The First Tang Comedians Culture And Literature

Generally speaking, funny players were the group of players who carried on funny performance in the ancient times of China ,using many skills such as language , music , dancing, acrobatics , dressing themselves up and so on . They were good at language performance and jocosity . Funny players constituted a very special social group : they were humble, but they could be close to the monarch ; their performances were funny , but they could enlighten the audience and also solve problems . Funny players could give the monarch expostulation in the humorous manner without scruple . Therefore , we can read the sentence that" funny players could play more important roles than the ministers " in "You Yu Ji"which was created by Mr. Ren Bantang . In the developmental flow of Chinese history , "expostulation players " had been encouraging and and reminding themselves with the conscience and responsibility . All sorts of deeds availing the masses and the society demonstrated that the funny players didn't make people happy simply .Focusing on the funny players , firstly , the author analyses the relationship among players , funny players , and expostulation players , and defines funny players clearly . Then, according to the development of history, the author analyses the course of funny players and the different form and skill of their performance in each development stages . The author also researches and demonstrates the common character of funny players in different stages , such as origin , skill, form , language characteristic and so on . The author thinks that the excellent language speciality of the funny players had affected Chinese literature siginificantly : the stories of funny players themselves and the humorous methods used by them had widely affected the inditing of allegories in the Qin dynasty and the form of " funny player novel " in medieval period ; the character of using " enigmatic language " and " humorous language " frequently had affected the origin of poesy ; and the exaggerated performance and language characteristic of the funny players had been the sources of many art forms directly such as the drama , play , comic dialogue and so on .In brief, it was a pity that the historians before ignored the fact that funny players had affected profoundly politics , literature , folkway and so on . The author researches the culture phenomena of funny players generally in longitudinal and transverse ways , and demonstrates with emphasis the relationship between funny players and literature . The author sets himself a goal which is hard to attain , for this reason , he has been striving for further progress .