Wang Jisi

Wang Jisi

Wang Jisi (1906-1996), whose scientific name is Wang Qi, is a character of Ji Si and a character line. His pen names are Xiaomi, zhicao, menggan, zaichen and Qiren, and his room name is yulunxuan. His ancestral home is yongchangbao, Yongzhong street, Longwan District, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province. Born in Wenzhou, the birthplace of Nanxi, Yongjia, Zhejiang Province, has loved opera since childhood. As a famous drama historian and literary historian, Wang Jisi has a lot of works on drama research. He reorganized the notes to the west chamber and led his disciple Su Huan to annotate the legend of Peach Blossom Fan. He has successively edited the history of Chinese literature, the collection of ten Chinese classical tragedies and the collection of ten Chinese classical comedies. Many of his works have been translated into Japanese and Indonesian, which has a great influence in the academic circles at home and abroad and is known as "the last cultural soul of Lingnan culture".

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Wang Jisi (1906-1996) is one of the most influential opera experts in contemporary China. His original name is Wang Qi, and his name is Ji Si. His pen names are Xiaomi, zhicao, menggan, zaichen and Qiren. His ancestral home is yongchangbao, Yongzhong street, Longwan District, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province. Born on January 7, 1906 in Shangtian village, Wulong, Yongjia (now in Ouhai District), a scholarly family. Since childhood, he has been familiar with classics and history, and loves to read operas and novels. He was admitted to Zhejiang provincial No.10 middle school before he graduated from primary school, in order to oppose "Article 21" and boycott Japanese products being dropped out of school. After that, he transferred to Ruian middle school. In 1925, he was admitted to the Chinese Department of Southeast University. He joined Wu Mei's club and began to write Ci and Sanqu. Under the guidance of Wen Yiduo, he organized Chunni club with Chen chuhuai from the foreign languages department and engaged in drama and new poetry creation.

After graduating from university in 1929, he began to teach in No.10 middle school of Zhejiang Province, and then taught in Songjiang women's Middle School of Jiangsu Province. During his six years in Songjiang, he accumulated a large number of materials for studying Yuanqu. After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese War, Songhu fell into the enemy's hands and returned to the south in a hurry. In Yongjia, she devoted herself to the Anti Japanese and national salvation work, went deep into the countryside and mountainous areas for propaganda, and supported Mei Jingxiang and her nephew Chen Guifang to join the eighth Route Army in Taihang Mountain. Later, he went to Chuzhou middle school to teach and wrote a lot of Anti Japanese war poems. In 1941, he published his poetry anthology Yue Feng in Jinhua.

In the early 1940s, he taught at Longquan branch of Zhejiang University and insisted on teaching, reading and singing under extremely difficult conditions. After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, he taught in Zhejiang University and Zhijiang College of literature, and devoted himself to the study of the history of Chinese literature and Yuan people's zaju.

Since the founding of the people's Republic of China, he has been teaching in Sun Yat sen University. He has successively served as the director of Chinese Department, director of classical literature teaching and research section, deputy director of School Affairs Committee, doctoral supervisor, member of literature discipline appraisal group of Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, deputy director of opera volume sub Editorial Committee of encyclopedia, etc., and has been elected as the chairman of Guangzhou Municipal Committee and vice chairman of Guangdong Provincial Committee of NLD.

He has been a teacher for 70 years. In teaching and research, we should pay special attention to the cultivation of rising stars, be diligent in studying and write. He is one of the most influential opera experts in contemporary China. In addition to the above-mentioned "notes to the five operas of the Western Chamber" and "Ji Ping Xiao Zhu Xi Xiang Ji", there are also "notes to the Peach Blossom Fan", "Ten Chinese classical tragedies", "Ten Chinese classical comedies", "selections of Yuan zaju", "selections of yuan Sanqu", "selections of Chinese opera", "selections of Quan Yuan Qu", "new comments on Wang Lunxuan's opera" and "selections of Wang Jisi's academic works".

He died in the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical College on April 6, 1996.

background information

Wang Jisi, a famous dramatist. Born on January 7, 1906 in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province. Wenzhou is the birthplace of southern opera in the history of Chinese drama. Wang Jisi has been fond of music since he was a child, and often goes to see social opera privately. He was admitted to Zhejiang No.10 middle school before he graduated from primary school. At that time, he lived in Mr. Sun Yirang's home. Sun Yirang was a famous scholar in the late Qing Dynasty. His family had a rich collection of books. Wang Jisi's rigorous academic attitude was nurtured by sun Yirang and other scholars.

In August 1924, Wang Ji thought about joining the Chinese Department of Nanjing Southeast University. Wu Mei, a master of Quxue, was setting up a course of Ci and Qu in the school, which greatly enlightened Wang Jisi. Wang Jisi also went to Wu Mei's "Baijiabao" library, where there are more than 100 kinds of Ming dynasty legends. Wang Jisi read many ancient plays here. Wu Mei's teaching determined Wang Jisi's goal of lifelong study. During his college years, Wang Jisi participated in the literary society organized by Wu Mei and engaged in the writing of poems and songs. He has close contacts with his classmates Tang Guizhang and Chang Renxia. Wang Jisi also organized the qingni society with his foreign language classmates Chen chuhuai and Fang Weide. Under the guidance of Wen Yiduo, Wang Jisi was engaged in the creation of drama and new poetry.

