With profound historical knowledge and unique historical vision, the author is good at distinguishing truth from falsehood and distinguishing right from wrong among complicated historical phenomena and even various contradictory historical materials and viewpoints, and extracts outstanding and distinctive opinions as the ideological basis of his historical drama creation, which makes the theme of his drama have thought-provoking power.

This feature of Guo Moruo's historical plays has been shown in a series of plays before liberation. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, due to the maturity of the author's thoughts and the urgent need to re-evaluate historical figures from the perspective of historical materialism under socialist conditions, this feature of the author's creation is more prominent and contemporary.

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In their works, Cai Wenji and Wu Zetian chose two outstanding figures who have been criticized in Chinese history, endowed them with the noble character of "worrying about the world and enjoying it" and the firm belief that "man can conquer nature", combined the scientific evaluation of historical figures with the expression of the spirit of the socialist era, and created brand-new historical figures.

Here, it shows the author's spirit of boldly challenging the orthodox thought which is absolutely dominant in feudal society, and also shows the author's novel and unique artistic conception. In this way, the author highly combines his historian's vision with the playwright's thinking activities in image.