男旦艺术文化心理管窥

On the Cultural Psychology of the Art of Actors who Act the Female Character Type in Chinese Operas

男旦艺术是远古“雌雄同体”神话原型的折射和映象 ,符合艺术创作中“双性同体”的心理机制。反串表述的民族审美心理是中国戏曲舞台上男旦艺术形成和发展的特定文化背景。梅兰芳为首的京剧男旦突破了魏长生时代男旦的表演局限而臻于极境。当今男旦艺术面临着断层的困境 。

The art of actors who act the female character type in Ch inese operas is a reflection of 'bisexual' mythological prototypes of remote antiquity, acc or ding with the mental mechanism of androgynism in art creation. The nation's aest hetic tendency to demonstrate by acting characters of the opposite sex formed an d developed the specific cultural background of this art. Under the lead of MEI Lanfang, female-character actors of Beijing Opera broke through the acting styl e of WEI Chang-sheng and reached the culmination of the art and the era. At pres e nt, notwithstanding the danger of discontinuation, the existence and th e development of this art is still rational and possible.