关于戏曲本体论问题与叶朗、施旭升和李伟等先生对话

Conversation on Theatre Ontology among Mr. Ye Lang,Mr. Shi Xu,and Mr. Li Wei

"形式因"对戏曲艺术这种纯粹的艺术样式而言是最重要的。形式自身就具有一种审美意蕴。所谓"内容"是充分包含了成熟的形式因在内的。京剧艺术是发展得最完善、最纯粹的一种艺术样式,它是充分的用形式消灭了它的内容而生成的最高审美的观念艺术。梅兰芳访问苏联是中国戏曲艺术审美观念真正影响西方戏剧向"东"看的开端。中国传统戏曲艺术的主要性质并不是以歌舞演故事,而是将已真相大白的故事梗概加以极其复杂化、艰奥化、美轮美奂的唱念做(舞)打的审美呈现。由于深深受到了围绕在身边留学、游学西方的文人价值观念的影响,无论从剧目还是表演理念上看,梅兰芳的京剧表演很大程度上已经不是传统意义上的古典艺术。

Form is the most significant to theatre art. Form itself has its own aesthetic connotation. In fact,content is something that sufficiently contains mature forms. Peking opera is an art that develops the most perfect and purest.And it sufficiently use the form to wipe out its content and thus to generate the highest aesthetic conceptual art. After Mei Lanfang interviewed the Soviet Union,Western theatre began to be truly impacted by Chinese theatre art and aesthetics. As regards to traditional Chinese theatre art,it does not perform story with singing and dancing,but it aesthetically represents the well- known story with extremely complex,difficult,and beautiful singing,speaking,dancing,and acrobatic fighting. Profoundly impacted by literati who once studied abroad,Mei Lanfang＇s performance is no longer a classical art in traditional sense to a great extent either in play or performance concept.