China Social Science Review

No.2, 2023

Analysis of the “Yingxi” Performance Concept and the Significance of Its Film Genre

(Abstract)

Li Zhenlin

There is an “ultra-stable system” in the concept of “yingxi” performance, which has important cultural and aesthetic connections with the Chinese film genre. From the three levels of genetics, ontology, and nationality, although the name “yingxi” has retreated from the historical stage after the 1930s, it has gradually transformed into dramatic performance and integrated into realistic performance methods. Yingxi has become a specimen of Chinese theatrical performance and constitutes a cultural dimension of the national characteristics of the Chinese film genre, which can be refined and forged into one of the conceptual and aesthetic symbols of the Chinese film genre.