The Self-contradiction Of LiYu In The Idle Feeling Is Sent Occasionally

LiYu played a special role and has an important status in the history of Chinese literature. He had multiple identities as not only a brilliant novelist, a playwright, but also an artist of life. His ideas about life are best embodied in The idle feeling is sent occasionally. In the previous studies, researchers had their eyes on LiYu's Drama Theory and his progression but they lacked a whole understanding of this problem. The thesis aims to do a systematic research on LiYu's self-contradiction.The idle feeling is sent occasionally is a systematic summary of traditional Chinese delight about life and it bear the imprint of the times and personal style. By systematical research, this problem can be reduced to three points: the contradiction in the street life and retired life, the personal life and social interests, the secular life and delicate taste. LiYu is not only the archetype of the rising townspeople but also a number of traditional intellectual elite. He tried to build his bright street life, wanted the self-actualization of the value of life. In addition, He is also a number of traditional intellectual elite, so there are some thoughts and feelings come from the intellectual elite.The self-contradiction of LiYu is not a personnel problem, it's a complex of traditional Chinese nationality and the special circumstance between the Ming-Qing dynasties. LiYu got his own balance between many contradictory elements.