The invention belongs to the technical field of organic electroluminescence material, in particular to a series of phosphorescent dye parent materials with a tetrahedral structure, and the application of the materials in an electroluminescent device. The phosphorescent dye parent materials can be used for a panel display device, a light-emitting diode (LED) and an electronic imaging device. The phosphorescent dye parent material has excellent electronic and hole transmission properties, can be independently used as a luminous layer and a current carrier transmission layer, and can be used as matrix and doped with other fluorescent or phosphorescent dyes. The compound has stronger fluorescent property in a state of solution or solid, can be used for forming an even film, and has better optical stability and thermal stability. R1, R2, R3 and R4 are respectively connected with phenyl group by a single bond, and are respectively selected from one of hydrogen, alkyl group, alkoxy, nitryl, hydroxyl, cyano-group, benzene cyano-group, amino, sulfydryl, halogen, diphenyl phosphoryl, furan, thiophene, pyrrole, pyridina, diazine, triazine, pyran, quinoline, benzpyrole, carbazole, aniline or phenothiazine, and X is C or Si.