“专写钗盒情缘”——《长生殿》怎样写“情”

A special way of expressing love in The Changsheng Palace

洪在《长生殿例言》中所说的“专写钗盒情缘”,有着丰富的内涵,可以看成《长生殿》的总体构思,戏剧情节即围绕这一总体构思来展开。作为情节推进的标志,吴舒凫指出“钗盒”在剧中出现了八次,其实远不止此,而“钗盒”的每一次出现,都伴随着李、杨爱情的净化和深化,最终完满地表现了《长生殿》的爱情理想。

Hong Sheng said in the foreword to his play The Changsheng Palace that he focused on describing the hairpin box in the love story.This principle rich in connotation can be regarded as the overall composition of the play.As the mark of the development of plots,the hairpin box is believed to appear eight times in the whole play(actually more than that).Each appearance of the hairpin box is accompanied by the purification and deepening of love between the hero and heroine,making the play an perfect expression of ideal love.