Folk Musician In The Popular Fictions Of Ming And Qing Dynasties

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties novels include "Historicalnovels",”Hero-Legendnovels","The world situation novels","Supernaturalevil-spirit novels","Detective novels"etc. There are many popular novelsof script for story-telling is through the collation, written literature andbecome from oral literature, Such as"Romance of the Three Kingdoms ","Outlaws of the marsh","Three heroes and five gallants ","San Yan Er Pai".These written literature have also returned to the oral talking andsinging, for the popular novels, more or less to keep some legacy ofquality of music literature. There are some popular novels are mostly onthe social situation the world description, such as "Travel notes byLaocan "," Nie Hai Hua "," Dream of the Red Chamber",besides thesehistory books, not deliberately written in order to preserve some historicaldata, but unintentionally retained or reflect if dry materials, no to keep orreflect the fact, may at all kinds of books records also. Chinese music art since the Song Dynasty, changed music form, fromthe "Kabuki Music Era " gradually into"Opera Music Era", the realpopular music has produced. This paper mainly about the folk musicperson records popular novels of Ming and Qing Dynasty as the object,these records and devoted to the study of Ming and Qing Dynasties musicactivities were compared, combined, to the Ming and Qing Dynasties folkmusic sources, composition, social status, art practice and so on, thus toform the understanding of "Drama Music Era" of public art andmorphologicalcharacteristics.Folk music is active in the folk, specializing in the art of musicperformance of single individuals or groups. This paper is based on folkmusic man-made objects description or description of popular novels ofMing and Qing Dynasty, the folk music of the music art practice, livingconditions and so on, understanding and research to make. The text isdivided into four parts:The first part:Discuss the sources of human folk music of the Mingand Qing dynasties. By referring to the popular novels of Ming and QingDynasties of folk music the related description, and refer to the Ming andQing Dynasties literati novels, roughly from human folk music in theMing and Qing Dynasties, divided into several categories, namely: familyinto the " Liyuan family "; from the music households register children; itinerant entertainer;lose"benefactor"occupation artist;semi-agricultural arts of poor farmers and civil idle vagrants.The second part:Analysis of folk musician’s art practice descriptionin the popular novels of Ming and Qing Dynasties, mainly includes thefolk music organization, common venues and the main content of theperformance. This period " popular music " popular, marking the ancientChinese music development in the Ming and Qing Dynasties has entereda "play music " era heyday. At the same time, folk musician practice artseries, from another point of view is more realistically reflect the situationof social economic development, city of the Ming and Qing Dynasties,for people to better understand the society are of great help.The third part:The survival status of popular novels of Ming andQing Dynasties description to the folk music person, a true reflection ofthe status of this group in the society at that time. In the popular novelsrelated description of music can be considered reproducing social reality.Writing in his creation, but also to the music performance script finishing.And finish these works need music people to put onto the stage, need forthe spread of music, so the scholars on music psychology modality iscomplex, contradictory. From the novels of the Ming and Qing Dynastiesto music records, literati hand down on folk music person, on the otherhand, grateful psychology of folk music, the complex psychological, isthe feudal society for a long time music oppressed the formation of thinking. Given the circumstances, scholars and people in the creation ofharmonious combination is unprecedented, literati and complement eachother in the art of cooperation is hitherto unknown.The fourth part:Discuss the folk musician art practice of popularnovels of Ming and Qing Dynasties and the social influence at that time.The majority of folk music is by learning to recite some unofficialhistories in the performing arts, their artistic practice in the spread ofpopular fiction as well as some of the popular novels in Ming and QingDynasties especially the legendary hero generation, have played apromoting role. At the same time, they as a civilian art practitioners,effectively promoted the art exchange between city and countryside,expanding the " popular music " stage.The fifth part:Conclusion. Folk musician as a civilian artpractitioners, their artistic practice, on one hand, will promote thetransmission of the art, on the other hand, in the process of continuousperformance communication, hold, absorb all characteristic, produce newmusic art form, is of great historical and practical significance of theChinese"series during the period of the formation of song music".