The Yuan Dynasty The Buffoonery Study

Buffoonery is an art form, which inserts the opera performance. It includes not only the funny deeds and expressions, but also the funny languages. The article shows the propagation and change of the funny tradition is connected with the changeable and propagation of the buffoonery in the Yuan Opera. Yuan Dynasty is the peak of Yuan Opera. Of course it is the peak of the buffoonery.The three essential factors include writer, player and audience. We study the buffoonery according to the three factors. Writers were full of the humor sense; they wrote the Yuan Opera living in the power of the MengGu nation. They permeated the morality into the comedy Opera which make them go into a huff. You Ren(优人) You Ling(优伶),it is the player. Although they always regarded as the funny people without the fair treatment in the society, they still had to make a living by selling the happiness, they had never given up the player-advising tradition. They always advised the masters and the emperors in the relaxed atmosphere. Buffoonery offers great heart spaces. It can arouse people to deeply understand the life, then deepens the understanding to the society as far as the possible. At the same time, the understanding can act on the life to be a flavoring. Because different audiences appreciated the Opera with the different demands, it is full of the necessary and the complexity. They have the same aim—entertainment, which makes them together. The attention and imitation of people proved the penetrating of the funny tradition.Originating from the Chinese funny tradition, from the Chinese optimistic mind, the aim of buffoonery is to make use of the art lightness to lighten the life heaviness.