Artistic Achievements of The Story of the Western Wing

Artistic Achievements of The Story of the Western Wing:

1. The structure of The Story of the Western Wing is grand and compact, strict and skillful, presenting a complex appearance of crisscrossing and tumbling. In "The Story of the Western Chamber", two clues of two conflicts are intertwined and constrained by each other: one is the conflict between Yingying, Zhangsheng and Hongniang on the one hand and the old lady on the other hand, which is the main line running through the whole play; and the second is the conflict of character between Yingying, Zhangsheng and Hongniang, which constitutes the auxiliary line of the work. The two clues have main and secondary, parallel intertwined, so that the conflicts between each other can be fully unfolded, which strongly promotes the development of the plot, and also makes the characters more full and vivid. The author is also good at using suspense to weave the plot, cleverly set up a series of suspense such as "Lai marriage", "pay Jane", "crying feast", etc., which can be said to be a wave yet to be leveled, a wave again and again, twists and turns, heart-wrenching, enhancing the work.

2. The characters of The Story of the Western Wing are distinctive and full of flesh and blood, and they have been successfully portrayed as Yingying, Zhangsheng, Hongniang, the old lady, and other dramatic archetypes. First of all, the author is good at shaping characters through intricate dramatic conflicts, achieving the perfect unity of character and dramatic conflicts. Secondly, the author is good at revealing the characters' character through the description of psychological activities, which is exquisite and meticulous, thus greatly exploring the hidden and mysterious inner world of the characters. Finally, the author is also good at portraying characters through action descriptions. Most of the actions of the characters in The Story of the Western Chamber are not very complicated, but they can well reveal the characters' mental conditions and psychological postures, and they are rich in subtext.

3. The language of "The Story of the Western Wing" is natural and gorgeous, elegant and rich, with a unique style of rich poetry and full of interest. The author is good at melting the simple and lively folk spoken language and refined and meaningful poetic language together, elegance and vulgarity in parallel, vernacular and literate, lively and elegant and fresh; many of the lyrics in the Story of the Western Wing are good at rendering the atmosphere, creating a poetic mood, with a strong lyrical meaning; the language of the characters in the Story of the Western Wing is also highly personalized and fully dramatized, perfectly suited to the identity of the dramatic characters, The language of the characters in The West Wing is also highly personalized and fully dramatized, perfectly suited to the identity, status, upbringing and personality of the characters, such as Yingying's charming language, Zhangsheng's elegant and passionate language, Hongniang's lively and spirited language, and Huiming's rough and brash language, all of which are appropriately expressed. Wang Shizhen called "The Story of the Western Chamber" a "scroll-opening" work of the Northern Opera, and Wang Shifu is indeed a typical model of the Literary School.

Additionally, "The Story of the Western Wing" is an innovation in the system of miscellaneous operas. It breaks the common practice of Yuan miscellaneous dramas of one book of four folds, plus a wedge, and is a large-scale serialized miscellaneous drama consisting of five books of twenty folds. It also breaks the rule that each fold can only be sung by one person in the end, when necessary, a fold of the play can be sung in turn. The innovation of the system, greatly enriched the artistic expression of the drama