Study Of Zuo Huang And His Opera

This paper discuss Zuo Huang and his opera as for the research object.,discloses his artistic achievements on dramas,expiores his contribution and position in the drama world around middle and late periods in Qing dynasty and discusses major performances of the times during which the influence of romance decreases.The paper is divided into for five chaptes.The first one mainly explores the lifetime,family background and famous works of Zuo Huang.The author conjectures the approximate detail time of Zuo Huang on the basis of the past research introduces his experiences throughout his life in order to reveal true life of Zuo Huang.He was the greatest dramatist in middle and late Qing Dynasty,his opera creation were both suitable for reading and for being transformed into performance.There are two characteristics of the opera creation in this period.With further development of traditional Chinese opera during the years of Emperor Qianlong,chuangqi(the legendary short story)became short than before while its performance effects onstage was intensified.At the same time,chuangqi,in the hands of literati,emphasize much on the emotional expression.However,the ideological content and artistic creation methods of the Chinese opera in this period tend to be unified.Zuo Huang's dramas are of great value,his chastity drama "Lan Guixian Legends" reflects the main features of this type of play at that time.And his autobiographical drama "Osmanthus Tower",was improved on the basis of the continuation of previous stories mode,but also has a distinctive characteristics of the times.In addition to drama creation,he has other writings are also very famous,such as "Rui Zhitang Collection","four kinds of leisure" and so on.Exploration on Zuo Huang and his drama creation,not only can dig the Chinese opera research depth,can also contribute to the profound cultural research of Tongcheng.