The earliest modern drama in China.

China's earliest modern drama is Life Events.

The author of Lifelong Events is Hu Shi. 19 19 was published in the third issue of new youth, volume 6, with the author's preface and postscript attached. The author said that it was originally written in English at the request of a friend and later translated into Chinese. This is one of the earliest plays in China. 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 begged fortune telling, saying that fate was incompatible and the eight characters matched, so she opposed it. Finally, Yami took advantage of her parents to go out for dinner, left a note and left. The message said, "This is a child's lifelong event. Children should make their own decisions. Now the child has left in Mr. Chen's car and will leave for the time being. "

Creative characteristics

The viewpoint of Hu Shi's drama improvement thought 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 living history of literature replaced the dead history of literature. When 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 dramas and living tools replace dead tools. Hu Shi's thought of drama improvement focuses on drama text and thought, not on stage and performance, not on negligence, but on deliberate action.