A Discussion On Ming Dynasty Opera Illustration

The Ming dynasty is the peak in the history of the development ofChinese opera illustrations.With the development of the secular culture andimprovement of printing craft, illustration also reached a very high artistic level, operaillustrations entered the golden age.On Ming drama, it has a lot of these areas for theprevious content and stage art of drama literature, however, it has relatively littleresearch in the drama illustrations,.In the aspect of characters, Ming dynasty opera illustration through externalimage engraved paint and internal psychological trace, facial expression, posture,movement form the shape of the opera characters.In the plot structure, Illustrators choose opera performance content and highlightthe main plot of the drama conflict, the picture is at swords’ points, It focuses on thenarrative.In terms of theme expression, Opera illustrations paintings is built around operatitle,we can understand the drama theme by illustrations.In the aspect of motif,It appears the same plot unit in the illustrations, such as"farewell" such as "war""old" scene, forming a motif. Usually consists of a motif willlink up more child motif, such as under the "beauties" of this motif, it will link thematchmaking "girl""parent block""fairy power" DengZi motif.In the artistic conception of the scene, illustrators chose to describe the artisticconception of landscape environment and dreams, and integrated into the feelings ofthe characters,"feeling" and "scene"Common produce artistic conception.In the aspect of social and cultural life, We can see the bedroom of Ming dynastyarchitecture, costumes, and social customs.we can control as well as social andcultural life by the Ming dynasty opera illustrations.After entering in the Ming dynasty, drama illustration art development to goldstage, whether it’s quantity, and quality has a great leap forward, the characteristics ofhorizontal and vertical analysis inductive opera illustrations,.To study the relationshipbetween literature and illustrations can to reflect on social and cultural life of Mingdynasty by studying the illustrations, thus it has a wide range of literature value andsocial significance.