The work that has been hailed as the new "Official Appearance" is the "Promotion Chart". The three-act satirical comedy "The Picture of the Promotion" was written in 1945 and shows a "hundred ugly pictures" that satirize the officialdom.
Written in 1945, "The Picture of Promotion" shows a "hundred ugly pictures" that satirize the officialdom, the author consciously pushes the time of the story in the play forward to the early years of the Republic of China, pretending that the two robbers are in a dream, vividly exposing and satirizing the commonalities of corruption and bribery of large and small officials, arbitrary expropriation, self-deception, power and money trading, and no evil, exposing the erosion of the entire social system and bureaucracy and the reactionary nature of oppressing the people, showing the strength and depth of criticism.
"The Elevation Chart" marks the peak of Chen Baichen's comedy art, and also represents the highest level of development of modern Chinese comedy at that time, thus establishing the important position of political satire comedy in the history of modern Chinese drama and literature. The scene that runs through the play at the beginning and end of the play, in which the "old man" announces that "the chicken is crying that the sky is about to dawn", announcing the judgment of the righteous forces against the reactionaries, and foreshadowing the historical fate of the inevitable demise of the Corrupt Rule of the Kuomintang.
Chen Baichen' representative works include "Men and Women in troubled worlds", "Marriage March", "Year Cold Chart", "Promotion Chart" and so on. Chen Baichen has made unique contributions to satirical comedy and is known as the "Chinese Gogol".
The script "Promotion Figure" fully demonstrates the artistic achievements of satirical comedy with grotesque imagination and strong irony.
First of all, with the help of the dreams in the play, the work boldly and reasonably uses comedy techniques such as exaggeration, deformation, repetition, contrast, and coincidence, so that the social reality is fully funny and defamiliarized, so that the dream and reality, absurdity and reality are organically unified, so as to achieve the comedic effect of false and true.
Secondly, the script combines the caricature and characterization of the character image, and is good at showing their different comedic personalities according to the characters' self-contradictions and the mutual attacks of the group of uglies, so that they can tear apart various disguises in self-disclosure and mutual disclosure, and expose their shameless and despicable nature; at the same time, according to the character logic of the characters themselves, they show their different comedic personalities.
Third, the language of the script is popular and vivid, sharp and spicy, condensed and police, and a large number of parody, irony, and exaggeration techniques are used to enhance the comedic effect.
A brief analysis of the artistic techniques of the satirical drama of "The Elevation chart":
Using a unique conception, through an absurd dream, to achieve a pungent satire of reality.
It uses comic-style exaggeration. Sharp contrast, repetition, and the character's self-contradiction, mutual exposure and other means are combined to achieve the ironic effect of "false and true".
The language of the script is popular and vivid, sharp and spicy, condensed and police, and a large number of parody, irony and exaggeration are used to enhance the comedic effect.
A brief analysis of the theme meaning of Chen Baichen's drama "Elevation Diagram":
Set against the backdrop of the early years of the Republic of China, the story of two robbers rising in a dream exposes the erosion of the entire social system and bureaucracy.
It is not limited to describing individual phenomena of corruption, but vividly exposes and satirizes the social reality that officials and officials of all sizes are generally corrupt and pervert the law, arbitrarily levy and extort, deceive themselves, trade power for money, and do no evil.
The scene of the awakening and resistance of the masses of the people runs through the beginning and end, and finally announces the judgment of the righteous forces against the reactionary forces, indicating the historical fate of the inevitable demise of the corrupt system of the ruling class.
A brief analysis of the artistic characteristics of Chen Baichen's drama "Elevation Chart":
With the help of dreams, the social reality is fully comical and unfamiliar with grotesque imagination.
It uses comedic techniques such as irony, exaggeration, deformation, contrast, and coincidence.
The combination of caricature and characterization of the character image.
The language is lively and sharp.