On Li Yu's Idea of Rationality over Emotionality and Its Active Significance in his Love and Marriage Legends——Taking "Permanent Reunion" and "Seizing the Unsurpassed Beauty" as examples

Li Yu was a drama master of the transitional period of the Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty.His several romance dramas written in late Ming Dynasty broke away from the tendency of advocating vulgar sexual passion reflected at the time by inheriting Gao Ming's writing notion of Disregarding the style of decency,/ It's futile even though it is nice. He tried to save the dejected and corrupted social situation of the late Ming Dynasty with his ethic morality.In treating the relationship between emotionality and rationality,he shifted to the priority of rationality from Tang Xian-zu's overemphasis to emotionality,and placed emotion to the minor position,controlling emotion with reason,and replacing emotion with reason.If breaking away from the epochal background and merely analyzing from the artistic and aesthetic perspective of the texts,this kind of writing tendency was not suitable in love and marriage subject.But under the special social condition and ideological background,this writing had an active and advanced significance.