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Synopsis of the Ten Greatest Chinese Comedy Stories

Saving the Wind and Dust

On the Wall

The Tale of the Western Chamber

Li Kui Takes a Bramble

Looking at the Slave of Money

Moon Worshipping

The Jade Hairpin

Wolf of the Central Mountain

The Kite Mistake

Green Peonies Drama is the classical and traditional culture and art in China, and it is also the most enjoyable art of the common people. It is also the most popular form of art among the common people. Over the centuries, people have been very familiar with many excellent plays, and some of the characters portrayed in the plays have long been household names and well known to women and children, such as Hongniang in The West Wing and Li Kui in Li Kui Takes a Bramble, both of whom have been active on the stage.

China's theater sprouted in the pre-Qin period, in the Han and Tang dynasties when the first embryonic, Song and Jin time to become more mature, and to the Yuan and Ming time to reach its peak, so the Yuan and Ming period is China's theater boom period.

In the hundreds of varied dramatic works, comedy is the most popular, the introduction of hilarious plays, which embodies the conflict can be resolved, the content of most of the unusual, comical and ridiculous events depicted and expressed, and ultimately the end of the reunion, to meet the majority of the people in the heart of the reunion of the desire.

China's classical comedies have national characteristics and reflect the life of ancient society. The stories depicted therein are righteous eulogies, bold satires, well-intentioned banter and outspoken denunciations. Therefore, according to the different contents and main themes, China's comedies are roughly divided into two categories, one focusing on the affirmation of the praise and praise of the praise comedy, and the other focusing on the denial of the satirical comedies and criticisms.

Glorious comedies mostly glorify love, justice, and the resistance of the working people to oppression, and one can see in these dramas a vivid and glorious character who fights for life and ideals. Satirical comedy is to negate the stereotypes, expose the ugliness of the negative characters, playwrights to laugh and scold the attitude of some ridiculous and despicable characters of the character, action, attitude portrayed to the fullest, so that people can see the comical stupidity, to get a smile.