On Meng Chengshun's Early Drama Creation And Theoretical Propositions

Meng Chengshun was a famous dramatist theorist in the 17 th century Chinese drama.After Tang Xianzu,he made remarkable achievements in drama creation and drama theory,which had a positive impact on later drama creation and drama theory.Meng Chengshun mainly focused on the creation of Zaju in the early stage,and later turned to legendary creation.The creative ideas conveyed by Meng Chengshun's Zaju play an important position in the history of Chinese opera and thought.This article summarizes and arranges Meng Chengshun's early creation theories and ideas from his life,making friends,drama creation and comments on operas,aiming to dig Meng Chengshun's achievements and value in drama creation,and summarizes Meng Chengshun's outstanding contributions to the development of drama as an excellent dramatist in the late Ming Dynasty.The first part of the article summarizes Meng Chengshun's life experience,early creation of Zaju and other related content,and strives to deeply study and analyze Meng Chengshun's Zaju's creation and theoretical basis.The second part explores Meng Chengshun's pursuit and eulogization of the most affection,and analyzes his sentimental creation concept with emotion interpretation through his Zaju.The third part is mainly to explore the character theory by studying the character images created Meng Chengshun's Zaju.The fourth part mainly starts from the two aspects of Quci and Binbai,and discusses the elegant and popular issues of Meng Chengshun's drama language refinement.The fifth part mainly focuses on the research on the creative style of Meng Chengshun's Zaju,including the study of his drama creation and evaluation style of drama in addition to his unique study of "scent theory".In terms of thinking,Meng Chengshun inherited Tang Xianzu's concept of drama creation,which affirmed the "most affection",affirmed the beautiful love between men and women and attacked the dark feudal forces.As for Quci and Binbai,Meng Chengshun demonstrated his extraordinary talents to control the language of opera.He emphasized that when creating drama characters,playwrights should focus on the description of the psychology of the characters,and actively search for creative prototypes from life.Meng Chengshun shaped multitudinous drama characters alike in both appearance and presence,which has made outstanding contributions to thediversified development of classic opera characters.Meng Chengshun's opera theory is rich in humanistic thoughts and demonstrates a unique theoretical viewpoint,which promoted the progress of ancient Chinese opera theory.