“留与那万古千秋教人做话儿讲”——论王九思和康海对王兰卿的书写

The Writings of Wang Lan-qing by Wang Jiu-si and Kang Hai

王九思和康海分别以散曲和杂剧的形式,礼赞周至乐户女子王兰卿的爱情,同情其悲剧命运,塑造其忠贞爱情的美好形象和高洁品质,表现出可贵的人文关怀和进步思想,也为陕西秦腔人物保留了珍贵的史料。他们对才子佳人爱情的书写模式,在明代中晚期戏曲发展史上,似亦有津梁之功。

In the forms of Zaju(poetic drama set to music,flourishing in the Yuan Dynasty(1271-1368),usu.consisting of four acts called zhe(折),with one character having the singing role in each zhe)and Sanqu(a type of verse popular in the Yuan,Ming and Qing dynasties,with tonal patterns modelled on tunes drawn from folk music),Wang Jiu-si and Kang Hai praised the family woman Wang Lan-qing for her love.They not only showed sympathy for her tragic fate and shaped the good image of her loyalty to love and lofty quality,which expressed their valuable humanistic care and progressive thoughts,and left behind precious historical data for the Shaanxi opera characters.Their writing mode of the love of gifted scholars and beautiful ladies had a great impact on the development of opera in the late Ming Dynasty.