Author(s)

Cui Shangtong

Corresponding Author

Cui Shangtong

Abstract

The Ming and Qing dynasties was regarded as the study period and the garden culture as the visual angle of view, so the developments of opera and garden culture were regarded as the whole for the integral study among the disciplines. This paper was about the study of the relationship between opera and garden culture in the Ming and Qing dynasties. The innovation lied in that it was not necessary to make a rational inquiry into the traceability from the perspective of historiography, nor did it mean to make some artistic explanations from the perspective of art and architecture, but the relationship between the two was regarded as a spiritual phenomenon. The paper tried to explain how the garden of the Ming and Qing Dynasties was presupposed as the poet imprinting poetic premises of scholars, the opera of the Ming and Qing dynasties in what form fit the cultural taste and aesthetic taste of scholars who inhabited in the garden, how the opera in the garden and the garden in the opera interacted with each other and reflected the life consciousness and spiritual pursuit of the scholars and how the ups and downs of scholars' garden lives had influenced the development of the opera ecology and its evolution. Scholastic cultural traditions and their spiritual pursuit were taken as the main lines of thought to start the study.

Keywords

Ming and Qing Dynasties, Opera, Garden Culture, Scholars, Aesthetic Taste.