China News Service, Taiyuan, February 6th (Yang Jieying and Zhang Yun) "This is the only handwriting of Wang Shifu's opera creation found in China. It has extremely high literature value and art collection value. It is a milestone in the history of Chinese drama development. It is even more important. It is a rare copy of the original Yuan opera at home and abroad." Lei Jiande, a cultural scholar of the classic Chinese love novel "The Romance of the West Chamber" and a cultural consultant of Shanxi Pujiu Temple, said on the 6th.
Recently, the color illustration of "Authentic Handwriting of Wang Xixiang" sponsored by "Ray Xixiang Studio" is being exhibited in Auckland, New Zealand, the world's "Sail Capital".
Wang Shifu's original handwriting of "The Romance of the West Chamber".
Photo by Lei Jiande
Lei Jiande introduced that the color illustrations of the manuscript of "The Romance of the West Chamber" exhibited this time are the original handwriting of the famous playwright Wang Shifu in the Yuan Dynasty when he created it. Currently, the domestic industry respectfully calls it "Wang Shifu's manuscript".
The color picture shows that the manuscript of Wang Shifu's "Romance of the West Chamber" was created on jute paper, and each half page is 23.2 cm long and 13.8 cm wide.
"What's even more valuable is that there are also two pieces of precious Qianshan paper fragments in the manuscript. The quality of the paper is different from that of the manuscript, which can prove that they were both written and revised by Wang Shifu at that time." Lei Jiande said, According to statistics, this precious manuscript of "The Romance of the West Chamber" has a 22% discount, which is 20% more than the existing version (20% off).
Lei Jiande said that relevant experts determined that the book was originally in the collection of the royal palace in the early Qing Dynasty. A domestic collector funded the purchase of the collection.
Wang Shifu's original handwriting of "The Romance of the West Chamber".
Photo by Lei Jiande
Among the many drama writers of Yuan Dynasty, Wang Shifu is famous in the drama world because of "The Romance of the West Chamber", and he is called "Wang Xixiang".
The literati of all dynasties are particularly fond of Wang Shifu's "The Romance of the West Chamber". There are no less than a hundred kinds of Ming and Qing engraved editions, and it is the crown of classical dramas.
Overseas translations include Latin, English, French, German, Russian, Italian, Japanese, etc., with influence all over the world.
Talking about future plans, Lei Jiande said that he will continue to collect and organize overseas encyclopedias' comments on "The Romance of the West Chamber", and conduct in-depth research and comparison of the classical love stories of "The Romance of the West Chamber" with Western love stories, so that more people can feel the traditional Chinese love story. The charm of love culture.
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