The Legend of the West Chamber, Style, Appreciation, Background

, try to discuss the artistic characteristics of "The Legend of the West Chamber".

Wang Shifu's "The Legend of the West Chamber" was a great artistic success.

1) From the perspective of plot arrangement and structural skills, the plot is twisty and the structure is ingenious and reasonable. The whole play is plotted from two clues: the main line is the conflict between Zhang Sheng, Yingying and the matchmaker and the old lady, and the character conflict between Cui, Zhang and the matchmaker is the secondary line, and the two are intertwined and restricted, which is very dramatic.

2) There is a breakthrough in the system. It breaks the four-fold system of Yuan miscellaneous dramas, and uses five twenty-one-fold long books to connect the stage plays; and broke the general practice of one-person lead singer in Yuan opera, and adopted the method of Dan and last round singing in several folded plays. This kind of breakthrough and innovation has played a very good role in arranging the plot and portraying the characters.

3) Created a character with a distinct personality. The author mainly puts the characters in the complex contradictions and conflicts, and shapes the characters through the characters' own words and deeds, so that the plot development and the characters are more ingeniously and reasonably combined, so that the characters have distinct personalities and vivid images.

4) Beautiful words, high language skills. The author carefully arranges the lyrical singing language and the subtext-rich confessional language to make the characters' language fully dramatized and personalized. It plays an excellent role in creating a dramatic atmosphere and expressing the deep feelings of the characters.

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<> theme of "The Legend of the West Chamber" is to enthusiastically praise the rationality and legitimacy of the ancient youth in pursuit of pure love and independent marriage through the love entanglement of Cui and Zhang, and openly criticize the feudal stubborn forces represented by the old lady, and for the first time clearly put forward the marriage ideal of "May all the people in the world become dependents", giving people warmth and hope, which is where its positive spiritual power lies.

Cui Yingying Waiting for the Moon in the West Chamber" (referred to as "The Legend of the West Chamber", also known as "Wang West Chamber" and "North West Chamber") is a miscellaneous drama created by Wang Shifu in the Yuan Dynasty, which was written in the reign of Yuan Zhen and Dade (1295 1307).

The whole play tells the story of scholar Zhang Sheng (known as Junrui) and Miss Xiangguo Cui Yingying, with the help of the maid matchmaker, breaking through the obstacles of Sun Feihu, Cui Mu, Zheng Heng and others, and finally becoming a family.

The play has a strong anti-feudal etiquette color, the author writes about young people's desire for love, the irrepressible and legitimate and reasonable love and desire, and the conflict between young people's own wishes and parents' will; It expresses the love concept of "I hope that all the affectionate people in the world will become dependents". The whole drama has a magnificent system, and it uses five books and twenty-one folds to perform a complete story, which is rare in ancient miscellaneous dramas. The plot of the play is fascinating, vivid and vivid, brilliant and poetic.

Introduction: Zhang Sheng met Miss Xiangguo Cui Yingying in the Pufu Temple and fell in love at first sight. happened to encounter the rebel general Sun Feihu led his troops to besiege the temple, and wanted to force Yingying to be the lady of the village; Zhang Sheng agreed to marry Cui's mother, and relied on the help of his friend General Baima to relieve the crisis.

Unexpectedly, Cui's mother broke her promise and got married, and with the help of the matchmaker, Yingying finally went to Zhang Sheng's residence for a private meeting.

Cui's mother noticed the signs and was hit by a few words from the matchmaker, and reluctantly agreed to the marriage, but on the grounds of the family, Zhang Sheng immediately went to Beijing to take the exam. Zhang Sheng went to Beijing to take the top prize; And Zheng Heng took the opportunity to make up a lie, saying that Zhang Sheng had married another person in Beijing, and the old lady was married again and asked Yingying to marry Zheng Heng. Later, Zhang Sheng came, Zheng Heng was killed, and Cui and Zhang got married.