In 1925, he was admitted to the literature department of Southeast University, studied in Wu Mei, and engaged in drama research. In 1941, he succeeded Zhejiang University, Zhijiang University of Arts and science, Sun Yat sen University, member of the ancient books sorting and planning group of the State Council, and member of the first discipline appraisal group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council. In 1962, he was engaged by the Ministry of education to edit the history of Chinese literature together with professor you Guoen. He wrote the proofs and notes of Peach Blossom Fan, Wang Jisi's poetry anthology, on Yu Lunxuan's music, and on Yu Lunxuan's classical literature. He also edited the collection of China's top ten classical tragedies, the collection of China's top ten classical comedies, selected Chinese operas, and selected Sanqu of yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties He is one of the experts in Chinese opera.

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He was born in 1906 in a scholarly family in Shangtian village, Wulong, Yongjia. Since childhood, he has been familiar with classics and history, and loves to read operas and novels.

Later, he transferred to Ruian middle school and stayed with Dai Jiaxiang in the same village at sun Yirang's home. He had access to the Yuhai building collection and was influenced by his predecessors' rigorous scholarship.

From 1922 to 1924, Wang Jisi taught in Yongjia Wulong primary school.

In 1925, at the age of 19, Mr. Wang was admitted to the Chinese Department of Nanjing Southeast University and began to study ancient Chinese Opera under the guidance of Wu Mei, a master of Quxue. At the same time, he participated in the "hidden society" organized by Wu Mei, engaged in the creation of poetry and Sanqu, and had close contacts with Tang Guizhang and Chang Renxia. Under the guidance of Mr. Wen Yiduo, he was engaged in the creation of drama and new poetry.

In the spring of 1927, he taught in Ouhai middle school in Wenzhou, and was arrested during Chiang Kai Shek's April 12 counter revolutionary coup for publicizing the Manifesto of the first National Congress of the Kuomintang and opposing the Xishan conference faction. After being released on bail by relatives and friends, he returned to Nanjing to study.

In 1929, Wang Jisi was 24 years old. After graduating from Central University, he taught in several middle schools in Zhejiang, Anhui and Jiangsu, among which he taught in Songjiang women's middle school for the longest time. After five years of teaching in Songjiang, Wang Jisi cut down on food and clothing, bought books, and bought a lot of opera books. On the one hand, he taught, on the other hand, he studied traditional operas, or abstracted the dialectal sayings of Yuan opera, or researched the origin and development of the script. Some of them were made into cards, and some of them were transferred to books.

In 1941, he published his poetry anthology Yue Feng in Jinhua.

At the end of 1980s, Wang Jisi was in Guangzhou Sun Yat sen University

Since 1940s, Wang Jisi has been teaching in Longquan branch of Zhejiang University, headquarters of Zhejiang University and Zhijiang University of Hangzhou, and devoted himself to the study of Chinese literary history and Yuan zaju.

In 1944, "notes to the five plays in the Western Chamber" was published by Zhejiang Longyin book house, which is a famous work of Wang Jisi.

In 1948, he was a professor of Sun Yat sen University in Guangzhou, and continued to engage in the teaching of classical literature and the study of ancient opera. In the summer of 1948, Wang Jisi was transferred from Hangzhou Zhijiang College of Arts and science to the Chinese Department of Sun Yat sen University, Guangzhou, to teach the history of Chinese literature and drama.

In 1961, Wang Jisi was engaged by the Ministry of education of the people's Republic of China at that time to edit the history of Chinese literature with professor you Guoen of Peking University for three years.

In 1965, four fifths of the stomach was cut off because of an ulcer.

During the cultural revolution, Wang Jisi was accused of "reactionary academic authority", cruelly persecuted, and his ribs were broken. Later, he was sent to the cadre school. For a time, there were only two pieces of Sufu for each meal, but he enjoyed it.

In the spring of 1980, the Ministry of education entrusted Wang Jisi to preside over the "history of Chinese opera" teacher training class. When he learned that Ning Xiyuan, a student of the training class and a teacher of Lanzhou University, was writing the manuscript of "thirty kinds of Yuan zaju new school", he provided Ning Xiyuan with the information he had accumulated for many years about "thirty kinds of Yuan zaju".

After 80 years old, Wang Jisi is still diligent in writing, personally guiding doctoral students, and also editing the national key scientific research project Quanyuan opera.

In 1987, Mr. Wang went to Beijing to attend the International Symposium on Chinese opera art.

He died on April 6, 1996.

Academic contribution

Research on drama and traditional Chinese opera

Wang Jisi has made remarkable academic achievements. In the 1950s, he tried to analyze the works of ancient Chinese writers with Marxist theory of literature and art. His representative works are from Yingying biography to Xixiangji, the fighting spirit of Guan Hanqing's zaju, the preface of taohuafan proofreading and annotation, etc. His research on the romance of the west chamber has established its position in the academic circle. In 1944, Wang Jisi's "notes to the five operas of the Western Chamber" was published, which aroused strong repercussions in the academic circles. Since then, it has been reprinted many times, with more than 200000 copies printed. This book not only caused "the whirlwind of the Western Chamber" in China, but also caused repercussions in Japan. Japan once specially compiled "proofreading notes" into a book as a learning textbook.

After the cultural revolution, he was entrusted by the Ministry of education to hold a national seminar on ancient operas for young and middle-aged college teachers. He edited the collection of China's top ten classical tragedies and the collection of China's top ten classical comedies, which made a solid step towards exploring the aesthetic characteristics of national operas. Mr. Wang pointed out that the characteristics of Chinese classical tragedies are as follows: first, compared with western tragedies, the protagonists of Chinese ancient tragedies are often ordinary working women; second, the moral tendency of Chinese tragedies is more obvious than that of western tragedies, and aesthetic education plays an important role

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