| Abstract |
The founder of the Wang's School, Mr Wang Hsiao-nung, was a nationalistic play writer during the latter period of the Ching Dynasty. His works expressed patriotic sentiment. He improved the Peking Operas and established the Wang's performance style. As far as I know, he had created more than forty-seven kinds of repertoires, and each of them became popular in his age. His motif implied his perspective of music dramas; that is, to cultivate civil, to encourage nationalism, and to inspire admirable consonance. He was devoted to he innovation of Peking operas, including the tunes, the dialogues, the rhymes, and the singing styles. He simplified some of the specific patterns on stage performance and increased long narratives to enrich the contents of the story. He invented a unique singing style of "explosive sound", combined with graceful and sophisticated expressions and gestures, to highlight the role's character and to make powerful and emotional effects. His plays appealed to the classes as well as the ordinary people. He was undoubtedly the model of Chinese traditional dramas.
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