The role of the Chinese happy ending

The happy ending is meant to compensate for the bleakness of reality. The embodiment of the desire to transcend one's own limitations.

The Chinese like happy ending, just like the fairy tale ending is always "from now on the prince and princess live happily ever after", in fact, is the best explanation of the Chinese people on the happy ending, since ancient times, the idea of the beauty of the neutralization of the laying of "happy ending" ideal world. The idea of harmony and beauty since ancient times has laid the foundation for the ideal world of "happy reunion".

Most Chinese art works tend to have a happy ending, even if it is a romantic death. In "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai", it seems that all the oppression in the feudal society made them martyred one after another, but it seems that the great sadness has turned into butterflies and flew away after their deaths, bringing a touch of comfort to people's wounded hearts.

Mu Xin in the "Literary Memoirs" said: "Chinese people have a plot, I call it "reunion plot", not a reunion, refused to break up, begging for a reunion, or the audience to scold the author to death. The Greeks, after watching the tragedy, have a heavy heart and are purified. Chinese people after watching the reunion, cheek to cheek to eat a midnight snack, a moment to forget."

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"The great reunion" is a kind of aesthetic psychological phenomenon peculiar to our country, and it appeared in a large number of opera novels after the Song Dynasty. For the drama plot: this way the drama, always a happy ending, lack of real tragic power.

As "rustic E wrong" of the injustice, "Zhao's Orphan" of the orphans revenge, "Han Palace Autumn" of the "reunion dream", "Pipa" of the "Jade Candle and harmony", "flag of loyalty" full of flags, "Palace of Eternal Life" of the "The Toad Palace", and so on. The "fun of reunion" has become an extremely common traditional aesthetic psychological phenomenon in China.

The Chinese early people's examination of the objective world probably began with the "sky". The repetition of spring, summer, autumn and winter, the alternation of day and night, and the cycle of sunrise and sunset made them intuitively form the concepts of "Qian is the sky, and it is a circle" and "the sky is like a chicken, and the heavenly body is like a projectile".

Because China is an ancient farming country, the good or bad of the sky is directly related to the amount of agricultural harvest, therefore, for the low level of productivity of the ancestors, the round sky above their heads became the object of their worship, this worship of the sky has led to the formation of the concept of the sky. This worship of "heaven" led to the affinity and reverence for "heaven's" laws of operation, the "circle".

The I Ching, as the source of Chinese philosophy, embodies the ancient Chinese concept of the circle, and the circle is one of the most important laws in the mind of the author of the I Ching. For the I Ching, the circle is not only a mysterious word, but also the highest and the most beautiful realm of the circle, which is unobstructed and unending.

The concept of nature in the philosophical thought of Laozi is also described by the circle of the circumference. The eighty-one chapters of Laozi (The Nine Nine Chapters of Laozi) symbolize the endlessness of the Tao, the endlessness of change, and the endlessness of the circumference of the circle. Han Fei in the "interpretation of the old chapter" in the evaluation of Laozi thought, said: "with its circumference, the strong word of the road," revealing the Tao's circumference of the cycle of the characteristics. This "nine-nine" cyclical "Tao" structure is inseparable from the circle.

Because "circle" makes people feel aesthetically satisfied with its completeness, "circle" is often used in the sense of "completeness" and "the most beautiful" by Buddhists. Therefore, "circle" is often revered by Buddhists in the sense of "perfection" and "supreme beauty".

Buddhism calls the true wisdom of Prajna "round wisdom," the true wisdom of Prajna's view of the world "round illumination," the good roots "round roots," and the highest stage of cultivation "round completion. "The highest stage of spiritual cultivation is called "completion," the realm of nirvana is called "complete silence," and the most beautiful thing is called "the sea of complete perfection. Here, "round" can be interpreted as "perfect", "great beauty" and "most beautiful".

Circle in Chinese philosophy means the realm of Taoism and Zen, Yi, Zhuang, and Zen coincidentally take the circle as the highest spiritual realm, which has a profound aesthetic connotation.

Confucianism's impartiality of the middle ground, Taoism's philosophical thought of the existence of nothing, Buddhism's concept of karma, "Zhouyi" used to interpret the mystery of the universe and life of the taiji mode of thinking, as well as this paper discusses the "reunion" of the aesthetic psychology, seem to be present in the same circle of the schema.

"Circle" is not only a symbol of completeness, but also a manifestation of cyclic repetition, as well as a conception, understanding and pursuit of the Chinese people's ideals of society, life and themselves. Reflected in the ancient Chinese opera novels, everything should be perfect and flawless, the lack of regret. Ancient Chinese tragedy is the saddest to be considered Guan Hanqing's "Dou'e Grievance", the play not only blood spattered white practice, but also the June snow.

Can be said to be shocked by the world, fully demonstrated the great injustice of Dou E, the depth of the pain. But the author of a turn, but to a "Dou Tianzhang for the female injustice to clear the snow", from sad to happy, from the lack of round.

The reverence for the circle seems to have become a diffuse culture - the norms of aesthetic ideals, "happy ending" is the aesthetic subject of the norms of reverence and submission, but also the aesthetic subject of the traditional norms of pandering and compromise.

While it has elected the pursuit of harmony and beauty in Chinese literature and art, as well as the development of sophisticated and refined skills, it has also curbed the horrifying shock and gut-wrenching cruelty of the destruction of beauty, sublimity, and goodness in Chinese art, especially in tragedy.

The traditional concept of roundness is not only an important reason for the formation of the aesthetic psychology of "reunion", but also makes China, the psychological desire of aesthetic culture tends to be more rounded, and tends to a kind of flexibility and resilience, as well as the beauty of the rounded and blended neutralization.

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