Date of birth: 1898

Native place: Changsha County, Hunan Province, China.

Position: Former Drama Improvement Bureau of the Ministry of Culture

Director of the arts bureau

Founder, playwright and poet of modern drama. Formerly known as Shou Chang. People from Changsha County, Hunan Province. From a poor family, he studied in Changsha Normal University in 19 12, was admitted to Tokyo Normal University in 19 16, and joined Li Dazhao's Tokyo Youth China Society in19/9, and began to publish poems and comments. 192 1 established an association with Guo Moruo and other organizations to advocate new literature. 1922 returned to China and was employed by the editorial department of Zhonghua Book Company in Shanghai. 1924 founded Southland Bimonthly with his wife Yi Shuyu. Later, he taught in Changsha First Normal University, Shanghai University and Daxia University. 1926, South China Film and Drama Club was established in Shanghai, Tang Huaiqiu. 1927 autumn, director and president of the literature department of Shanghai Art Institute. At the end of the year, he and Zhou performed "Fish Dragon Club", which had a great influence. 1928 founded South China Art College with Xu Beihong and Ou Yangyuqian, and established South China Society in the autumn of the same year, which promoted the new drama movement with arrogant spirit, performed in Nanjing, Hangzhou and Guangzhou for many times, and edited South China Monthly. From the winter of 1929, he took an active part in political activities while engaging in literary and artistic activities. 1930 March, as one of the founders, he attended the inaugural meeting of the Chinese Left-wing Writers' Union, was elected as one of the seven-member executive committee, and later joined the China Freedom Movement League. In June of the same year, Nanguo Society was closed down and the left-wing dramatists' alliance was reorganized into the left-wing dramatists' alliance. He is one of the initiators and organizers. 1932, after joining the China * * * production party, he joined the party's leadership over literature and art, and joined Xia Yan and others in the film post. Yihua, Lianhua and other film companies wrote progressive film literature scripts such as Three Women in Modern Times, March of Youth, and Children in the Storm, which made film literature have a new look from thought to art./kloc-0 1937 After the "July 7th Incident", he created a five-act drama "Lugou Bridge" and held a performance by Laojun ... In August, he went to Shanghai to participate in the work of saving the country through culture. After the fall of Shanghai, he went to Changsha and Wuhan to engage in the anti-Japanese United front work in the theater. In February, 65438, the All-China War Zone Anti-Enemy Association was established, and he was one of the organizers. At the beginning of 1938, he edited and published the semi-monthly Anti-Japanese War Drama with Ma and others, and then went to Changsha to organize the Anti-Japanese War Daily. 1Feb. 938 went to Wuhan to attend the Third Hall of the Political Department of the Military Commission of the National Government, in charge of art propaganda. Together with Hong Shen, he formed 10 Anti-Japanese Drama Team, 4 Anti-Japanese Propaganda Teams and 1 Children's Drama Troupe, and founded the drama Spring and Autumn with Ou Yangyuqian in Chongqing 1940. Later, he went to Guilin to lead the establishment of the New China Drama Club and Peking Opera. 1in the spring of 944, Ou Yangyuqian and others hosted the first drama exhibition in southwest China in Guilin, which promoted the unity of the drama team and persisted in the progressive drama movement. After 1949, Tian Han served as the director of the Opera Improvement Bureau and the Art Bureau of the Ministry of Culture. Persecuted to death during the Cultural Revolution 1968. /kloc-0 in April, 979, a grand memorial service was held in Beijing to rehabilitate Tian Han.

Tian Han has been engaged in literature and art all his life, creating more than 60 plays and operas, more than 20 movie scripts, 24 opera scripts, nearly 2,000 lyrics and new and old poems. Among them, March of the Volunteers was composed by Nie Er and was designated as the national anthem of the people of China. The adaptation of famous dramas such as Tiger Catching Night, Death of Famous Brand, Chaos Bell, Song of Rejuvenation, Two Ways, Guan Hanqing and Princess Wencheng, as well as the drama scripts The Legend of the White Snake and Xie Yaohuan, fully embodies Tian Han's superb artistic and ideological depth. He is not only the founder of the revolutionary drama movement in China, but also the pioneer of drama reform.