Top Ten Tragic Legends of Ancient China

Author: Di Qichong
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Publish Date: 2002-10-01
Features: Ancient Chinese Drama, a rare gem in the garden of Chinese classical literary arts. It not only captivates modern and ancient audiences and readers with its profound thoughts, extensive content, complex themes, and enigmatic plot structures, but also stands as a treasure in the treasury of Chinese literary arts due to its elegant wording, refined rhythms, and exquisite musical melodies. Since the publication of dramatic scripts during the Yuan Dynasty, dramatic literature has taken bold strides in the field of Chinese literature, shining with its unique form and brilliant splendor, glorifying generations. Unfortunately, due to the passage of time and the obscurity of ancient scripts and methods, ancient opera scripts have posed significant reading difficulties for contemporary readers, making this part of literary art a treasure that most readers can only keep on the shelf and avoid. Adding to this, the abundance of singing lyrics in Chinese drama, with their strictly regulated poetic and musical formats, not only increases reading difficulties for modern readers but also disrupts the coherence of the storyline to some extent, directly affecting readers' interest in reading. To provide readers with a comprehensive understanding of outstanding representative works of ancient Chinese dramatic literature and a general grasp of the plots and characters in the scripts, allowing this part of Chinese literary art to be popularized and flourish among the masses, we have selected the "Collected Ten Classical Tragedies of China" and "Collected Ten Classical Comedies of China" edited by Mr. Wang Jisi and others as the basis to write twenty romance novels named after the original plays.