A Study Of Temple Sceneries In Ming Legends

In the legends of Ming Dynasty,temple scenes often became an important place for playwrights to elaborate stories,which was mainly due to the development of religion in Ming Dynasty,the versatility of temples and writers' creation needs.The rulers of The Ming Dynasty established a loose and inclusive official religious policy,and there were a large number of temples.The temple economy was relatively developed,which provided a foundation for the holding of folk temple fairs,and the temple culture showed the characteristics of diversity and prosperity.In addition,the secularization of religion in Ming Dynasty was remarkable,and people's religious belief tended to be utilitarian,so the relationship between people and religion became increasingly close.New changes in the field of ideology and culture will also influence the literary creation,playwright,influenced by the thoughts of the "main feeling" culture,advocating the pursuit of individuality liberation,affirming the rationality of lust,so has the versatility of temples scene into the writer's creative vision,mainly as a blessing,practice vows,avoided the night recreation and sightseeing.The arrangement of temple scenes plays an important role in shaping the characters' images.With the help of temple images and daily descriptions of the characters,the playwright carefully depicts the appearance,conduct,temperament and psychology of the characters.The play often foiled the character with images such as "lotus" and "lotus",praised the woman's appearance and temperament with goddess images such as "Guanyin" and "Chang 'e",and set off the temple's restless mood with sound images such as "bell" and "piano sound".The playwright is also good at using the actions of the characters in the temple to highlight the character's image characteristics,to reveal the taste of the characters by the elegant life in the temple,to express the character by the simple life in the temple,and to contrast the psychology of the characters by the pure life in the temple.In addition,temple scenes also play an important role in the plot construction of Ming legend,some of which only appear as the background of the story,while others are important places for the development of the story,which is of great significance to the setting of coincidences and misunderstandings and the adjustment of hot and cold scenes.As a unity of religious and secular nature,temple scenes help to gather coincidences and misunderstandings in a limited space and enhance the authenticity and ideological nature of coincidences and misunderstandings.Playwrights often arrange drama scenes,martial arts scenes and folk customs scenes in temple scenes to adjust the atmosphere of drama,so as to achieve the beauty of harmony between hot and cold and harmony between dynamic and dynamic.In addition,there are profound cultural connotations behind the frequent temple scenes in Ming legend.The author expresses his attitude towards religion by describing the religious belief of monks and nuns in temples.The playwright arranged the temple scene as the place of the love story,showing the rebellion against religious asceticism and the desire to break through the feudal ethics,which is the collision of Neo-Confucianism and cultural trend of thought.Through the creation of monks and nuns in the temple to help the needy and the gods to punish evil and promote good,the temple scene is set in the "Peach Blossom Garden" beyond reality,and the "happy reunion" ending is arranged in the temple,which expresses the writer's beautiful imagination of women's whole body to protect the festival,and sympathy for the suffering people.