A brief history of Ma Zhiyuan, Ma Zhiyuan s masterpiece

Ma Zhiyuan (c. 1250, between 1321 and the autumn of 1324), known as Dongli, was a native of Dadu (present-day Beijing, with objections), an opera artist of the Yuan Dynasty, and Guan Hanqing, Zheng Guangzu, and Bai Pu, known as the "Four Masters of Yuan Opera".

Ma Zhiyuan was born in a wealthy and literate family, when he was young, he was keen to seek fame, and seemed to have offered poems to the prince and was an official because of this, and then probably left Beijing to serve as the provincial governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province due to the death of the prince, and then participated in the "Yuanzhen Book Society" in the Yuanzhen period (early 1295 and early 1297), and seemed to live in seclusion in Hangzhou in his later years, and finally died of illness in the autumn of the first year of Zhizhi (1321) to the first year of Taiding (1324).

In terms of opera creation, Ma Zhiyuan has experienced the transformation from Confucianism to Taoism in terms of ideology, and has the characteristics of rich and profound ideological content and superb artistic skills in the creation of loose operas.

Ma Zhiyuan (c. 1250-?) The word Qianli (one says the word Zhiyuan), the number Dongli, Dadu (now Beijing) people, the other is said to be a person from Ma Citang Village, Dongguang County, Hebei Province. He is a famous dramatist and essayist in the Yuan Dynasty of China, and is known as the "Four Masters of Yuan Qu" together with Guan Hanqing, Zheng Guangzu and Bai Pu, and is known as the "Ancestor of Autumn Thought" and is respected as the "Qu Zhuangyuan".

From 1295 to 1297, he organized the "Yuanzhen Book Society" with the scribes Wang Bocheng and Li Shizhong. He is good at using the external form of sighing for the world to resist the cynical content, and he has written 15 kinds of miscellaneous plays, 7 of which are extant, and the most famous is "Han Palace Autumn". In addition, it is also longer than Xiaoling, representing as "Tianjingsha Qiusi".

Ma Zhiyuan, known as Dongli, is a writer of Yuanqu, and his representative works include "Autumn in the Han Palace", "Tianjingsha Autumn Thought", "Dongli Yuefu", "Yueyang Building", "Tears of Green Shirts", "Ren Fengzi" and so on.

Ma Zhiyuan was born in a well-educated family, and when he was young, he was keen to seek fame. He once offered poems to the prince and became an official, and then left Beijing to serve as the provincial official of Jiangsu and Zhejiang due to the death of the prince. Later, he participated in the "Yuanzhen Book Club" during the Yuanzhen period, and lived in seclusion in Hangzhou in his later years.

Ma Zhiyuan's scattered music ideas are rich in content, exquisite in the art of music making, and good at using various rhetorical techniques to reach a high artistic realm. The language of the prose is clear and beautiful, the characters are lifelike, full of painting and the style is elegant, unrestrained, old and spicy, clear, and the artistic conception is wonderful, which improves the artistic conception of the prose.

What is Sanko?

Sanqu, one of the genres of ancient Chinese literature, flourished in the Yuan Dynasty and was the literature of the same generation as Tang and Song poems. It is also known as "Yuefu" or "Jinlefu". It is a kind of Chinese ** literature that originated from the new folk voice, and it was a new poetic style that was appreciated by both the elegant and the vulgar at that time.

There are several types of loose songs, such as small rings, sets of songs, and bands in between. Later, with the rhythmization and de-citizenization of loose songs, it lost the vivid and vivid civic cultural blood with distinctive personalities, and became almost indistinguishable from Song poetry, and then declined, failing to prosper and continue to later generations like Tang and Song poetry.

Ma Zhiyuan's scattered songs are rich in content, involving the themes of history, sighing, retreat, boudoir love, and narrative in Yuan Sanqu, and each has its own achievements, broadening the scope of the theme of the scattered song. Let's take a look at what is Ma Zhiyuan's profile?

1. Ma Zhiyuan (c. 1250, between 1321 and the autumn of 1324), a native of Dadu (now Beijing, with objections), was an opera writer, essayist, and essayist in the Yuan Dynasty. and Guan Hanqing, Zheng Guangzu, and Bai Pu are known as the "Four Masters of Yuanqu".

2, Ma Zhiyuan was born in a wealthy and literate family, when he was young, he was keen to seek fame, and seemed to have offered poems to the prince and was an official because of this, and then probably left Beijing to serve as the provincial official of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province due to the death of the real gold, and then participated in the "Yuanzhen Book Club" in the Yuanzhen period (early 1295 and early 1297), and seemed to live in seclusion in Hangzhou in his later years, and finally died in the autumn of the first year of Zhizhi (1321) to the first year of Taiding (1324).

3. In terms of opera creation, Ma Zhiyuan has experienced the transformation from Confucianism to Taoism in terms of ideology, and has the characteristics of rich and profound ideological content and superb artistic skills in the creation of loose operas.

4. Ma Zhiyuan received Confucian education since childhood, read poetry and books, studied the six arts diligently, followed etiquette and music, and had a special fondness for guqin art. After middle age, with the change of his political career, Ma Zhiyuan's ** thought has undergone a transformation from Confucianism to Taoism. At that time, Ma Zhiyuan specialized in the creation of miscellaneous operas and loose songs, whether it was a lamenting lamentation of the world, or a fairy Taoist miscellaneous opera, all of which revealed obvious Taoist retreat thoughts.