The Study Of Fan ZiDong And His Drama

Fan Zidong (1879--1954) was a celebrity in contemporary Chinese cultural histroy, precursor of the Revolution of 1911, outstanding dramatist, and productive scholar. Although born into a scholar family in the feudal society, emerged in the traditional education, Fan Zidong was a revolutionist whose mind alwasy keeps paces with the time, never schackled by the old feudal values. Taking a close look at the lifetrack of Fan Zidong, it was a living hisory in which the features of the time was vividly reflected, its steady rhythms echoed the pulse of the time, it was full of passion and in persistent pursuit of the true essence of art.Over fourty years of industrious writing created this remarkable dramatist. His works are most featured by broad subject matters, rich contents, ingenious conception, popular language, humorous style, which received favorable view from the audience. Meanwhile, He combined critical realism with depicting the history according to drama and favouring democratic ideology,which evolved his pursuit of dramatic aesthetics。Fan Zidong was a cultural celebrity who was blessed with multi-talents, who was intelligent and accomplished in a broad range of hobbies. Apart from drama creation, he was also good at poetry, painting, calligraphy, and somewhat expert on language, explanations of words in ancient books, folklore and music. Selecting Fan Zidong's works because we highly value his advanced open-mindness and ever-progressed outlook on life and world, also in promotion of the democratic spirits and patriotism, in praise of his incessant pursuit of his career and cornerstone role in the cultural field.