1902165438+102, Yang Hansheng was born in a family of silk tea merchants in Luo Chang, Gaoxian County, Sichuan Province.

In the 4th year of the Republic of China (19 15), Yang Hansheng studied in Gaoxian No.1 High School. In 7 years of the Republic of China (19 18), he advanced placement and was admitted to Xufu Middle School (now No.1 Middle School), with the best results.

1920 entered Chengdu Provincial No.1 Middle School. At school, influenced by the October Revolution and the May 4th Movement, he and Li Shuoxun spontaneously organized a socialist youth league, led the student movement, and opposed the bureaucratic principals who respected Confucius and read classics and were appointed by warlords. The student movement failed, and he was expelled from school and wanted by the government.

In the same year, Yang Hansheng visited party member Yun in Luzhou Chuannan Normal School. They talked for seven days and nights. Later, he said more than once: "Hui Daiying is the first light on my revolutionary journey."

1923, went to Beijing to study. During this period, I got to know Rola Chen, who was studying in China-France University.

/kloc-in the autumn of 0/924, he was admitted to the Department of Sociology of Shanghai University, and formally joined the Socialist Youth League of China in the same year.

1925 after the May 30th tragedy, he was sent to work for the All-China Students' Federation, participated in the work of the Shanghai Federation of Industry and Commerce on behalf of the All-China Students' Federation, assisted Xiao Chunv in editing the United Daily News of Industry and Commerce, and joined the Producers' Party of China in the same year.

At the beginning of 1926, Yang Hansheng was sent to Guangdong Huangpu Military Academy to serve as secretary and instructor of the political department of the enlisted health department and secretary of the branch of the enlisted health department. From then on, he began to work under the leadership of Zhou Enlai.

1927 After the "April 12th Incident", he was sent to the Political Department of the Sixth Army and the Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army to assist Lin and other work. After the "August 1st" Nanchang Uprising broke out, he joined the Southern Expedition of the Rebel Army, was appointed as the representative of the 24th Division, and participated in two Huichang battles. Later, he was transferred to the Secretary General of the Political Department of the Rebel Army. After the failure of the uprising, he returned to Shanghai from Hailufeng via Hong Kong. At the end of 1927, Yang Hansheng and Li Yimang joined the Creation Society, and * * * edited Quicksand Weekly and Sunrise Xun Magazine.

1928, at the request of Guo Moruo and with the approval of Zhou Enlai, Yang Hansheng went to the Creation Society to organize work, and also ran Quicksand Weekly and Sunrise Xunkan. During this period, he successively wrote 15 novels, such as Ma Linying, Night on the Barge, Toilet Room, and created eight novellas, such as Female Prisoner, Two Women, Volunteer, Diary of Middle School Students and Diquan, and began his revolutionary literary career.

In the winter of 1929, Shanghai literary and art circles organized the "Chinese Left-wing Writers' Union", and Yang Hansheng was one of the members of the preparatory group of 12. Since then, he has served as Secretary of the General Party Branch of the League of Leftist Writers, Youth League Committee of the Cultural Bureau of the League of Leftist Writers, and Cultural Work Committee of Shanghai C.O. (Wen Wei). During his work in the Left-wing Writers' Union and the General Writers' Union, Yang Hansheng led the work of the Left-wing Dramatists' Union, began to organize drama movements and began to write. He is the author of theoretical works "Research on Historical Materialism" and "Introduction to Social Science". His critical article "The Popularization of General Literature and Art" had a great influence in the left-wing literary movement.

1In March, 930, he participated in the organization and establishment of the "China Left-wing Writers' Union", and successively served as Party Secretary, Secretary of the Cultural Committee and Party Secretary of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and participated in the party's leadership over film and drama work. In the spring of 22 years of the Republic of China (1933), he wrote the first film literary script "Red Tears on the Iron Plate". During this period, he has written 18 movies (of which 13 was put on the screen) and 8 plays.

1February, 935, the Shanghai party organization was destroyed, and Yang Hansheng and Tian Han were arrested by the Kuomintang government at the same time. On June+10, 5438, Liu Yazi, Cai Yuanpei and others were rescued and released on bail pending trial, but they were unable to move freely. During the period of house arrest, he published 50 or 60 essays criticizing the Kuomintang authorities' non-anti-Japanese policy and the route of surrendering and traitorous, and wrote films such as New Female Soldiers, Life and Death Together, fun run, The Night Before and a number of theoretical works on drama films. It was not until 1937 that China reached the second cooperation agreement and the delegation of China producers arrived in Nanjing that they were free.

From 1928 to 1932, he wrote more than 10 short stories and 8 novellas, among which the novel Diquan consists of Depth, Transformation and Renaissance, which reflects the rural land revolution, urban workers' movement and intellectuals' life struggle during the Great Revolution. 1932, the "Left League" set up a film group, and Yang Hansheng wrote the screenplay "Red Tears on the Iron Plate" and "Angry Tide in China", which were the earliest works in China's films that reflected the revolutionary struggle and anti-imperialist and anti-feudal requirements.

At the end of 1936, Yang Hansheng wrote the first drama "The Eve", which raised the issue of anti-civil war and anti-surrender in literary style earlier.

