The Experience of Adapting and Creating Story-telling and Singing Literature of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms since the Ming and Qing Dynasties

Abstract

Abstract: Many folk story-telling and singing works have been adapted from The Romance of The Three Kingdoms since the Ming and Qing dynasties. During its adaption and performance, the folk artists have accumulated plenty of general art experience. Firstly, they change the the novel, which is to be read, into a performing art on the stage. Secondly, they reconstruct the plots or create new ones. Thirdly, they enrich the mentality and personality of the main characters, probing into the personality and psychology of the minor characters, and sometimes creating some new roles. Moreover, in order to get close to the public and cater to their tastes, the artists would secularize the characters and stories in accordance with the times and circumstances, and increase the entertaining appeal of the narrative. To sum up, it is these artists' adapting and creating experience that transforms The Romance of The Three Kingdoms to various forms of popular literary works.

Key words: The Romance of The Three Kingdoms, story-telling and singing literature, adaptation and creation, folk artists

CLC Number:

Ji Dejun. The Experience of Adapting and Creating Story-telling and Singing Literature of The Romance of the Three Kingdoms since the Ming and Qing Dynasties[J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2016, 36(5): 139-147.

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