| Historical dramas about the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom emerged one after another during the Anti-Japanese War and became a very conspicuous phenomenon in the literary world.The special social background of wartime needs to remold the national consciousness through the interpretation of history.The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement,as the largest peasant uprising in China's history,has become a powerful carrier for dramatists to place their social ideals.These dramas draw lessons from the past and warn the world with the history,depict the reality in the process of looking back the history,and open a new chapter of the exploration of modern drama nationalization.Based on the period of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom during the Anti-Japanese War as a starting point,the creation of Chinese modern historical play,around the thinking features and aesthetic characteristics of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period,by mining in the 1930 s and 1940 s of the historical materials about the period of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom,reception on performance from the perspective of the overall investigation and individual compare to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period to be sure,to discuss the writing background,significance,technique,the tragic theme of drama and creative gain and loss are analyzed.First chapter is the overall combing the development of modern historical play,clear the war period of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's history of literature significance,analysis on the concepts of nationalism of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period of writing motivation,explore the creation subject and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom historical origin and the influence of wartime special cultural ecology background of creation,bear the war of resistance and democracy of multi-angle interpretation plays dual historical tasks.The second chapter analyzes the theme and meaning of the historical drama of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.Around the Jin Tian Cun,The Death of Li Xiucheng,Tian Guo Chun Qiu,Zhong WangLi Xiucheng,the discussion of nationalism position to play,reflects the political context and class consciousness,and thus summarized its realistic significance:under the background of national liberation and enlightenment of the national political culture in the game and the complex relationship between the KMT and the Communist Party,and leftist dramatists write peasant revolution theme plays when the complex state of mind.The third chapter analyzes the aesthetic characteristics of the historical drama of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in wartime.By comparing Chen baichen's Jin Tian Cun,Da Du He and Yang hansheng's Tian Guo Chun Qiu and Ouyang yuqian's Zhong Wang Li Xiucheng,this paper discusses two different creative tendencies of "historicization of drama" and "historical dramatization".Secondly,it explains the reason why the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom historical drama is keen on the tragic theme.It analyzes the historical and tragic nature of the drama through the entanglement of life and death in the historical tragedy and the collision of emotion and war under the human nature.Finally,the significance of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom historical drama creation is pointed to:by returning to historical themes,it shapes Chinese heroes and reconstructs the historical spiritual power of nationality,with strong national significance.Chapter four discusses the creation gains and losses of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom historical drama.First of all,this paper analyzes the historical reasons for the neglect of the drama,and points out the disadvantages of the drama in aesthetic art:the superficialization of dramatic conflicts and the characterization of the characters.At the same time,combining with the wartime background,it is pointed out that the drama is actually a strategy of cultural redemption in the tragic politics,and then the relationship between literature and politics is deeply considered,and the literary history status of the historical drama of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is objectively reviewed. |
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