摘要

The paper focuses on the relationship between Li Yu's personality transformation of personality and his writing of novels and dramas and proposes that the formation of his creative mind - state and artistic ideas originates in his psychological transformation from cynicism to comical secularity. This personality transformation,the paper demonstrates,leads the transference of Li Yu's literary mind and results in a writing as a form of existence that caters for the contemporary life in the reality with secular concerns. This indulgence in the function of entertainment of literature greatly hinders Li Yu's scope of social criticism and development of artistic innovation,and contributes to Li Yu's failure to attain higher achievements as a novelist and dramatist..