2. Source: The source of this sentence is Tang Xianzu's Peony Pavilion. ?
3, excerpt: ask what you want, ask what you want, peony flowers die, ghosts are also romantic! You don't want anything, you don't want anything, don't let lonely women enter an account to solve thousands of worries! The story describes that Du Liniang dreamed that a scholar asked her to write a poem with a willow branch in her hand, and then he was taken to the Peony Pavilion by the scholar, and they had sex. ? Later it gradually evolved into this sentence.
4. Synopsis: The drama describes the story that Du Liniang, the daughter of an official, fell in love with Liu Mengmei, a scholar, in her dream, and then died of injuries. In reality, she turned into a soul looking for a lover, fell in love with a ghost, finally came back to life, and finally became one with Liu Mengmei forever. The language of this play is elegant and beautiful. It is one of the outstanding works in the history of China's traditional operas, and it is also known as the four classical dramas of China together with Cui Yingying's The West Chamber, Dou E's Imprisonment and the Palace of Eternal Life.
Extended data:
1, creative background
Tang Xianzu has an extraordinary mind and talent since he was a child. However, because of his bad luck, he offended the powerful and failed in the imperial examination four times, which made Tang Xianzu have a clear and profound understanding of the disadvantages of the imperial examination system, the ugly face of the powerful and malicious revenge. The hardships on the road of life have not changed Tang Xianzu's principle of upholding himself and attaching importance to virtue, but have created his style of firm will and paying attention to integrity. Soon, Tang Xianzu, who was in danger in the officialdom, slowly reduced his ambition to apply what he had learned.
After the official was demoted, Tang Xianzu made up his mind to bid farewell to officialdom and put his enthusiasm for serving the country into his opera creation. Tang Xianzu, who attaches great importance to emotion and righteousness, has always closely linked "emotion" and "ambition", pointing out that "everything has its own aspirations", and has long tried to develop opera creation with emotion as the core theme. The friendly interaction between Tang Xianzu and his friends, that is, "the dream is born of emotion" and "the emotion comforts life", brought him a special emotional experience, and finally prompted Tang Xianzu to embark on the creative road of "the dream is made of emotion and the play is made of dream".
2. Appreciation of works
In The Peony Pavilion, Du Liniang, the exhausted daughter of the satrap, falls asleep in the garden, meets a refined scholar Liu Mengmei and has sex. After waking up from a dream, Du Liniang was disconsolate. "I don't know what happened." Acacia became ill, so sick that it was hard to recover. Three years later, Liu Mengmei, a dream person in Du Liniang, accidentally got a portrait of a beautiful woman, and Li Niang re-entered the world as a wandering soul, looking for a dream marriage. With the help of others, Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei finally broke the barrier of love, came back to life, and finally got married.
In this legendary work, Tang Xianzu depicts the touching love between Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei. This most affectionate interpretation of love represents Tang Xianzu's philosophical thinking and secular experience of life and love, and Du Liniang, who is deeply in love, becomes the embodiment of Tang Xianzu's most affectionate ideal.
3. Introduction to the author
Tang Xianzu (1550- 16 16), a native of Linchuan, Jiangxi Province, is an Amin dramatist, whose real name is Hai Ruo, also known as Ruoshi, and a Taoist priest in Qingyuan. He became famous very early. 2 1 year-old is a juren, and 34 years old is a scholar. He has been the doctor of Taichang Temple, the master book of Zhan, and the monk of Bi Li Temple. He made a historical canon in xuwen county, Guangdong Province, because he strongly criticized the failure of state affairs by playing On Auxiliary Ministers and Ministers. Two years later, he was transferred to Suichang County, Zhejiang Province, where he contained the strongmen, cared about people's livelihood and did a lot of good governance. At the age of 49, he abandoned his official position and returned to his hometown to devote himself to opera creation.
Tang Xianzu was deeply influenced by "Left-wing Wang Xue", who opposed Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism, criticized retro literature and pursued individual liberation. His creative achievements are mainly in operas, such as The Peony Pavilion, The Story of Purple Hairpin, The Story of Conan and The Story of Handan, which are collectively called "Four Dreams of Tang Yuming" (also called "Four Dreams of Linchuan"), and his poems include The Complete Works of Tang Yuming.
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