The Adaptation of"San Yan Drama"in the Ming and Qing Dynasties with Potential Ethical Practice
"San Yan Opera"is an adaptation of the late Ming classic vernacular novel collection"San Yan"by a group of op-era writers in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.Opera writers add and delete ethical content in novels,and add"Kejie"pos-tures to regulate the ethical atmosphere.At the same time,the performative and oral nature of traditional Chinese opera has influ-enced the formation and modification of symbolic narratives in the text.In fact,the ethical variation in these symbolic narratives is an overlooked implicit narrative force.From the perspective of literary ethical criticism,it can be seen that in the"San Yan Opera",the implicit ethical narrative represented by Ke Jie conflicts with the ethics in the explicit narrative.For the recipients of opera texts,the dual attributes of the text stage and desk determine significant differences in their narrative and reception methods,indirectly leading to the formation of this narrative conflict.In addition,the symbolization based on the conflict between social morality and ethics also reflects the profound influence of Ming and Qing visual culture on literary narrative.