Detailed information of Beijingers (Cao Yu's play Peking Man)

The three-act drama Peking man takes the economic decline of the Zeng family, a typical declining scholar-bureaucrat family, as the clue of the overall contradiction and conflict, and takes the Zeng family as the protagonist to start the conflict between good and ugly, rebirth and decay, light and darkness in the family. Through these conflicts, we went deep into feudal families, trying to reflect the devouring of people by feudal spiritual rule, people's pursuit of life under this spiritual rule, and the inevitable bankruptcy of this spiritual rule. Screenwriter Cao Yu said: "At that time, I had a wish that people should live like people, instead of finding their way in the dark like many people at that time."

Basic introduction Chinese name: Peking man screenwriter: Cao Yu main characters: Zeng family three generations types: drama content outline, character personality, writing motivation, work evaluation, creative evaluation, Cao Yu, content outline The story of Peking man took place in Peiping in the early 1930s. At this time, the ancient Zeng family lived for three generations. The first generation is Ceng Hao, the dying man with his dead wife. The second generation's son Zeng has been taking care of Mr. Zeng's wife Zeng Siyi, who is nearly 30 years old. His sister Zeng and her husband, the third generation's son Ceng Ting, are only 17 years old and his 65438. Nanny Chen, an old servant who left the Zeng family for many years, returned to Beijing to visit her old master with her grandson and pillars, and was treated with false enthusiasm by Zeng Siyi, the second generation of Zeng's daughter-in-law. During a conversation, the debt collectors were desperately collecting debts outside the Zeng family's house, but the housewife refused to pay Zhang Shun, the housekeeper, to drive them away. Zhang Shun and nanny Chen scolded them and drove them away. A small pillar plays with Ceng Ting and Yuan Yuan. On the evening of August, the Zeng family invited everyone to dinner at home. Zeng Siyi talked about the marriage problem of Lu, and advocated that Lu and Yuan Rengan should get married, but Ceng Hao opposed it. At this time, the debt collector came to collect debts, and Yuan Rengan and "Beijingers" forcibly drove him away. Ruizhen found out that she was pregnant, and she was tired of the life of the Zeng family. She hoped to have an abortion and left the Zeng family with Yuan Rengan and his party. She advised her not to have an abortion, but Ruizhen made up her mind. One party, Ceng Ting, refused to admit the marriage arranged by her parents and fell in love with Yuan Yuan, but Yuan Yuan was naughty and didn't show it. Jiang Tai blamed the Tseng family for being heartless and accidentally injuring Ceng Hao after drinking. Ceng Hao was hospitalized in a coma. When he came back, it happened to be his birthday. The neighbor Du Jia asked the Tseng family for debt collection and offered to hand over either the Tseng family's house or the coffin painted by Ceng Hao every year. Mrs. Zeng Shao thought that her father was rich and unwilling to pay his debts, and offered to hand over the coffin. Jiang Tai suggested going to his friend, the police chief. As a result, in the expectation of everyone, Jiang Tai left, and when it was time to hand over the coffin, Jiang Tai did not appear. In the cry of Ceng Hao's helplessness and pain, Du Jia carried the coffin away, and Mr. Zeng swallowed opium and died. Zeng Ting and Rui Zhen wrote a divorce agreement, and Su Fang finally decided to leave the Zeng family with Rui Zhen. After persuading Ceng Hao to have a rest, sapanwood and Rui Zhen stepped on it. Character Ceng Hao-the grandfather of an old family who settled in Beiping, aged 63. Ceng Hao's eldest son, Zeng, is 36 years old. Smart and handsome, kind and gentle, but weak, although people reach middle age, they still have no financial resources. He is a "basket case". He fell in love with Su Fang since he was a child, but failed to combine with Su Fang. He married Zeng Siyi under the auspices of his parents, then swallowed opium in despair and died. Zeng Siyi-Ceng Hao's eldest daughter-in-law, 389. Pretending to know books and be polite, smart and capable, smiling all day, but hiding a knife in my heart, hypocritical, selfish, talkative and never knowing how to reflect. She always thinks she is generous, and everyone around her is wolves and mice who murdered her. I always shout "be patient" in my mouth, but I always plan to take advantage of others and think "I can't stumble" everywhere. She always pretends to be suspicious. In a word, she thinks she is smart, capable, interested and ambitious. Zeng Cai Wen, the daughter of Ceng Hao, is 33 years old. Jiang Tai-his son-in-law, Cai Wen's husband, an old international student, 378. He used to be an official, but later he was wanted and hid in Zeng's house. I had the idea of doing business, but I didn't actually do it. Often complain, then drink * * *, and speak frankly and honestly, but in the last scene, I tricked everyone into taking 30 yuan out to drink. Zeng Ting, grandson of Ceng Hao and son of Wen Qing and Yi Gi, is 17 years old this year. Weak personality, don't like mother, like Yuan Yuan. Ceng Rui is the daughter-in-law of Hao Zhenzeng's grandson, and whether she is the daughter-in-law of her son or not, she is eighteen years old. There was no love with Ceng Ting, and then she got pregnant and miscarried. After divorcing Ceng Ting, she left the Zeng family without telling her parents and Yuan family. Su Fang-his aunt and niece, about thirty. Gentle and kind, silent and sad, patient everywhere. Parents died young and came to Zeng's house. They took care of Ceng Hao without any regrets and loved Zeng Wenqing. Finally, in despair and disappointment, I decided to leave the Zeng family. Zeng's nanny Chen is over 60 years old. Frank personality, with the simplicity and kindness of a countryman. Xiao Zhuer, the grandson of Chen, is fifteen years old. Zhang Shun, the servant of the Tseng family. Yuan Rengan, a scholar studying anthropology, is 38 years old. -Yuan's only daughter, sixteen years old. Lively and cheerful personality, naive, naive to say that he wants to marry a "Beijinger" and "Beijinger"-a giant who repairs trucks in Yuan Rengan's academic investigation team. When talking about writing motivation, Cao Yu, the screenwriter of Writing Motivation, said: "At that time, I had a wish that people should live like people, instead of finding their way in the dark like many people at that time." The evaluation of Peking Man is a sign that Cao Yu's drama creation art reached a new height in the 1940s. It is another masterpiece written by Cao Yu after War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's Metamorphosis, and it is also the one that Cao Yu thinks he is most satisfied with. It is considered by experts in the industry to be the best work of Mr. Cao Yu. The creative evaluation of the characters in Peking Man has absorbed the essence of most other works in art, and there are new creations in it. For example, the image of Zeng Siyi in A Dream of Red Mansions is similar to that of Wang Xifeng, and the image of Zeng in Home is similar to that of Gao Juexin. In Home, it seems that the images of Mei and Chueh-hui are integrated, and the contradictions of three generations are intertwined, which makes the whole play compact and full of tension. Peking man shows that Cao Yu's drama creation reached a new height in the 1940s. Cao Yu (1910-1996), formerly known as his ancestral home in Qianjiang, Hubei Province and Tianjin. I grew up in a rich family and often had the opportunity to watch civilized dramas and traditional old dramas, which cultivated my interest in drama. /kloc-in the spring of 0/923, he entered Nankai Middle School and joined Nankai New Troupe. From 65438 to 0928, he enrolled in the preparatory course of the Political Department of Nankai University, and transferred to the Western Literature Department of Tsinghua University in the following year, and extensively dabbled in western literature, especially drama literature. 1933 graduated from university, went to teach in Yude Middle School in Baoding, Hebei Province, and entered Tsinghua Research Institute to study drama a few months later. When Cao Yu was in middle school, he began to contribute to magazines and participate in drama performances under his pseudonym. Before graduating from college, I wrote a script of Thunderstorm, which was published in the July issue of Literature Quarterly, 1934. 1In September, 935, she returned to Tianjin and taught in the Foreign Languages Department of Hebei Women's Normal University. Sunrise was released on 1936. In August of the same year, he was invited to teach at Nanjing National Drama School, and then moved to Changsha and Chongqing with the school. At the beginning of 1942, he resigned from the teaching post of the National Academy of Drama and engaged in drama creation and directing activities. 1March, 946, he and Lao She went to the United States to give lectures at the invitation of the State Council. 1947 1 returned to China to teach at Shanghai Theatre Academy. Later, he served as the director of Shanghai Wenhua Film Company, writing and directing Sunny Days. Under the arrangement of China, at the end of 1948, he secretly turned to Hong Kong and then arrived at the liberated area via Yantai. 1February, 949, went to Beijing to attend the preparatory meeting of the new CPPCC. After the establishment of the government, Cao Yu served as the vice president of the Central Academy of Drama. 1June, 952, Beijing People's Art Theatre was established, with Cao Yu as the dean. He was criticized during the Cultural Revolution and guarded the reception room in Beijing People's Art Troupe and dormitory. 1978, the original name of Beijing People's Art Theatre was restored, and Cao Yu served as the dean again, completing the script of Wang Zhaojun. 1996 12 13 died in Beijing.