What are some famous Chinese plays?

1. "The Death of a Famous Man" Chinese 3-act play. It was first performed in 1927 by Tian Han. The main theme of the work is to reveal the social fate of art, and write about the unfortunate acting career of Liu Zhensheng, a Peking Opera actor. Liu Zhensheng paid attention to the virtue and character of the play, treated the art seriously, and carefully nurtured a rising star like Xiao Fengxian.

But Xiao Fengxian, after becoming famous, became a plaything of the rogue gentleman, Master Yang, and betrayed the theater career for which he had worked so hard.

Liu Zhensheng, poor and sick, endured the persecution of the evil forces, and saw the art was ravaged, the destruction of artistic talent, and finally exhausted. The author criticized the sick society that "can't tolerate good things" through the tragic experience of the artist, and at the same time wrote out the power of enterprising and resistance.

2. The Night of the Tiger is a one-act play written by Mr. Tian Han in 1924, which enjoys a high reputation in the theater world. The play depicts the story of a wandering youth who falls in love with a rich farmer's daughter. The play is relatively successful in portraying Lian Gu and Huang Dafu, a pair of young men and women who aspire to freedom and happiness and strive for reasonable power.

Through the love tragedy of Lian Gu and Huang Dazhou, The Night of the Acquired Tiger condemns the feudal consciousness of determining marriage by rank, wealth, status, etc., indicts the feudal system that destroys and persecutes the sincere love between young men and women, and praises the young people who are courageous enough to challenge the feudal ideology.

3. "A Wasp" is one of the most famous works of Ding Xilin, a famous modern Chinese scientist and dramatist. It depicts a comedy scene in which young people awakened after May Fourth fight against the old-fashioned forces for the autonomy of marriage.

4. "Touching Heaven and Earth Dou'e Grievance" (Dou'e Grievance for short) is a miscellaneous drama written by the Yuan Dynasty playwright Guan Hanqing and published in the 10th year of the Wanli reign of the Ming Dynasty (1582).

The four-fold play is about a weak widow, Dou E, who is framed by a scoundrel and beaten by a stupid official, and is sentenced to be beheaded and displayed in public. Before her execution, Dou E, full of grief and anger, makes three vows: blood spattered with white practice, snow in June, and a three-year drought. As a result, the three vows were realized one by one.

5. Thunderstorm is a play written by playwright Cao Yu and published in July 1934 in the Literary Quarterly. Set in Chinese society around 1925, the play depicts the tragedy of a bourgeois family with strong feudal colors.

The play focuses on two families, eight characters, and thirty years of feuds: Zhou Puyuan, the hypocritical head of a capitalist family; Zhou Chong, a simple teenager who is influenced by new ideas; and Artemisia, a woman who is driven mad by her indifferent family and scarred by love.

With Zhou Ping, who is full of guilt for what she has done in the past and tries to escape, as well as Lu Ma, who returns unexpectedly, Sifeng, who simply loves and is loved, Lu Dahai, an oppressed laborer, and the greedy housekeeper, all the contradictions explode on the night of the thunderstorm, no matter whether it is a secret of the family or a secret of the family's life.

While recounting the entanglements of family conflicts and denouncing the corruption and stubbornness of the feudal family, it also reflects the deeper social and contemporary issues.