A Surfer, Explorer And Innovator--On Wei Minglun's Drama Creation

In 1980s, China's drama circles occurred an upsurge of drama creation and offering, at the same time occurred a "drama crisis" that had never occurred before. Under the circumstance of sighing on this crisis, some drama creators were in hesitation and felt depressed, but some warriors pressed forwards in face of difficulties. A Sichuan Drama creator Wei Minglun was a outstanding representative of the latters. Since 1980s, Wei Minglun has created successively 8 dramas such as Yi Dan Da and others, and caused a comparatively great echo at home and abroad. His guiding ideology is anti-feudal consciousness. He also integrated this consciousness with publicity of humanist spirit. He not only paid attention to human's fate and respected the value of human existence, but also further expressed real humanity and explored the connotation of human culture. As a innovator of Sichuan Drama, Wei Minglun tried hard to integrate tragedy with comedy, integrate dramatic with lyric, integrate traditional artifice with modem skill, integrate art appreciation with philosophic thinking so as to offer people with multi-level and multi-sided aesthetic recept.We can say that Wei Minglun's drama creation is a kind of induction responding to times' and history's calling new drama. He faced the fact and future, and developed first the consciousness of drama innovation. Meanwhile, he did not forget to rethink history, and planted the consciousness into national traditional spirits. It was in the all-new amalgamation of the two that Wei Minglun applied his experiences and inspiration to build a modern engineering of drama culture. This was Wei Minglun's contribution to modern drama culture. It also can say this is the essential and real value of the "Wei Minglun Phenomenon".