Romanticism is one of the basic creative methods of literature and art, and together with realism, it constitutes the two mainstream ideological trends of literature and art. Romanticism, as a creative method, pays attention to the subjective inner world while reflecting the objective reality, expresses the passionate pursuit of the ideal world, and often uses passionate language, magnificent imagination and exaggerated techniques to create images.

Romantic creative tendency has a long history. As early as the oral creation period of human literature and art, some works had romantic factors and characteristics to varying degrees, but romanticism at this time neither formed a trend of thought nor was it a creative method that people consciously mastered.

Generally speaking, the Romantic Movement was spontaneously composed of many artists, poets, writers, musicians, politicians, philosophers and other figures who appeared in Europe from the end of18th century to the beginning of19th century. However, until the 20th century, the specific characteristics and definition of romanticism were still the subject of debate in the history of thought and literature.