Mu Guiying’s thoughts after taking command

For reference only, I hope it will be helpful to you. I recently watched the Peking Opera "Mu Guiying Takes the Command" and felt deeply after watching it. During the appreciation process, I deeply realized the difference between drama and narrative literature. For example, the appearance of the characters written by novelists must be explained through language, but this is not required in drama. The character stands in front of the stage, and his appearance, body shape, clothing and even temperament are immediately presented to the viewer. Drama also omits the explanation of background and environment. The scenery and lighting on the stage can display these directly. The carrier of narrative literature is text, while drama is to demonstrate the characters' actions concretely, vividly and directly as they actually happened, and can display the characters' actions and emotional states in many aspects.

In a nutshell, drama is a process in which actors use simulated movements on the stage to demonstrate the contradictions and contradictions in life in front of the audience with the power of emotion rather than reason. Under special circumstances, the script does not need to be written, and the actors can still perform impromptu performances; the stage is not necessarily formal, and the place where actors perform artistic activities often becomes the stage. Therefore, there are people acting and people watching, which are the two basic aspects of the existence of drama. condition.

Dramatic art occupies an important position that is both basic and high-level. An illiterate old woman or an unsophisticated and innocent child cannot read prose or novels, but they can appreciate dramatic art and even sing a few lines or perform a few imitative performances. Dramatic art has generally penetrated into all walks of life, forming an important reference system for their aesthetic tastes, ethics, and political views, and becoming the source of their lifestyles and personality ideals.

Specifically, the aesthetic education functions of drama art mainly include the following aspects:

1. Drama is a type of comprehensive art, which combines literature, painting, sculpture, and music. , dance and other sister arts elements, integrating the wisdom and talents of various professionals such as screenwriters, directors, actors, art designers, and sound effects. The image created by dramatic art is a composite image that is closely integrated with time and space, vision and hearing, intuition and imagination, and it is a moving intuitive image. Therefore, appreciating drama art is equivalent to having intensive and extensive exposure to various high-level and high-quality arts at the same time. Its aesthetic education function is all-round, deep-level, and comprehensive, so it can comprehensively improve the artistic accomplishment of the aesthetic subject. and aesthetic quality.

2. Cause strong emotional resonance. The degree of excitement caused by dramatic art is at the forefront of all arts, and this is especially obvious in tragedy. Through the strong contrast between beauty and ugliness, drama stimulates the self-awareness of aesthetic subjects (audiences), allowing people to see beauty and ugliness in the objective world and the subject itself, strengthening the longing, pursuit and maintenance of beautiful things, and the hatred of ugly things , ridicule and lash, and give this struggle between beauty and ugliness direct action.

3. Purification of the soul. Tragedy has the "purifying" effect of making the audience's two emotions "fear" and "pity" - these are two weak and inferior emotions that exist in human nature. Through the sense of sublimity in tragedy, it has a purifying effect on the audience's soul. It guides the audience to eliminate the despicable thoughts and feelings hidden deep in their hearts and yearn for noble and great spiritual character, thus enriching and perfecting the audience's personality.

4. Get educated through laughter. Comedy is a major category of drama. It combines solemnity with humor, using laughter as a means to deny and ridicule falseness, ugliness, and evil, while affirming and praising truth, goodness, and beauty. Appreciating comedy works can not only make people feel happy and cultivate a spirit of optimism, but also cause people to think seriously about life and society, from which they can realize some philosophy and receive enlightenment and education