Modern Chinese literature "Returning to people on a snowy night"

"Returning to people on a snowy night" is a drama written by Wu Zuguang in 1942, which depicts the story of Wei Liansheng, a famous Peking opera singer, who broke through the vanity of life and fell in love with him under the inspiration and initiation of the bureaucrat's aunt Yuchun, but after the matter was discovered, Yuchun was sent away and Wei Liansheng was exiled. The prologue and epilogue explain the fate of the hero and heroine twenty years later.

The storyline of "Returning to the People in the Night of Wind and Snow" is based on the life encounter of a generation of famous Wei Liansheng, with the help of the love tragedy of Wei Liansheng and Yuchun, radiating out the clutch sorrow and joy of several characters around them. And thus show that behind the light and shallow smile, there is a sadness that the world cannot see; on the bottom of the wine green light, there is a bitterness that the world cannot understand.

Wu Zuguang's main representative works include the drama "Phoenix City", "Zhengqi Song", the commentary drama "Flower as The Medium", the Peking Opera "Three Dozen Tao Three Springs", etc., among which the rewritten film script of the commentary "Flower as the Medium" can be called a model of traditional drama renovation.

In the drama "Returning to the People on a Snowy Night", the main Peking Opera celebrity portrayed is Wei Liansheng. The play depicts the story of Wei Liansheng, a famous Peking opera singer, and his bureaucratic aunt who fell in love, was arrested, and was exiled to another country, and through the interpretation of the tragic and joyful love songs, sublimated the theme of human awakening, called for the awakening of self-consciousness, indicted the trampling of human dignity by evil forces, and criticized the insensitive and servile state of life.

The two words that make the drama "Wind and Snow Night Return" rich in meaning are folk discourse: portraying the love story of the hero and heroine according to the folk love model; enlightenment discourse: enlightenment and salvation of men by women. The scenes of the play set up scenes blend, and the wind and snow imagery of the prologue and the epilogue dot the atmosphere of tragedy and symbolize the raging wind and snow of life. The characters are full of poetic and idealized temperament, but they also write about the demise of life, the difficulty of love and the fall of ideals, rendering a desolate atmosphere. The whole play is full of poetry and far-reaching artistic conception.

A brief analysis of the theme meaning of Wu Zuguang's drama "Returning to the People in the Night of Wind and Snow":

The work narrates the tragic story of Wei Liansheng, a famous Peking opera singer who, inspired by the bureaucrat's aunt Yuchun, breaks through the vanity of life and falls in love with it.

Through the interpretation of the tragic love tragedy of sorrow and joy, the work sublimates the theme of human awakening and calls for the awakening of self-consciousness: it indicts the trampling of human dignity by traditional criminal and evil forces, and criticizes the insensitive and servile state of life.

Through the organic combination of folk discourse and Enlightenment discourse, the works jointly create a rich meaning.