China's earliest modern play is "The Event of Life".
The author of "A Life-long Event" is Hu Shi. In March 1919, it was published in New Youth, Volume 6, No.3, with the preface and postscript of the author. The author said that it was originally written in English at the request of a friend and then translated into Chinese. It is one of China's earliest plays. The script describes the story of Tian Yamei, the only daughter of a middle-class family, who ran away from home to fight for marital autonomy.
After returning from studying abroad, Yamei chose her friend Chen who had been together for many years. Mrs. Tian, on the other hand, begged for a fortune-telling, saying that fate was incompatible and the eight characters were mutually compatible, so she opposed it. Finally, Yamei took advantage of her parents' leaving the house for dinner, leaving a note and leaving. The message said, "This is a lifelong event for the child. The child should make his own decision. Now the child has gone in Mr. Chen's car and will leave for the time being."
creative characteristics
Hu Shi's idea of drama improvement comes from his thinking about literary revolution. He believes that the written form is a tool of literature, and it is difficult to express meaning if the tool is not applicable. Later, he pointed out that the history of China literature is only a history of literary form metabolism, but the history of living literature has replaced the history of dead literature. When the tools become rigid, they must be updated. This is the "literary revolution".
In his view, several revolutions in China's literary history are also revolutions of literary tools. What China needs is a revolution in which vernacular Chinese replaces ancient Chinese and new dramas, and living tools replace dead tools. Hu Shi's thought of drama improvement focuses on drama text and thought, not on stage presentation and performance, not on negligence, but on deliberate action.