In the history of our country, the poems and songs of the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty and the novels of the Ming and Qing Dynasties are all famous. Every dynasty has a different culture. In Yuan Dynasty, these songs were very popular. So who are the four most famous songwriters in Yuan Dynasty? They are Guan Hanqing, Bai Pu, Ma Zhiyuan and Zheng Guangzu. These four people represent the achievements of different schools in the creation of Yuan Zaju in different periods of the Yuan Dynasty, and are recognized as the "four masters of Yuan Qu" in history.
4. Zheng Guangzu
Zheng Guangzu was a native of Xiangling, Pingyang County in the early Yuan Dynasty. He was born in Dehui, Han nationality, and was also a famous essayist and zaju writer in Yuan Dynasty. Zheng Guangzu was influenced by drama art since he was a child, and has been devoted to the artistic activities of zaju ever since. Zheng Guangzu, who is mainly engaged in artistic activities in the south, is a giant in the field of southern opera. His Yuan Zaju is called "famous all over the world, resounding through the boudoir". His major works include Ghost Story, Wang Neng Climbing the Building, Unbreakable Chains, Prince Regent of the Duke of Zhou and so on.
3. Ma Zhiyuan
Ma Zhiyuan, a native of Yuan Dynasty, has two versions of his name, one is unknown, the word Zhiyuan, and the other is Dongli, the word Li Qian, whose ancestral home is Macitang Village, Dongguang County, Hebei Province. He was a famous dramatist, Sanqu writer and Zaju writer in ancient China, and was honored as "the immortal horse" by later generations. He wrote Tianjingsha Qiu Si.