The Rise of the Big Realm——Appraisement About LI Danchu's Theory and Practice of "New Sanqu" Literature Creation
Li Danchu's exploration of the creation of contemporary Sanqu is manifested in two aspects.First,he pro-posed the concept of"New Sanqu",which holds that all the Sanqu opera works created by contemporary authors re-flecting modern life including free Sanqu,self-prescribed Sanqu and antique Sanqu,written either according to the traditional melody or not strictly according to the traditional melody,should be uniformly called"New Sanqu".Sec-ond,it makes a valuable systematic exploration on the aesthetic dimensions of"New Sanqu",including the macro aesthetic,micro aesthetic,aesthetic orientation and aesthetic dialectics.Li Danchu's"New Sanqu"has won the sec-ond prize of the first Huaxia Poetry Award and the first prize of the second Huaxia Poetry Award of the Chinese Shi-ci Society.His theoretical and practical achievements in the creation of"New Sanqu"have been written into the History of Contemporary Shici,edited and published by Chinese Shici Magazine,realizing his ambition of written in-to the History.