About Mulian Mother’s Image Evolution And Cultural Interpretation

Mahamaudgalynyana Drama was regarded as “the living fossil of ChineseTheater”. It refers to the drama which protagonist is Mahamaudgalynyana, a characterof Indian Buddhist legends, and which main content of his rescue mother.The story originates in “The Buddha Speaks: The Ullambana Sutra” with a thinplot. Due to the main theme was filial to parents who were welcomed by Chinesepeople, it was developed sufficiently. The story was fixed in Tang Dynasty andincrease developed in Ming and Qing Dynasty.Based on this, the image of Mahamaudgalynyana’s mother was changedpersistently. With the constant attention of artists and the continuous rewriting ofwriters in the past dynasties, the image of deeply sinful mother evoked a richimagination and plenty of inspiration of artists and writers in different times. Throughthe reconstruction of characters from the flat to full image, varied from convicted tothe acquittal story, the changing of the subject line of karma to persuading filial piety,this complex unity image of the sinful mother has been localized to accept thetransformation of the aesthetic. Chinese folk art has a distinctive is the concept ofgood and evil, in the shape of characters on the so-called" public loyalty are carvedwith appearance, evil and ugly appearance ", appraise and obviously.Maudgalyayana’s mother from the first being on a" sin deep root knot" hat, except thefour words is what counts, wherein no traces of sin, this story of Mu Lian saving hismother in the later evolution of text creation leaving enough creativity andimagination of space, according to the rule of the need, reality is reasonable, theaudience feel guilt, allowing no explanation for this mother cook up charges, to helpher stay off exit.The innovation of this paper lies in through circumstantial back stepping Mulianmother archetype and original sin. And fasten each period for subtle changes, cultural,economic, religious and cultural interpretation of audience attitude angle and artcontemplation. The image of “sinful mother’ on the reconstruction of the story about his thousands of years of evolution, proved the madam Qingti (Liu) this figure is thelocalization of Buddhism in China, the secularization of the historical process of atypical epitome.