The whole play tells the story of scholar Zhang Sheng (Zhang Junrui) and Miss Xiangguo Cui Yingying, with the help of the lady matchmaker, who broke through the obstacles of Sun Feihu, Cui Mu, Zheng Heng and others, and finally became a family.

The background of the creation of "The Legend of the Cave in the West" is the Tang Dynasty, but from the perspective of the spiritual connotation it expresses, it is undoubtedly a true reflection of Wang Shifu's society in the Yuan Dynasty. Religion was very popular in the Yuan Dynasty, because the feudal dynasty established by the Mongolian aristocracy adopted a policy of tolerance and protection for various religions, and secondly, the spread and development of various religions themselves. The Mongol iron hooves trampled through the Song society built by Cheng Zhu Lixue, which led to the pluralism of beliefs in the Yuan Dynasty.

People want to break through the shackles of feudal etiquette and religion, the intervention of feudal parents, get rid of the shackles of ideology and spiritual slavery, control their own destiny, desire freedom, pursue individual liberation, and yearn for ideal divine fire. He believed that all marriages that were not conditional on affection were unhealthy and unreasonable, and then denied the feudal arranged marriage system of the words of the parents and the matchmaker.

The Legend of the West Chamber is a long story created by the writer Wang Shifu in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, which reflects the harsh oppression of feudal society and the people's desire for freedom, happiness and love by describing the love story between Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai. Wang Shifu's creation of the West Chamber was mainly influenced by the political, economic, and cultural aspects of Chinese society at that time.

During the Yuan Dynasty, the origins of literature and art were officially suppressed and literary creation activities were banned, as the Yuan regime adopted a series of policies to restrict and suppress culture and art in order to consolidate its political dominance. However, although the Yuan Dynasty officially banned cultural and artistic creation, folk cultural and artistic creation still continued to exist and flourished. Wang Shifu is such a Chinese feudal society folk art creator, he created the West Chamber at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, this to Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai's beautiful love story as the theme of ** has become a classic of Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty opera literature.

On this basis, the purpose of the writer Wang Shifu in creating the West Chamber is to appeal to and expose the ugly side of feudal society through his works, as well as to appeal to people's inequality and harmony in reality, as well as people's eternal pursuit of freedom and happiness. Therefore, he set the main plot in the ** confessional paragraph in the middle of the Ming Dynasty to show the extreme reactionary and decadent feudal patriarchal system and bureaucratic system, so that people can realize the absolute evil of this system and feel the power of resistance and the pursuit of "personal freedom".

In short, the Legend of the West Chamber is an important ancient Chinese **, it reflects the ugly side of the feudal society at that time, calls for people's pursuit of freedom, happiness and love, and its achievements in describing the characters, shaping the plot and performance skills are a temporary choice and have a far-reaching impact. <>

1, "The Legend of the West Chamber" broke through the convention of Yuan Miscellaneous Qixun dramas that are generally 1 book and 4 folds, and used 5 books and 21 folds to interpret a vivid and tortuous beautiful love story.

2. Since its inception, it has been staged and has become the final work of Yuan miscellaneous dramas. In terms of the innovation of the storyline, the ingenious arrangement of the structure, the reasonable setting of the dramatic conflict, and the effective shaping of the characters, "The Legend of the West Chamber" has reached a high degree of integration of character and plot, and the interweaving of such complex contradictions and conflicts has reached a certain height.

3, Wang Shifu's Yuan miscellaneous drama "The Story of the West Chamber", since its inception, has been recited endlessly, staged endlessly. The reason why "The Legend of the West Chamber" has achieved such an achievement and become the final work of the Yuan miscellaneous drama provides valuable experience for the drama creation since the Ming and Qing dynasties, not only in its progressive ideas against feudal etiquette and feudal marriage system, but also in its innovation in the storyline, the ingenious arrangement of the structure, the reasonable setting of dramatic conflicts, and the effective shaping of characters.