Is Guan Hanqing's masterpiece Dou E Grievance, Saving the Wind and Dust and Single Dagger Society?

What are Guan Hanqing's masterpieces Dou E Grievance, Saving the Wind and Dust and Single Dagger Society?

His The Sensational Dou'e Grievance is the best and most glorious play in the Yuan dynasty, which is like a diatribe against the Yuan rulers. Through the tragedy of Dou'e, who is pure and kind-hearted, he exposes the crimes of usurious exploitation by loan sharks, the rampant hooliganism of gangsters, and the corruption and abuse of the law and human life by officials in the Yuan society, and lashes out at the chaotic, monstrous and cannibalistic ugly nature of the Yuan society.

Artistic Status

Guan Hanqing was a great writer in the history of Chinese literature and theater, who composed many miscellaneous dramas and prose songs with outstanding achievements in his life. His plays laid a solid foundation for the prosperity and development of Yuan miscellaneous dramas, and he was the founder of Yuan miscellaneous dramas.

When he was born, he was a leading figure in the opera world, "Record Ghost Book" in Jia Zhongming hanging words that he was "driving pear orchard leader, chief editorial repair division head, twisting the miscellaneous drama class head", "the name of the incense four sacred things".

From the Yuan Dynasty Zhou Deqing's "Central Plains Rhyme", the Ming Dynasty He Liangjun's "Siyouzhai Series" to the modern Wang Guowei's "Song and Yuan Opera History", they all listed him as the "Yuan Qu four" first. Gao Wenxiu, a famous writer of miscellaneous operas, was called "small Hanqing", and Shen Hefu, a famous Hangzhou writer, was called "barbarian Hanqing", which shows that Guan Hanqing had enjoyed a high status at that time.