Four Tragedies and Four Love Plays of Yuan Zaju

The four tragedies of Yuan Zaju are Yuan, Autumn in the Palace of Han Dynasty and Orphan of Zhao, and the four tragedies of love drama are Moon Pavilion, Romance of the West Chamber, Mounting on the Wall and Ghost Story of the Lost Daughter.

First, the four tragedies of Yuanqu

1. The author of Dou Eyuan is Guan Hanqing. This story is based on the filial piety of Donghai in Biography of Lienv, and successfully shapes the image of the tragic hero Dou E.

2. The author of Wu Tongyu is Bai Pu, whose full name is Wu Tongyu on a Autumn Night in Tang Dynasty, which is a love story between Tang and Yang Guifei.

3. The author of Autumn in the Han Palace is Ma Zhiyuan, who wrote the story that the Yuan Emperor of the Western Han Dynasty was coerced by Xiongnu and forced to send his beloved Princess Wang Zhaojun to the Great Wall to get married.

4. The author of The Orphan of Zhao is Ji. The content is the story of Jin nobles who were framed by treacherous court officials during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the surviving orphans who took revenge when they grew up.

Second, the four major love dramas of Yuan Qu

1, Moon Pavilion was written by Guan Hanqing, which is the Moon Pavilion in in my heart forever by Wang Ruilan. The content is the story of scholar Jiang Shilong and Wang Ruilan who met and fell in love in the war-torn years.

2. The author of The West Chamber is Wang Shifu, who wrote the story that Zhang Junrui, a scholar, and Cui Yingying, a miss Guo Xiang, fell in love and broke through many obstacles to finally get married.

3. The author of "Going to the Wall Right away" is Bai Pu, who wrote the story of Pei, the son of Shangshu, and Li Qianjin, the daughter of the manager, who privately decided for life.

4. The author of Away from the Soul is Zheng Guangzu, which is from the legendary novel Away from the Soul written by Chen in the Tang Dynasty, and tells the story of Zhang Qian's daughter and peace.

Wu Tongyu's creative background;

When Baipu was born, under the double attack of the Southern Song Dynasty and Mongolia, the Jin Dynasty was already in jeopardy. When Baipu was eight years old, Jin was destroyed by the Mongols. He lived a vagrant life when he was a child, and his mother died in the war. When Bai Pu grew up, her family was reduced and unhappy, and she was determined not to be an official. He refused to be drafted by the Yuan government many times, which made him "ridiculous" and "degenerate" (Wang Bowen's Preface to the Collection of Teana). He drifted for fifteen years and settled in Jinling at the age of fifty-five.

Bai Pu was born in a family with a strong literary atmosphere. When I was a teenager, I studied poetry and ancient prose under the famous poet Yuan Haowen. Therefore, his cultural accomplishment is very high, and his poems, Sanqu and Zaju were once famous. In his poems and Sanqu, he often shows his yearning for the motherland, his feelings about vicissitudes of life, his sadness about life and his gloomy mood.