Li Yu Ling ÷ Early Inheritance And Development,

Ling Mengchu and Li Yu are all masters of NiHuaBen. Compared with Feng Menglong's San Yan, Ling Mengchu's Liang Pai was more original. It was the first time that original NiHuaBen had assembled to a book. On the one hand, Li Yu inherited the NiHuaBen style moulded by Liang Pai; on the other hand, he made a breakthrough.Because of the influence of history books, many of the former novels of China were objectively transcribe the real people or stories. For writers, the works was only one-dimensional objective world. In Ming dynasty, the first-classical scholars participated in collecting and reorganizing SongYuanHuaBen and they simulated its style to write NiHuaBen. The scholars brought their emotions into the works. FengMenglong's San Yan had made an important stride in injecting writer's emotion. After this, LingMengchu's mentalities were showed projectingly in Liang Pai. In Ling's works, the writer's consciousness and mentality was still expressed unconsciously. LiYu directly inherited and developed LingMengchu's style and his ideas and soul could be seen everywhere in his works. From LingMengchu to LiYu, writer's emotion in NiHuaBen was developed from projecting to rising.As far as novel theory was concerned, LingMengchu firstly put forward that writer should write "the rare of mediocrity" (yong chang zhi qi), but his works was contradictory with his theory. It was LiYu who inherited his idea and successfully applied it to writing. LiYu's works came from real life and he rarely used ghosts to propel his plot. Li regarded "original" as alternative name of "strange" and posed demanding request of the writer.In traditional opera domain, LingMengchu sharply attacked the malpractice of prolix of writing and put forward "opera esteeming natural" (qu gui dang hang). Holding high this banner, LiYu developed his idea and posed "language pursuiting similar"(yu qiu xiao si).LingMengchu's "opera structure also important" (xi qu da jia yi shi yao shi) had great influence on LiYu's "structure first" (jie gou di yi). LingMengchu inherently insisted on "writing for spectators"(guan zhong ben wei) and it was succeeded by LiYu and developed to "writing for entertainment"(yu le ben wei).Close times and similar life experiences offered utmost opportunities for LiYu to accept and inherit LingMengchu's point of view. The baptism of personality liberating thoughts constituted the profound internal causes and ideological foundation for LiYu's inheritance and development. Addition to these, LiYu's succession and development conformed to literature's own law and it was one of the reasons for LiYu's prominent success.