Study On The Spread Of "Linchuan Four Dreams"

"Linchuan Four Dreams" also known as "Linchuan Four Dreams",include The Purple Harpin,The Peony Pavilion,The Handan Dream and A dream under the south bough,created by Tang Xianzu,a great Ming Dynasty playwright.As the four legendary works by Tang Xianzu,"Linchuan Four Dreams" represent the artistic achievements of Tang in drama composition,while illustrating his thinking of reality from different perspectives."Linchuan Four Dreams" as a bright pearl in the history of Chinese opera and Chinese opera study,have a high value of research regarding desk literature and stage performance.Comparing to other forms of literature arts,"Linchuan Four Dreams" as theatre arts,face the audiences as well as readers.So,the immediacy and intuitiveness in the process of dissemination are prominent.Throughout the history of the development and research of it,the varieties in spreading medias,social backgrounds and academic theories led to different features in transmitting texts,performance situations,criticisms and studies.The time frame of this study is Ming and Qing Dynasty,Republic of China and modern era.The focus is the dissemination of "Linchuan Four Dreams",with communication as visual angle of investigation.This paper tried to sort out and summarize the spreading history and research status of "Linchuan Four Dreams".Specifically,from the aspects of the transmission of text,stage performance,criticism and research,investigate the propagation situations of "Linchuan Four Dreams" in different historical backgrounds.Ancient traditional printing method to the text spread of "Linchuan Four Dreams" in the Ming and Qing Dynasties popular,also came into Japan,carried out the initial exchange of culture.With the development of modern media,as well as the scholars of the Republic of China collected and collated theopera of Ming and Qing dynasties,expanded the text spread of it,Republic of China is to expand the scope of the spread of overseas,more strengthened cultural exchanges.To the present,The spread of opera literature in the direction of diversification,new media gradually occupy the spread of the market,the communication space is bigger,the text spreads of "Linchuan Four Dreams" tend to be gradually internationalized.The stage performance makes the vitality of the opera more fresh."Linchuan Four Dreams" since its inception has been very popular,but because of the theme of Peony Pavilion has more audience,the song is more beautiful,people who is good at the female role is relatively more,so the performance of Peony Pavilion is more popular.But with the decline of Kunqu Opera,"Linchuan Four Dreams" in the Republic of China stage is not good before the spread,even so,with the insistence of opera artists,it is still active in the Republic of newspaper advertising and the major places of performance,so "Linchuan Four Dreams" to enjoy greater development in the contemporary space.Its stage performance is not only more diversified in the form and way of communication,stage practice is also more enriched,it become a shining pearl on the world stage."Linchuan Four Dreams" not only have good text and stage performances,in the field of literary criticism and research is also the main object of concern.Ming and Qing Dynasties,especially late Ming period,the literary commentary is very prosperous.The "love" of it to promote,maked a large number of female critics to join it.The spread of women in the audience is to become a rare literary phenomenon.With the collapse of feudal thought,and the influence of Western thought,the study of opera in the Republic of China has been paid more and more attention.The Characteristics of the Theory of Drama and the View of Research,is the combination of Chinese and Western,from traditional to modern change.It is also because of this inclusive environment,in the contemporary,"Linchuan Four Dreams" research fieldhas been widening,domestic research and foreign research are very prosperous.Of course,both the text spread,stage communication,or criticism,research class communication of "Linchuan Four Dreams",they are independent of each other and interact with each other,they all promote the "Linchuan Four Dreams" of the spread,one can not be less.Apart from this,in the process of analysis,the " Four Dreams" are considered as a whole as well as individuals.This paper not only investigated the propagation situations of it,but also tried to come out with the main characteristics and its causes through a series of dissemination phenomena,in the hope of being beneficial to relevant studies on it.