Temple Temples Make A Play, Crying And Laughing

Religion,especially Buddhism and Taoism,had a profound influence on Chinese literature in all ages.The development of Chinese literature into the Yuan dynasty produced a new form,and the Yuan Qu should be born at times.And as an important symbol of Yuan Qu,Yuan drama can hardly do without the infiltration and hit of Buddhism and Taoism,through the whole YuanQuXuan and outside YuanQuXuan plait,the inside of the drama is more or less with the era of religious superstition color.Yuan dynasty peculiar relaxed religious atmosphere,makes the folk belief diversified.Because the ruler,as well as the upper nobility worship Buddhism especially the respect ffor Tibetan Buddhism and treat Taoism especially Quanzhen Sect politely,There is a policy binding and spiritual guidance to the underclass.Under the double action,the religious environment of the whole society of Yuan dynasty is self-evident.Meanwhile,as a mixed grassland nationality,Yuan dynasty practiced the strict system of rejecting the Han people at the beginning of founding a state.The entire ethnic Han literati group is not in a position to meet the needs of the country,so It is natural that they wish the truest bailment in Buddhism and Taoism.Then the religious meaning of literature comes out slowly.This paper focusing on analysis of temples and monasteries occurred scenes in Yuan drama(mainly including temple,monastery,shrine and nunnery),collecting summary classification of scenes involved,makes the reader hold the sensing;After that,we analyze the scenes from the subject matter and the function type of works.These temples,monasteries,shrines,and nunneries are subordinate to Dutuo drama,the fairytale drama,Fubao drama,Gongan drama love drama etc,which reflect a certain degree of the world of the author's era.In the matter of function,some temples and monasteries only play the function of folk belief;others provide ordinary people the places of folk custom where people can burn incense and worship Buddha,blessing,temple city,depositing the schoolroom;or by its unique folk culture symbol they bring a happy ending for works,including separated couples reuniting in temples,wrongs being the truth in the temple,and so on;others are the abbeys of protagonists,their existence is to promote the doctrine of Buddhism andTaoism,giving psychological comfort to suffering masses;young men and women who love each other meet their marriage in the others,so as the opposite of the feudal ethics,the temples and monasteries is supposed to be ascetic,they attempt to break the bound free of the wall,against the feudal ethical code obviously.It is no accident that the temple,monastery,shrine and nunnery exist.By grasping the depth of the work to discuss the author's intention,weknow that authors hidden behind the works allow the readers to obtain their inner emotion and feeling in the form of a subjective manipulation rather than assumption--the affected home state consciousness,the dignity of a crushed scholar,the muzzled career future;Confucianism that they have been accepted since childhood is incompatible with the time they live,they doubt,defense,struggle,surrender,reclusion,only throw themselves into religion to show their grief eventually.These literati feelings have been shown in the past dynasties,just as the temples and monasteries scenes was inherited in the previous works and developed in the posterity works.In the end,these temple and monasteries scenes become the unique positioning of Chinese literary history.