Recently, Gao Chaoxian, a poet and retired cadre of Hukou County, Jiangxi Province, created the first book on the theory of Southern Sanqu in the modern and contemporary era of the mainland in the past five years, which has been officially published by the China Book Publishing House and distributed to Xinhua Bookstores nationwide.
The author of the book, Gao Chaoxian, is now a retired cadre, a member of the Chinese Poetry Society, a researcher of the Chinese Poetry Research Institute, and the former vice president of the Shizhongshan Poetry Society in Hukou County, who has long been committed to the creation of poetry and its theoretical research.
"Introduction to Nansanqu", formerly known as "Introduction to the Basics of Nansanqu and Writing Practice", is a tool book that teaches the basic theory and basic knowledge of Composition of Nanshanqu. With concise and bright writing, the author expounds the historical facts of the origin and development of Nansanqu, introduces the art of Nansanqu and its creation in the form of comparing the two songs of the South and the North, and attaches the music score of "Nanqu Jiugong Zhengshi" and the rhyme score of "Hongwu Zhengyun" at the back of the book, which provides convenience for Nanqu lovers to create Nanqu. The book consists of more than 300,000 words.
"Introduction to Nansanqu" was produced in Jiangnan Hukou, which is known as the "hometown of Chinese folk art", "the hometown of opera" and "the hometown of Chinese poetry", which has certain value and significance for promoting local civilization and doing a good job in excavating, protecting and inheriting ancient books in the new era of locality.
Nanqu was born at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, formed and flourished in the early Southern Song Dynasty, more than 100 years before the formation of Northern Qu. Nanqu Nanqu is the ancestor of mainland opera and is popular to this day; as a literary style, Nanshanqu, like Beishanqu, is also an excellent traditional culture of the mainland, which has been passed down through the generations. Only because of the influence of the historical "North Respect and Southern Inferiority", as well as the difference in the system and popularity of the song system, the southern scattered music has been circulated less in modern times than the northern scattered music, especially since modern times, the southern scattered music has become almost extinct in the more common "theory of extinction". In order to excavate and carry forward the excellent traditional culture of the nation, the author of the book adheres to the concept that Tang poetry, Song Ci and Yuanqu are the three artistic peaks of mainland classical poetry, and in view of the theory of the "demise" of Nanqu, a large number of historical and practical facts have been used to prove the immortal inheritance of Nanqu and its unique national cultural characteristics, pointing out that the southern and northern two songs are inseparable from the nationalization of yuanqu, and promoting nanqu is of important historical and practical significance for inheriting the intangible cultural heritage of the mainland, enhancing national cultural self-confidence and promoting cultural construction in the new era. (Yin Meisheng)