Cao Yu (19 10 September 24th-19961February 13), formerly known as Xiaoshi, alias Tianjia, Han nationality, from Qianjiang, Hubei. Born in a declining feudal bureaucratic family, he is an outstanding modern playwright in China.

Contradiction and conflict are the core of Cao Yu's drama structure, and the structural settings of Cao Yu's early dramas are closely centered around contradictions and conflicts. These structural settings are changeable and suitable for drama. Under the changeable drama conflict, Cao Yu's early plays have the same spiritual essence, that is, praising the primitive wildness.

Cao Yu takes "home" as the expression of locking the world, and "running away" as the means to get out of the locked world and find a new world. The development process of the structural model of his early plays is the process that the new world gradually overcomes the locked world.

This process is vividly reflected in the creative process from Thunderstorm to Beijingers. Thunderstorm is a closed masterpiece, and then sunrise and Yuanye begin to look for a new world in the gap of the closed world. With the collapse of the closed world, the new world has become a rich structural model.

The writing intention of Thunderstorm;

When talking about the writing intention, the author said that Thunderstorm was "the product of a day without the sun". "At that time, I wanted to resist. Trapped in the darkness and corruption of the old society, I was unwilling, so I picked up a pen.

Thunderstorm was my first moan, or maybe a cry. (Postscript to Selected Works of Cao Yu) added that "writing Thunderstorm is an urgent need of emotion" and "there seems to be a surging emotional stream pushing me. I am venting my pent-up resentment and slandering China's family and society. "

Refer to the above contents: Baidu Encyclopedia-Thunderstorm, Baidu Encyclopedia-Cao Yu