Comments On The Artistic Characteristics Of Romanticism In Mei Shuaiyuan’ Play

Mei Shuaiyuan is a novelist, playwright and producer of Chinese play with real scenery performance in the Chinese literary world in the new era. In the years of literary creation, he makes great efforts to fill his works with romanticism. Emotional, folk and legendary constitute the romantic features of Mei Shuaiyuan’s play. This romantic style also reflects in Mei Shuaiyuan’s stylistic expressions, such as environment, language, character emotion and so on. With the artistic techniques of romanticism, Mei Shuaiyuan fully displays the cultural characteristics of Guangxi in his play. Mei Shuaiyuan has creativity in the aspect of cultural notions and playwriting. So his play has special artistic charm. This article will analyze and research Mei Shuaiyuan’s play in order to explore artistic characteristics of romanticism.The first chapter is the "west wind" and "east wind" of romanticism. It mainly introduces the background, causes and major features, as well as the similarities and differences of western and Chinese romanticism. Through analyzing, we can see that subjective lyricism, the inclination to describe the nature and to write myths and folk stories, and the pursuit of free and uninhibited art forms constitute the general characteristics of romanticism.The second chapter is the formation of aesthetic style of Mei Shuaiyuan’s romanticism. It introduces Mei Shuaiyuan’s living environment, family background, creative ideas and creative path. Compared with many creation groups in the literary world, his works have distinct regional characteristics and personal styles. Bred in the unique national character and times of Baiyue, the impact of Mei Shuaiyuan’s aesthetic style of romanticism is worthy of further exploration as well as the content of works. Through analyzing, we can see that Mei Shuaiyuan’s path of growth and influences of family has created his unique romantic art style of drama. At the same time, his literature concept of "Baiyue state" and artistic characteristics of romanticism have a lot of similarities, which lays the theoretical basis for his romantic playwriting. In addition, the unique creative process that Mei Shuaiyuan shifts from novel writing to playwriting is the continuation of his romantic writing style.The third chapter is the embodiment of the artistic features of romanticism in Mei Shuaiyuan’s play. It starts with the artistic features of romanticism and overall analyzes his play from five aspects including the environmental choice, the contents of play and the forms of expression, characterizations of the characters’emotion, the expression of the language and the use of the means of expression, and deeply digs the unique artistic charm of his play.From the above discussion, we cannot deny that romanticism is a prominent feature of Mei Shuaiyuan’s play. Mei Shuaiyuan is a playwright who has a "romantic spirit". From his dramatic works and play with real scenery performance, we can see that his works is not only a high aesthetic value of literature, but also worthy of the literary spirit of the era and the eternal charm of art in the aspects of the innovation of dramatic form and the expression of the romantic features.