"The Orphan of Zhao" is a Yuan miscellaneous drama! It was written by a drama master named Ji Junxiang in the Yuan Dynasty.

The full name of "Zhao's Orphan" is "Zhao's Orphan", also known as "Zhao's Orphan's Revenge", which is a drama adapted from a true historical story, which tells the story of the Zhao family, a nobleman of the Jin Kingdom in the Spring and Autumn Period, who was framed by the traitor Tu Anjia and was tragically destroyed, and the surviving Zhao orphan Zhao Wu grew up to avenge the story of his family.

The story was also widely circulated in the Empire, but it became less of a household name because there was no theatrical version of the story!

Therefore, the choice of this story as the subject matter is still very widely accepted among the people of the empire.

Moreover, the drama "The Orphan of Zhao" also has extremely high artistic value in the history of drama.

Ye Chen remembered that in his previous life, Wang Guowei said in the book "History of Song and Yuan Opera": "After the Ming Dynasty, legends are nothing more than comedies, and Yuan has tragedies in them." Its most tragic nature is such as Guan Hanqing's "Dou E's Injustice" and Ji Junxiang's "Zhao's Orphan". ”

In addition, "Zhao's Orphan" is also quite famous internationally, and some people praise it as: "God from the East".

Voltaire once adapted "The Orphan of Zhao" into a five-act play, which was the earliest Chinese opera work transmitted to Europe at that time.

The British playwright William Herchatt's adaptation of "The Chinese Orphan" caused a major repercussion in the British cultural circles, and he said in his dedication: "There are some reasonable things in it that cannot be compared with famous British plays." ”

Of course, due to the different historical trajectories of the two worlds, these familiar names and works do not appear.

As a classical Chinese drama and a tragedy, "The Orphan of Zhao" and "Hamlet" have both similarities and radical differences.

For example, the conflict in both plays is not without intensity, and the father of the protagonist in "Hamlet" is killed

His uncle killed and then stole the throne, and also usurped the protagonist's mother, and the protagonist in "The Orphan of Zhao" was even more tragically destroyed! Both protagonists have extremely tragic experiences, but the spirit embodied in the two plays is very different.

In the Western understanding of drama, it is believed that the destruction of tragic characters is deserved, and their destruction is the victory of "eternal justice", so the resolution of conflict must be reconciliation.

For example, the sword fight scene in the final ending of "Hamlet" makes the protagonist and the villain die together, and to some extent, this can be regarded as "reconciliation".

The victory of justice is not reconciliation, but like the foolish man moving mountains, it is realized in the struggle of children and grandchildren, and this tragic spirit is manifested in this kind of continuous struggle.

All in all, the tragic art of Western drama usually takes the form of a tragedy to the end, and there is usually a large number of direct statements of inner monologues and a strong sense of grief and indignation brought about by strong emotional outbursts.

In contrast, the tragedies in classical oriental dramas usually have a hint of "reunion" comedy, and in the development of the storyline, a sad emotional atmosphere is slowly revealed.

For example, in "Hamlet", all the characters in the play die one after another in the end, all the way to the tragedy, and the protagonist Hamlet is like a cup on a tea tray, which is simply a tragedy within a tragedy!

The sense of tragedy embodied in "The Orphan of Zhao" is different, it is not only the cruel persecution and massacre of loyal and righteous people such as the Zhao family in the era when Tu Anjia and other traitors were in power, but also the fighting spirit of those warriors who fought for the country and the family and sacrificed their lives for righteousness. Warriors like Gongsun Pestle and Cheng Ying, and their fearless dedication who were willing to sacrifice finally saved the orphans of the Zhao family and the people of the world. The ending of a tragedy is always the triumph of good over evil, and its happy ending is combined with the connotation of its tragedy, and it has a bright tail of reunion.

In Ye Chen's opinion, such a drama is undoubtedly more in line with the aesthetics of the imperial people!

As for why "Hamlet" is more well-known in the world than "The Orphan of Zhao"?

This is not difficult to explain, after all, in the previous life, white people were in a stronger position, even a draft that was obviously a few random graffiti in Ye Chen's eyes could fetch a sky-high price and call it a work of art.

Some indignant Ye Chen always thought that these barbarians who even held knives and forks for dinner didn't understand what a real work of art was!

Isn't wearing a suit and holding a knife and fork a barbarian?

Tell a joke, Mu Monkey and crown!

The funny thing is that some experts in the Tu Dynasty put so many real artistic treasures of their country away from research, and they boasted about certain "works of art" in the West all day long, eager to kneel down and call Dad.

Of course, it is undeniable that there are many real works of art in them, but there are only a few more countries with a history of 5,000 years!

It is a pity that the government's lack of attention and the yearning for "liberalism" of countless cents have reduced these works of art that should have shined in the world to the point that they can only appear in history textbooks, which is suffocating!

Fortunately, feng shui takes turns, and now it is the turn of the imperial father to beat the world, different from the embarrassing world status in the previous life, the current imperial father is all over the world as the world's policeman, the light of freedom shines in every corner of the world, and some shielding words are on the verge of extinction in the empire.

On the contrary, there are countless rice traitors, moral traitors, and law traitors!

It's like a leek, cutting stubble after stubble!

The leading party has the kneeling and licking party, and the only drawback is the lack of a cultural banner!

After all, the teacher of the king should also pay attention to the fact that a teacher is famous!

Even if it is a peaceful evolution, it must be moisturized silently!

There is only one way to conquer a place as quickly as possible, and that is to slaughter, for example, in the previous life, the lighthouse country known as the guiding light of the free world, it was wise to build the Statue of Liberty into the sea, because there were too many souls of Indians on land!

And there is only one way to completely conquer a world, and that is assimilation!

It is only through cultural conquest that one can truly realize the greatness of this nation.

Ye Chen felt the need to let the uncivilized barbarians in this world with knives and forks teach them what true literature and art were.

Whether it is literature, film and television, music or drama, as long as Ye Chen can get involved, Ye Chen will not stand idly by!

The topic is a bit far away.

In short, after thinking about the feasibility for a while, Ye Chen began to write.

Title: "The Orphan of Zhao"

Time: Spring and autumn

Location: Jin Kingdom

The first act begins, and Tu Anjia is on it.

Tu Anjia: The monarch has an order, check, Zhao Dun, the prime minister of the Jin State, and his son are proud of their achievements, they deceive the monarch, and the crime is unforgivable, and they are ordered to be beheaded all over the house and exterminate the nine clans

In April, in the conference room of the Royal Theatre, a big drama officially kicked off!

Director, Ye Chen!(To be continued.) )