Research On The Origin Of Liu Ruan Yuxian's Story

The story of Liu Chen and Ruan Zhao meeting Fairies in Tiantai Mountain first appeared in youminglu · Liu Chen Ruan Zhao written by Liu Yiqing of Southern Song Dynasty.There are similar stories about Liu Ruan meeting Fairies in some fairy biographies of Han,Wei and Jin Dynasties.In Tang and Song Dynasties,Liu Ruan meeting fairies was used as an allusion.In yuan,Ming and Qing Dynasties,Liu Ruan's story was interpreted as a piece of music by dramatists With the continuous writing of the guest,the legend of Liu Ruan has gone beyond the original connotation of the story and expanded a broader literary space.Among the Yuan Dramas,there are Ma Zhiyuan's Jin Liu Ruan straying into Taoyuan,Wang Yuanheng's Taoyuan cave and Chen BOJIANG's Jin Liu Ruan straying into Taoyuan.In the Ming Dynasty,Prince Yi's four fold Zaju Liu Chen and Ruan Zhao's miscarriage into Taoyuan is a typical work of the story of Liu Ruan's encounter with a fairy.In Wanli,there is Yang zhijiong's one fold Zaju Tiantai adventure.Among the legendary operas of the Ming and Qing Dynasties,there is Chang Sheng le by Zhang Yun of the Qing Dynasty.In addition,there are some works about Liu Ruan's encounter with immortals in Zidishu of Qing Dynasty and modern opera.In the process of spreading,the story of Liu Ruan gradually confluenced with Tao Yuanming's "Peach Blossom Land",and "peach paradise Wonderland" became the fixed background of later Liu Ruan's story,because of the similarity between the story of Peach Blossom Land and the story of Liu Chen Ruan Zhao.The emergence of Liu Ruan's stories is accompanied by the spread of Taoist ideas,and there is also the infiltration of Taoist ideas in later Liu Ruan's stories.To explore the Taoist ideas in Liu Ruan's stories in various periods is helpful to deeply explore the literati's mentality and writer's environment.At present,the academic research on the subject of Liu Ruan's encounter with immortals is still fragmentary and scattered,lacking a comprehensive and systematic study from the source and flow.Through the overall study of the story of Liu Ruan encountering immortals,it is not only helpful to make an overall perspective of the origin and evolution of the story,but also helpful to make an in-depth discussion of the literary ecology of Ming and Qing opera,which is beneficial to the systematic study and case excavation of the subject matter.