Since ancient times, there have been many heroines in the history of China. In ancient times, Hua Mulan joined the army for her father and fought against the enemy. Today there are Qiu Jin and Jiang Xueqin who fought the enemy and saved the country and dared the revolution. Among them I admire most regret is revolutionary fighter - Jiang Xueqin. I know her heroic deeds from the opera "Jiang Jie".Jiang Xueqin's integrity, fearless of the heroic spirit of life and death make me impressed. The reactionaries who killed Jiang Xueqin made me even more resentful. Shen Yangzhai is the representative of the villain in the play. His evil image, which is malicious, wily, hiding a sword behind a smile and doing anything to achieve his goal, forms a sharp contrast with Jiang Xueqin. This paper will analyze Shen Yangzhai's status, background, role performance, music and other aspects, and try to restore a "flesh and blood, profound" character image.

Tianlong Jiang. On the characterization of Shen Yangzhai in the opera Jiang Jie. Frontiers in Art Research (2022) Vol. 4, Issue 2: 17-21. https://doi.org/10.25236/FAR.2022.040204.

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