Ma Zhiyuan (about 1250—— about 132 1 to 1324) was a famous dramatist and Sanqu writer in Yuan Dynasty. His time was later than that of Guan Hanqing, Bai Pu and others. His birth year was about 1250, and his death year was about 132 1 year from the reform of Yuan Dynasty to the first year of Taiding. He, Guan Hanqing, Zheng Guangzu and Bai Pu are also called "four outstanding figures of Yuan Opera".
Guan Hanqing (drama writer in Yuan Dynasty)
Guan Hanqing (1219-1301year), the founder and playwright of Yuan Zaju, was the first of the "Four Masters of Yuan Zaju". The evening number has been borrowed (one name is A Borrow), and it has been borrowed. Han nationality, Xiezhou people (now Yuncheng, Shanxi), native of Dadu (now Beijing), Zhou Qi people (now anguo city, Hebei), etc. Together with Bai Pu, Ma Zhiyuan and Zheng Guangzu, they are also called "the four masters of Yuanqu". [1] Zaju has achieved the greatest success. There are 67 known ones and 18 existing ones. Whether individual works were written by him is still inconclusive. The most famous is Yuan. Guan Hanqing has also written many historical dramas, such as single knife meeting, single whip, West Shu dream and so on. Now there are more than 40 pieces of Sanqu, 10 sets. His Sanqu is rich in content, fresh and vigorous in style and of high artistic value. Guan Hanqing's image of "I am a copper pea that can't be steamed, boiled, boiled, fried or cracked" ("I am not old") is also widely known, and is known as "Qusheng".
Zheng Guangzu
Zheng Guangzu was born in the early Yuan Dynasty (namely 1264) [1], whose real name was Dehui, Han nationality, a famous composer of zaju and Sanqu in Yuan Dynasty, and a native of Xiangling, Pingyang (now Xiangfen County, Linfen City, Shanxi Province).
Zheng Guangzu was influenced by the art of drama since he was a child, and enjoyed a high reputation when he was young. But his main activity was in the south (Hangzhou), and he became a giant in the southern opera circle. At that time, his zaju was "famous in the world, and there was sound in the boudoir." Deqing, zhou yuan praised Zheng Guangzu's literary work "The Rhyme of the Central Plains" and juxtaposed him with Guan Hanqing, Ma Zhiyuan and Bai Pu. Later generations collectively called him "the four masters of Yuan Opera".
Bai Pu
Bai Pu (1226—— about 1306), whose original name was Heng, whose word was Renfu, was later renamed Park, whose word was Yuan. Han nationality, whose ancestral home is qi zhou (now Hequ, Shanxi Province), and some data show that it may be Quwo County, Shanxi Province, built Baiputa for him. Later, he moved to Calm (now Zhengding County, Hebei Province) and lived in Jinling (now Nanjing) in his later years. He was a famous zaju writer in the Yuan Dynasty, and he was also known as the four great writers of Yuan Qu with Guan Hanqing, Ma Zhiyuan and Zheng Guangzu (the other writers were Guan Hanqing, Ma Zhiyuan, Wang Shifu and Bai Pu [1]). His representative works mainly include Autumn Night Rain by Tang, Coming to the Great Wall by Pei, and Moonlit Night on the East Wall by Dong Xiuying.