The Research On Narrativity Of “twisted” Reunion Ending Of Chinese Drama In Song And Yuan Dynasty

The end of the reunion has always been concerned.In Song and Yuan Dynasties,the endings of the reunions of opera works had been formed,which had a profound influence on the narrative mode of later opera works.In recent years,many researchers have studied the endings of the reunions of traditional Chinese opera by classification method.They generally believe that there is a kind of ending in classical Chinese opera that is "distorted","rigid","compromise",or "formulaic",which is harmful to the character image,doesn’t conform to the logic of plot development,and is the performance of the playwright’s limited thinking.We will discuss this kind of controversial ending which is called "twisted" end of reunion.Based on the social background of Song and Yuan Dynasties and the tendency of playwright’s creation,this paper makes a deep analysis of these "twisted" ending plays,and finds that the endings of these plays have their rationalities,which are not the forced reunion,but the playwright’s intention according to the character,plot development and theme of the play.The ending of "the poor daughter remarried Zhang Xie" in "the champion of Zhang Xie" is to reveal the social phenomenon of "catching the son-in-law under the list,regardless of human character",to satirize the reality of marriage of "the poor daughter is difficult to marry" and "the Jinshi married on wealth",and also to reflect the marriage concept of "marriage predestined by nature" at that time.At the end of Xiaoxiangyu,Mr.Cui and Miss.Zhang reunited and Miss.Zhao was punished,which reflected the corruption of officials,the difficulty of women’s marriage and the lowliness of scholar’s status in the Yuan Dynasty.In Qiuhu play with wife,Mei Ying’s marriage is regarded as the conclusion,which shows the difficulty of women’s self-reliance,and embodies Shi Junbao’s defense of Confucian official marriage.The end of the reunion of father and son in Qujiangchi reflects the playwright’s thinking of "father is the principle of son" in traditional ethics and his return to Confucianism.Yanyan’s becoming a little lady at the end of Tiaofengyue reflects Guan Hanqing’s affirmation of the maidservant’s freedom from servitude and personal dignity.At the end of the golden thread pool,Mr.Han and Miss Du ’s reunion shows the difficulty of realizing love under the double oppression of the government and the procuress.There are two reasons for the misreading of "twisted" reunion ending in academic circles:one is the complexity of the model and the theme of the ending language of this kind of drama;the other is that many researchers take western tragedy theory as the evaluation standard of the ending quality of the drama.Behind the misreading phenomenon of the "twisted" reunion ending,it reflects the relative lag of the narrative research of Chinese opera.Through the reinterpretation of "twisted" reunion ending,I hope it will be helpful to the research of opera works and the construction of the narrative theory of Chinese opera.