“知识精英”与“大众文化”:关于民国时期知识分子对河南梆子改良的考察

"The Intellectual Elite" and "the Mass Culture":A Study about the Melioration of Henan Bangzi Engaged in by Intellectuals in the Period of the Republic of China

在晚清时期,戏曲因其通俗性及普及性的特点,开始受到知识分子的普遍关注。他们希图通过对戏曲的改良,达到启蒙社会的目的,于是发起了一场戏曲改良运动。河南的戏曲改良,晚清初见端倪,到民国时期才有较大发展。河南梆子主要流行于农村和下层社会,民国时期知识分子看到其普及的优点,对其进行了全面革新,使其变成一个重要的地方剧种。在梆戏改良过程中女演员大量登台,她们精湛的表演使其社会地位大大提高。

In late Qing Dynasty,drama,featured with popularity and public,began to catch eyes on intellectuals.They attempted to enlighten society by reforming drama.Therefore,they launched a reforming drama movement.The reform of drama just began to take shape in late Qing Dynasty,and it developed greatly until the period of the republic of China.Henan Bangzi was mainly popular with villages and low-class society.In the period of the republic of China,intellectuals found the advantage of its pervasion and carried on a whole reform,making it become an important local type of drama.During the process of melioration,many actresses performed on the stage,whose exquisite performance enhanced greatly their social status.