The Beauty of Kunqu Opera "The Romance of West Chamber” Observed from Three Dimensions

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10.2991/hsmet-19.2019.132How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Kunqu Opera, The Romance of West Chamber, Three-dimensional View.

Abstract

The Chinese Kunqu Opera "Romance of the Western Chamber" (“Xi Xiang Ji” in Chinese), a classic work containing rich essence, has played a leading and evergreen role in the opera stage of the Ming and Qing Dynasties and even later generations. It caters to people's aesthetic taste and is in line with Li Yu's theory of "Three Beauties" and Zhang Geng’s aesthetic theory of "Three Topics”. Based on these theories of aesthetics, the author analyzes from the perspective of opera aesthetics by combining various materials, and holds that the Kunqu Opera "Romance of the Western Chamber" has the beauty of "Three-dimensional View" of opera, that is, the beauty of exquisite opera writing, of magnificent performance and of combination of form and spirit, which can be regarded as the model of Chinese classical opera aesthetics.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ronghua Wu
AU  - Jianhua Liu
PY  - 2019/07
DA  - 2019/07
TI  - The Beauty of Kunqu Opera "The Romance of West Chamber” Observed from Three Dimensions
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Humanities Science, Management and Education Technology (HSMET 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 713
EP  - 716
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/hsmet-19.2019.132
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