In addition to the unfinished work "The Story of the Purple Flute" in the early years, Tang Xianzu's drama works are mainly "The Story of the Purple Hairpin", "The Story of the Soul" (that is, "The Peony Pavilion"), the Legend of Nanke, and the Four Legends of Handan. The first two works write love stories of young men and women, mainly reflecting himA celebration of true love；The latter two works depict the ups and downs of the feudal scholars, mainly reflecting himReflections on politics
The main features of Tang Xianzu's opera works are as follows:
OneIn terms of content, the four dreams of "Four Dreams of Linchuan" interpret the complicated things in the world。"The Story of the Purple Hairpin" tells the story of Huo Xiaoyu and the scholar Li Yi who got married, was framed by Taiwei Lu, and was helped by the heroic yellow-shirted guest, and finally solved the suspicion and eliminated the misconception of the joys and sorrows of the misunderstanding. "The Peony Pavilion" depicts Du Liniang's infatuation with Liu Mengmei Yong, who died of love and injury due to dreams, fell in love with people and ghosts, came back to life, and finally married Liu Mengmei Yong. "The Story of Nan Ke" tells the story of the scholar Chun Yu Di in his dream to be a big Huai Anguo horse, Ren Nan Ke Taishou, glory and wealth and waking up to learn Buddhism. "Handan Ji" shows that Lu Sheng married a wife in a dream, won the champion, made meritorious contributions to the imperial court, was framed and exiled, returned to the court to be the prime minister, enjoyed all the glory and wealth, and woke up after death, only to know that it was a yellow dream, so he was awakened. The first two plays express the pursuit of beautiful love and the criticism of feudal etiquette that restricts people's freedom. The latter two dramas are both works of the author after resigning and returning to hiding, both of which belong to political dramas written with dreams, expressing the author's complete denial of the hypocrisy of chasing fame and fortune, and at the same time, they both seek the ultimate destination of life with the help of the birth ideals of Buddhism and Taoism.
IIStructurally, the four dreams of the "Four Dreams of Linchuan" are ever-changing and always love。Tang Xianzu once said when talking about his four dream creations: "Because of love becomes a dream, because of dreams become a play." In fact, "dream" is only the expression of the play, and "love" is the ideal "dream" of the play", as for where the "love" is and where it is attributed, the four dramas have different emphases. "The Legend of Nanke" and "The Legend of Handan" can be said to be the dream road of life that is both true and false, while "The Story of the Purple Hairpin" embodies the touching sincerity of "love is priceless, what is the use of money". The dream of "The Peony Pavilion" is even more emotional: life and death, death and life, being a ghost also has to be a "love ghost", entering the ground**, looking for it, and finally getting pure love.
IIIHe is good at psychological depiction in character building. In character building, Tang Xianzu is good at "exploring the vivid subtleties of his seven emotions from the essence of the tendons", going deep into the inner world of the characters, seeking the potential roots of their joys, sorrows, and sorrows, and expressing them delicately and profoundly, tactfully and tortuously;He is also good at making artistic fiction of the characters from "increasing or decreasing the sculpture in the sky, and living with the slightest breeze", so as to give the characters a distinctive character and profound cultural connotation. "The Peony Pavilion" is more prominent in this aspect, such as "Garden" mainly writes that Du Liniang walked out of the boudoir and saw a new world in order to relieve her depression. Through the emotional changes of appreciating spring, feeling spring, and hurting spring, Du Liniang's youthful depression and mental depression are revealed.
FourthIn terms of language, the author is good at creating poetic dramatic situations through the harmonious combination of poetry and drama。The author has always been classified as a literary school, and is known for the beauty and elegance of his language. His plays not only inherit the tradition of the original language of Yuan miscellaneous opera, but also fuse the beautiful and exquisite craftsmanship of literati and classical poetry, tempering a kind of opera language that combines true nature and gorgeous etherealism, making this drama a model of both the book on the desk and the music on the stage.
[Li Fan keywords:The complicated things of the world are ever-changing, always emotional, psychological description, and the harmonious combination of poetry and drama
[Li Fan said:The characteristics of Tang Xianzu's drama creation are one of the key points of our ancient literature examination, and we can answer from four aspects: content, structure, artistic technique and language style.