On Chinese Traditional Opera And Cao Yu’ Drama Creation

As a westernized form of literature in China, a priori and foreign culture are closely linked, how such aforeign art form and traditional organic union, make on the earth of China to take root, in the drama historyleft many playwrights explore footsteps, and Cao Yu the drama really realize the nationalization ofsuccessful exploration of Chinese drama, Cao Yu’s drama really realize the nationalization of Chinesedrama in the successful exploration. Although Cao Yu’s drama creation is obviously influenced by westerndramatic effects, but their works in the veins of melted from the Chinese traditional opera is still comedown in one continuous line from the national aesthetic tradition and aesthetic spirit. It is Chinesetraditional opera nutrient nourishment, and beyond to cultural muster, Cao Yu drama realization ofnationalization, popular, continued long artistic vitality. He is deeply rooted in the Chinese traditional art ofsoil to carry out artistic practice, to us today’s drama still has important inspiration and significance toexplore:Drama creation only traditional and modern, East and West together, could possibly develop dramanationalization, personalized and modernization. This paper focuses on Chinese traditional opera to CaoYu’s influence, try from Cao Yu drama theme mode settings, characters, plot structure arrangement andconstruction of poetic style of the formation of these four aspects.The text is divided into four parts. The first part discusses Cao Yu drama and traditional operainheritance stability themes are closely linked to the theme of love and revenge theme, on traditional operatheme pattern contains the esthetic cultural psychology accurately, so that in Cao Yu’s life value and moralconcern has high mutual tolerance. The second part mainly discusses Cao Yu in the drama of male image,female image and the clown image, these figures behind the accumulation of traditional Chinese operacharacters image pattern, and into their own emotional experience. The third part mainly analyzes Cao Yuplays the legendary plot and traditional opera art structure structure. The fourth part from the artisticconception structure, poetic language to explore two aspects of Cao Yu’s plays inheriting Chinesetraditional opera poetic spirit.