The contrast between Dream of Red Mansions and the West Chamber is urgently needed

"Dream of Red Mansions" is a tragedy, and "The Legend of the West Chamber" is a comedy!

It's that simple!

Extraction code: 0kce "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 language of the characters in "The Legend of the West Chamber" has very prominent personality characteristics. Zhang Sheng's language is hearty and warm, expressing his open-mindedness, beauty, freedom and ease, expressing infatuation, describing eagerness, exaggerating exclamation, with the characteristics of a young scholar, full of comedy. The language of the matchmaker is sharp, playful, pungent, and refreshing, and the colloquial dialect blurts out.

Yingying's language is deep and elegant, and it seems lovely, charming, hesitant, dignified, reserved, and contained, without losing the demeanor of Miss Bad Country. The old lady's language is stiff, Huiming's language is bold and simple, and Zheng Heng's language is vulgar and vulgar. The lyrics of the Yuan Miscellaneous Opera Stove Town itself have the lyrical characteristics of poetry.

Zhu Quan said that Wang Shifu's lyrics: "The euphemism is euphemistic, and it is deeply interesting." There are excellent sentences, if the jade ring is out of the bath Huaqing, and the green pearl is lotus Luopu", affirming that Wang Shifu's lyrics have the language and artistic conception of poetry.

Wang Shifu's miscellaneous drama "The Legend of the West Chamber" has a distinct and profound anti-feudal theme. The love story of Zhang Sheng and Cui Yingying no longer stays in the model of "talented and beautiful", nor does it take "husband and wife glory" as the ideal of marriage. They have denied the traditional marriage method of feudal society, and have always pursued sincere feelings, and love has been placed above fame and fortune.

At the end of "The Legend of the West Chamber", for the first time in the history of Chinese imitation ruler literature, it positively expresses the good wish of "I wish all the people in the world will become dependents", expresses the progressive proposition of opposing feudal etiquette, feudal marriage system, and feudal hierarchy, and inspires young men and women to fight for freedom of love and independent marriage. The reason why "The Legend of the West Chamber" can become the "pressing" work of Yuan miscellaneous dramas is not only that it expresses the progressive ideas against feudal etiquette and the feudal marriage system, but also that it has achieved high artistic achievements in dramatic conflicts, structural arrangements, and character building. Cui Yingying, Zhang Sheng, Matchmaker, and Old Lady have all become immortal artistic models due to Wang Shifu's outstanding talent.

After the publication of Wang Shifu's "The Legend of the West Chamber", it had a wide and far-reaching impact on the history of Chinese literature. There are a large number of editions, and there are about 100 kinds of Ming and Qing engravings that have been handed down to this day. Many scholars in the Ming and Qing dynasties spoke highly of "The Legend of the West Chamber", and until modern times, various versions of "The Legend of the West Chamber" are still active on the stage and are highly appreciated by people.

The artistic achievements of "The Legend of the West Chamber" can be analyzed from the following aspects:

1 Wonderful comedic conflict.

Zhang Sheng, Yingying, and the matchmaker have caused many misunderstandings and conflicts due to personality differences, such as making trouble and Lai Jian. This conflict has a strong sense of drama, and at the same time, it portrays the characters and advances the storyline through the conflict.

2 Psychological depictions of success.

The psychological depiction of the warbler in the play is particularly successful. Wang Shifu used the following artistic techniques when describing the psychological activities of the warbler:

1) Use scenery descriptions to set off the psychology of characters;

2) describe the psychology of the characters through the perception of objective things;

3) the use of exaggeration and contrast to describe psychology;

4) Draw on the traditional methods of ancient literature and art to portray the psychology of characters.

3 The language of elegance and common appreciation.

The achievements of the language of "The Legend of the West Chamber" have always been praised, which is mainly manifested in:

1) Good at casting classical poems into lyrics, such as the song "Just right" in "Farewell to the Long Pavilion", which uses the words of Fan Zhongyan's "Su Curtain Cover".

2) Be able to absorb the spoken language of the masses, such as "Farewell to the Long Pavilion", "Nagging Order", "Happy Three" and other songs use a lot of colloquialisms and colloquialisms.

4. Unique and innovative system.

"The Legend of the West Chamber" broke the general practice of four folds in one Yuan miscellaneous drama and one character singing solo to the end, based on each four-fold book, with five books and twenty-one folds, to show Cui Zhang's love story. This arrangement also allows the main characters to sing, which is of great significance to portray the characters' personalities.