There were three reasons for Feng Menglong's adaptation of Zhang Fengyi's"Guanyuan Ji"as"New Guanyuan". Feng Menglong's experience as a Confucian scholar and his status as a literary figure led him to place great emphasis on the integration of themes of loyalty and filial piety in his dramatic works,as well as the coherence of textual logic and emotional structure."Guanyuan Ji"had a broad audience base and market space in the late Ming Dynasty,but it had significant literary and moral deficiencies that made it difficult to continue to be widely circulated. In the late Ming Dynasty,the society highly valued the educational function of opera and opposed descriptions that violated rituals and laws. Influenced by this,Feng Menglong would inevitably make changes to"Guanyuan Ji". The adapted"New Guanyuan"greatly compensated for the deficiencies of the original play,making it a work that conforms to moral requirements and the aesthetic tastes of the time. However,some have questioned "New Guanyuan"for over-emphasizing the theme of education,making significant changes to the original,and focusing more on stage performance. But taking all evaluations into consideration,Feng Men-glong's adaptation still has more"gains"than"losses",and the existence of"New Guanyuan"still holds a signifi-cant meaning.
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