Create New Poetic Imagery

The producers of the new repertoire of Chinese traditional opera have made an earth-shattering innovation on the stage space-time structure since1978, which led to a significant aesthetic achievement—the creation of a large number of new aesthetic imageries in accordance with poetic principles. The five chapters of the thesis, focusing on the comprehensive investigation and systematic summary of the innovation provide a reference for the understanding of its content and meaning. The first chapter traces back to the aesthetic pursuit of the stage space-time structure of Chinese traditional opera and comes to the conclusion that its aesthetic pursuit is to create poetic imagery. The second chapter sorts out the four representations of the stage space-time structure of Chinese traditional opera in regard to its pattern change by examining specific repertoire images since1978and comes to the conclusion that pattern change serves as the technical preparation for the creation of new poetic imagery. The third chapter creatively expounds the four representations of the stage space-time structure of Chinese traditional opera in regard to its functional development and their imagery pattern by examining specific repertoire images since1978and comes to the conclusion that the functional development creates new poetic imagery. The fourth chapter summarizes the causes of the innovation of stage space-time structure of Chinese traditional opera since1978. The fifth chapter summarizes the pros and cons of the innovation of stage space-time structure of Chinese traditional opera since1978.