Tragedy,as a prominent representation and crucial signifier of artistic creation in an era,serves as a key element in assessing the connotations and artistic aesthetic orientations of literary works.The common charac-teristics of outstanding literary and artistic works,which transcend the times,lead the society,and embody distinc-tive humanistic views,often stem from the importance they attach to the expression of tragedy at the levels of mate-rial selection,narrative construction,and thematic elaboration.The creation of films and TV dramas related to Lu Yao's novel"Life"has,on the one hand,inherited the literary spirit of the original novel and,on the other hand,realized the mainstream discourse discipline and innovative transformation of the tragic connotation of the times.The TV drama"The Road of Life"realizes the aesthetic convergence of the pursuit of the"people-oriented"liter-ary spirit and the expression of mainstream cultural themes,demonstrating the creative confidence in the aesthetic expression of tragedy.