Yao Hua Song Of Thought

As a learned person of that generation in the China ancient capital, Yao Hua'sachievement is very rich. As the fact of the drama, Yao, with Wang Guo_wei and Wu Mei,was regarded as one of the greatest three masters in Chinese drama theory research andlots of extremely precious dramas theories material to the latter generations. Especially,based on his profound knowledge and his unique angle of view, he has made theremarkable contribution for the modern drama theory development.Yao Hua's drama thought is very rich and has its own complex order and logic. Asthe matter of the origin of the drama, Yao Hua proposed a theory that the drama and thepoem-ci have the same origin and based on this, he investigated the relation betweendrama's style and geographical location. Seeing that one time has one time's literature,he insisted that the drama creating must come along with the time. On drama's essence,Yao Hna held two of the drama's essential factors, emotion and matter, and their tie,truth. Besed this, he investigated the drama's theory of reality and imaginativeness. Asthe matter of the drama's style, Yao Hna had also his own unique opinion and he statedsystematically his drama opinion under big literature vision, his elegant drama opinionof philistine and finally he stated the reality value of the drama.Beyond doubt, besides unique theory values, there also were some long-standingmisunderstandings in Yao Hun's drama thoughts. But all this can not write off Yao'splace in Modern times Chinese drama history.