Chapter 24 Letter to Yang Shaoxuan and Qi Yanming[1]

(January 9, 1944) Comrades Shao Xuan and Yan Ming: Watched your plays, you did a good job, I thank you, and please thank the actors and comrades! History is created by the people, but on the stage of old dramas (in all old literature and old arts that have left the people (above) The people have become scum, and the stage is ruled by the masters, wives, young masters and ladies. This kind of historical reversal is now reversed by you, and the historical appearance has been restored. Since then, the old drama has opened up a new life, so it is worth celebrating.Guo Moruo [2] has done a good job in historical dramas [3], and you have done this kind of work in old dramas.This beginning of yours will be an epoch-making beginning of the revolution of old dramas. I am very happy to think of this. I hope you will write more and more performances to become a popular trend and promote it to the whole country!

salute! Mao Zedong night of january 9 According to the "Selected Letters of Mao Zedong" published by People's Publishing House in 1983. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] This is a letter Mao Zedong wrote to the director after watching the Pingju (that is, Peking opera) "Forced to Liangshan" performed by Yang Shaoxuan and Qi Yanming, and performed by the Party School Club of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. During the "Cultural Revolution", this letter was published in the "People's Daily" on May 25, 1967. At that time, it was said that it was written to Yan'an Ping Theater. In the letter, "Guo Moruo has done a lot in historical drama." Good job, you guys did that kind of work on the old show" was deleted.The full text of this letter was republished in the People's Daily on May 23, 1982.Yang Shaoxuan (1893-1971), born in Luan County, Hebei Province, was a researcher at the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China at that time.Qi Yanming (1907-1978), a native of Beijing, was the head of the Culture and Education Section of the Academic Affairs Office of the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China at that time.

[2] Guo Moruo (892-1978), a native of Leshan, Sichuan.During the War of Resistance Against Japan, he served as the director of the Third Office of the Political Department of the Military Commission of the Kuomintang government where Zhou Enlai was the deputy minister, and the chairman of the Cultural Work Committee. He organized progressive cultural figures to engage in anti-Japanese propaganda work in the Kuomintang ruled areas. [3] Refers to Guo Moruo who wrote historical dramas such as "Qu Yuan" and "Tiger Talisman" during the Anti-Japanese War.