from 1949 to 1957 was the procession in which the traditional drama reconstructed themselves and sought coincidence for survival, which was suffering from the national ideology and waning . It cleared up the resistance of the traditional drama to the political compression successively .On the one hand ,it maintained and catered for the intimate relationship between the Chinese traditional drama with long history and the folk interest ;On the other hand ,it was out of the substitution of the political control and manipulation for the traditional self-discipline which was inevitable trend of the class society undergoing modernization and the natural original force that rooted in the native life style .It is this original force that the modern transformation of the traditional drama under the supervision and restriction of the strict ideology . The alternate effect of the influence of both politics and literature resulted in the extremely strong function of "Literature as the Servant of Politics".The decline of the aesthetic function and the intensification of the political function pushed the traditional drama to the center of politics and the edge of literature . Though the transformation of the traditional drama had the initiative right of guiding and changing the traditional drama ,and the content and form undertaken by the traditional aesthetic consciousness had the similar characteristic of the modernization in the society , the interpretation of the typical writings showed the transformation is not the simple naturalization of the national ideology , but the intellectual exploring of bringing the literature into the politics while maintaining the aesthetic function , the political movement of the rational transformation of the traditional drama under the government will , founding the legitimation and seeking the social respondent , and the systematic project that "tradition" and "ration" conflicted inevitably and merged in the end to form an vigorous new tradition.