Exploration of the Sources of Gun Words and Their Content Points
The flourishing of"Gun words"of Qingyangqiang Opera is a product of adapting to the"popular"interest of opera and legend in the context of folk performance.Taking the selected operas in the Wanli reign of Ming Dynasty as the main material,we examine their sources,analyze their forms and contents,as well as their correlation with the contents of their repertoire.We can see that these rolling words derived from poems,common sayings and set phrases have their own unique contents and aesthetic directions,which not only emphasize the"suffering-education"of the lower class people,but also reveal that the lower class literati consciously or unconsciously departed from the"popu-lar"purpose of Gun words in the creation of the Gun words.It also reveals that the lower literati,in the creation of the Gun words,intentionally or unintentionally deviated from the purpose of the Gun words"from vulgarity",which undermined and disintegrated the closeness of the Gun words and the plot of the opera to a certain extent.