Invisible Moral Education Function of Traditional Chinese Opera

Traditional Chinese opera has the function of moral education in ancient society. Moral education should be entertaining, not dogmatic, and educating people in a tough way will be counterproductive. China ancient opera contains entertainment factors such as music and dance, which is an important form of attraction. The plots displayed by singing opera make people educated in entertainment.

In ancient times, except in the winter slack season and during the temple fair, people rarely gathered on a large scale. At this time, the troupe began to sing opera, and the content of singing opera had to be audited by the officials at that time. The content must be guaranteed to be good. Positive and negative characters are solidified and plastic surgery is carried out. Positive people worship learning, while negative people hate learning.

Jiao Xun in the Qing Dynasty recorded an example in his drama: Fengjing Town, located on the border of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, once performed a performance of gods on March 3. When Qin Gui killed Yue Fei, suddenly a man stepped onto the stage from the crowd, holding a sharp blade in his hand and bleeding all over the floor. Tied up to see the official and told him to kill someone, his people leaned back and said, "People and the pear garden have never met once. They were angry for a while and would rather die together, so they have no time to care about authenticity." When the audience saw actor Qin Gui's performance, they were so angry that they even urged him to go on stage and kill the opera singer who played Qin Gui. Of course, this is a special case and a counterexample, but the enlightenment function achieved by acting is obvious.

Ten or twenty years ago, during the slack season in winter, the village committee, sometimes the local business owner, paid the troupe to sing on stage, usually for five or seven days, and some nights. People in Li Sanhe and wucun can gather hundreds of men, women and children, some ride bicycles by themselves, some drive three rounds, and old people and old ladies with inconvenient legs and feet sit in the back seat to watch the play, which is very lively. Modern sound can spread all over the village, singing until evening, late at night. Those who stay at home and watch TV instead of going to the opera never like to make noise and disturb the people. Accompanied by continuous or occasional firecrackers, it shows the noise of the New Year and is a unique charm in rural areas.

Nowadays, people's entertainment is TV, movies and self-media, which can be entertained anytime and anywhere, but without scarcity, there is a lack of treasure; No ceremony, no sense of solemnity. Modern people's entertainment may be just fun.

Now, during the Spring Festival in winter, the stage is occasionally set up in the village square, and few people are watching the play under the stage. It doesn't matter whether the stage is set up or not, whether the opera is finished or not. Without the excitement of rural people, China traditional drama seems to have lost the charm of China traditional drama.