Thunderstorm is a drama created by Cao Yu. What is the writing background of this play?

Thunderstorm is a drama created by Cao Yu. Described the tragedy of a bourgeois family with strong feudal color under the social background of China around 1925. The main line of the play is two families, eight protagonists and thirty years of discord. Whether it's a family secret or a life secret, all contradictions break out on a thunderstorm night. While describing family conflicts and entanglements and angrily condemning decadent and stubborn feudal families, it also reflects deeper social and contemporary problems. The plot festival is rich and colorful, with exquisite language and unique characters.

1930 In September, Cao Yu was admitted to the Foreign Languages Department of Tsinghua University from Tianjin Nankai University, a sophomore. He loved drama since he was a child and actively participated in the drama club's performance of Ibsen's A Doll's House. His love for drama made him have a strong desire to create, and he began to conceive the drama Thunderstorm based on years of personal experience and knowledge.

193 1 year, Tsinghua students organized an anti-Japanese propaganda team, with Cao Yu as the team leader. He and his classmates from the propaganda group went to Baoding by train to publicize. On the train, I met a burly man named Zhao, a worker in Changxindian Iron and Steel Plant. Cao Yu admires the worker's patriotic spirit from the bottom of his heart. He remembered the drama Thunderstorm that he was thinking about, and he had the character image of Lu Dahai in Thunderstorm. After half a year's thinking and writing, Cao Yu finally finished the first draft of Thunderstorm. 1July, 934, the first edition of Thunderstorm.

It is "the cornerstone of China's drama realism" and a milestone in the maturity of China's modern drama. Speaking of creative intention, Thunderstorm is "the product of a day without the sun". "At that time, I wanted to resist. Trapped in the darkness and corruption of the old society, I was unwilling, so I picked up a pen. Thunderstorm was my first groan, maybe a cry. " (Postscript to Selected Works of Cao Yu) It is also said that "writing Thunderstorm is an urgent need of emotion" and "it seems that there is a surging emotion pushing me. I am venting my pent-up resentment and slandering China's family and society.