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This chapter begins with a brief treatment of the southern drama of the Yuan dynasty, and then, in keeping with the greater proportion of information available, it concentrates on the development of Yuan zaju. Southern Plays.  “Southern plays” (nanxi) is the term now usually used for this genre.  All the village listens to Cai Zhonglang singing.  Many songs from Song, Yuan, or early Ming southern plays survive.  The History of the Yuan of 1370 records that when the Jin regions surrendered to the Mongol general Muqali (d.

This chapter begins with a brief treatment of the southern drama of the Yuan dynasty, and then, in keeping with the greater proportion of information available, it concentrates on the development of Yuan zaju. Southern Plays.  “Southern plays” (nanxi) is the term now usually used for this genre.  All the village listens to Cai Zhonglang singing.  Many songs from Song, Yuan, or early Ming southern plays survive.  The History of the Yuan of 1370 records that when the Jin regions surrendered to the Mongol general Muqali (d.

Moreover, given the complexity of the qu song prosody, it seems likely that his alterations of the core poetry of the plays cannot have been so extensive as to deny posterity a fairly accurate insight into original Yuan compositions, which in any case might not have survived but for him.  Basically Zhong's lists of authors divide into two broad periods: those of the early Yuan, about 1220–1300, and those of his own, mid­Yuan time, about 1260–1340.  Most seem to have been born in the late Yuan, approximately from 1300 to 1350, and worked in the period from about 1300 to 1420 or so.

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