Taking the China society around 1925 as the background, this paper describes the tragedy of a bourgeois family with strong feudal color. In the play, there are two families, eight characters and thirty years' feud as the main line, Zhou Puyuan, a hypocritical capitalist, Zhou Chong, a simple teenager influenced by new ideas, and Fan Yi, a woman who is driven crazy by an indifferent family and hurt to pieces by love.
Zhou Ping, who is full of guilt for what he did in the past and tried to escape, Ma Lu, who came back unexpectedly, Sifeng, who simply loves and is loved, Lu Dahai, an oppressed worker, an insatiable housekeeper and so on. All contradictions broke out on a thunderstorm night, whether it was family secrets or life secrets.
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1930 In September, Cao Yu was admitted to the Foreign Languages Department of Tsinghua University from Tianjin Nankai University and entered the second grade. He loved drama since he was a child, and actively participated in the performances of Peking Opera "The Fisherman Killed a Family" and Ibsen's "A Doll's House". His passion for drama made him have a strong desire to write drama, and he began to conceive the drama Thunderstorm based on his personal experience and knowledge for many years.
193 1 year, when the September 18th Incident broke out, Tsinghua University students organized an anti-Japanese propaganda team, with Cao Yu as the propaganda team leader. He and his classmates from the propaganda team went to Baoding by train to publicize.
On the train, I met a burly man named Zhao, a worker at Changxindian Iron Works. Cao Yu sincerely admired the worker's patriotic spirit. He remembered the drama Thunderstorm that he was conceiving, and he had the character image of Lu Dahai in Thunderstorm.