The Study Of Opera Elements In "Awakening The World Marriage Biography"

Marriages to Awaken Common People describes a story of marriage cause and effect between two generations.It is also another representative novel of the world which centers on marriage and family and reflects social life extensively after Jin Ping Mei.There are a lot of descriptions about opera elements in the novel.These elements are not only integrated with the artistic needs of the novel,but also have important historical and folk values.At the same time,they are of great significance to the study of the development of popular literature in the mid-Ming Dynasty.This paper mainly studies the opera elements in Marriages to Awaken Common People,which include opera performances,vocal operas,class clubs of actors,customs,forms of theatre,etc.This paper will be divided into three parts:Chapter 1focuses on the study of the operas involved in Marriages to Awaken Common People.Before studying the opera repertoire,we must have a general understanding of the quotation of various opera elements in the novel.On this basis,operas are divided into The poetic drama in Yuan and Ming dynasty,The Southern Opera in the Song and Yuan Dynasties and Chuanqi in the Ming dynasty secondly,the characteristics of these operas and their narrative functions in the text are analyzed;finally,through the elaboration,textual research and collation of the historical materials of operas in the novel,in order to enrich and improve the study of opera elements in the novels of Ming and Qing Dynasties.Chapter 2 focuses on the study of opera performance in Marriages to Awaken Common People Firstly,the opera performances involved are divided into three categories according to the different performance scenes: one is the common folk reward performances;the other is the performance on festive occasions;the third is the banquet and communication performances.Through the study of classification,we can understand the social fashions and customs at that time.On this basis,we can deeply analyze the characteristics of these performances and the role they played in the text.Chapter 3 is about the study of the image of excellent actors in Marriages to Awaken common people."Marriage of Awakening the World" is known as "a sketch of an era".The author describes with broad brushwork from the late Ming Dynasty to the early Qing Dynasty,from Royal relatives and nobles to eunuchs and officials,to traffickers and pawns,monks and nuns,and Taoists,with eyes covering all corners of society.The novel also portrays several outstanding actors with different personalities.They are inferior and arrogant,can not escape the tragedy of fate and have vivid vitality.They are worthy of attention in the character Gallery of ancient the novels about human relationship.The last part is to classify the performances of traditional opera and folk opera in the novel.Although these performances do not belong to the category of traditional opera performances,they also have their performances and entertainment nature,so they have their unique research value.