On The Shanghai Opera Realism Creative Tradition

There are hundreds of traditional opera in China, Hu Oprea is one of them. The development process of Hu Opera includes"Hua Gu","Ben Tan","Shen Qu"and"Hu Opera"phases. There must be some reasons for it can be survived in the competition and be the name card of Shanghai. I think, in the final analysis, the most important reason is that Hu Opera use the realism creation method. It contains playwriting, directing, performing and so on.This paper taking"realism"as the breakthrough point, combs the history of Hu Opera, studies the relation betweent Hu Opera and the realism with several cases. And it will explore how to inherite and develope the realism creation mothed for Hu Opera from now on.