/kloc-in the autumn of 0/937, Yang Hansheng was ordered by the Changjiang Bureau to work in the anti-Japanese United front in the literary and art circles. He, Hong Shen, Tian Han and others, together with Wuhan's dramas, opera figures, and Kuomintang cultural figures, raised money for the North China Volunteers and staged a joint performance, which featured The Final Victory directed by Hong Shen and starring Jinshan. After the meeting, the All-China Drama Anti-Enemy Association proposed to create an anti-Japanese United front in the drama industry. Then, he and Feng Naichao, Lao She and others successively initiated and organized the All-China Film Anti-Enemy Association and the All-China Literature and Art Anti-Enemy Association to unite literary and art people in the anti-Japanese and national salvation struggle. In the same year, he created five historical dramas, Death of Li Xiucheng, which had a great influence in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War.

1in the spring of 938, the Political Department of the Military Commission of the National Government was established in Wuhan, and Yang Hansheng served as the chief secretary of the Three Pavilions to assist Guo Moruo in organizing the work. 1938, at the request of Zhao Dan, Tao Jin and others, Yang Hansheng adapted the movie script "The Storm on the Frontier" into four plays. The performance is very extensive.

1939, the Kuomintang government set off an anti-* * climax, coercing people from the three churches to join the Kuomintang collectively. The progressives headed by Guo Moruo collectively launched three protests. The authorities adopted the policy of imprisonment and set up a "Cultural Work Committee" on 1940, with Guo Moruo as the director and Yang Hansheng as the deputy director. 194 1 In the spring of, under the promotion and leadership of Yang Hansheng, China Dramatic Art Society, a folk troupe composed of He Chen, was established. In September of the same year, Yang Hansheng created six historical dramas, The Spring and Autumn Period of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was premiered by China Dramatic Art Society and aroused strong repercussions. Since the winter of this year, the progressive drama forces have held performances in Chongqing in the foggy season. At that time, Yang Hansheng was the director of the director's office of China Film Studio, and he joined many film actors in the drama performance. At the same time, he also participated in the discussion on the creation of historical drama, national form and the establishment of realistic drama system, and criticized the bad tendency in the drama movement in the rear area. From 65438 to 0942, he wrote five historical dramas "Heroes of Grass", which reflected the struggle of Lu Bao Comrades' Association in Sichuan on the eve of the Revolution of 1911. The censors of the Kuomintang ordered "no publication, no performance and confiscation of the script", and it was not until 1945 signed the "Double Tenth Agreement" that the script was staged.

1943 wrote a four-act satirical comedy Two-faced Man (also known as Heaven and Earth Huang Xuan), which profoundly criticized the class egoism of the Kuomintang authorities during the Anti-Japanese War. 1944 wrote a five-act drama "Song of Flowers". The script praises the patriotic spirit of the Korean people with beautiful language and rich poems. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, under the leadership of Nanfang Bureau, Yang Hansheng, Feng Naichao and other organizations guided the demobilization of China Drama Club and various anti-enemy drama clubs. Then he returned to Shanghai, established Kunlun Film Company, and created the films "Lights at Home" and "San Mao Wandering". At the same time, he was entrusted by the * * * organization to organize a drama movement with Yu Ling and others in the Kuomintang-ruled area with Shanghai as the center to carry out the anti-Chiang democratic struggle.

1949 arrived in Beiping via Hongkong in March, and participated in the preparatory work for the first national congress of literary and art workers, and was elected as the chairman of China Literary and Art Workers Association, Chinese Dramatists Association and China Film Artists Association.

After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), Yang Hansheng successively served as member and deputy secretary-general of the Culture and Education Commission of the State Council, deputy director of the Prime Minister's Office, vice-chairman and secretary-general of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, member of the Central International Activities Steering Committee and vice-president of the Foreign Cultural Association.

From 65438 to 0960, he wrote four plays "Trilateral" with the theme of intellectuals participating in land reform, which were performed by the Central Experimental Theatre and won the first prize of the Ministry of Culture.

1964' s film "Northland Jiangnan" was criticized by Kang Sheng, Jiang Qing and other planning agencies nationwide. During the Cultural Revolution, he was tortured by innocent imprisonment for nine years. During the Cultural Revolution, he suffered unfair treatment and was imprisoned for nine years.

1979 After being rehabilitated in February, he resumed his work and was elected as the executive vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles. He was also elected as a deputy to the Eighth and Twelfth National Congresses in communist party, China, a member of the First, Second and Third China People's Political Consultative Conference, and a member of the Standing Committee of the Fifth and Sixth China People's Political Consultative Conference.

Yang Hansheng has been a writer all his life. In the course of nearly half a century, he has created 2 social science works, 8 novellas, 10 short stories, 17 movie scripts, 8 drama scripts, nearly 200 new and old poems, 2 diaries, several literary papers and dozens of memoirs. Compiled and published 1 volume of Selected Plays of Yang Hansheng, 2 volumes of Selected Plays of Yang Hansheng and 5 volumes of Collected Works of Yang Hansheng. In addition, he also wrote a series of memoirs, which were included in Fifty Years of Wind and Rain. Yang Hansheng created more than 7 million words of literary and artistic works in his life.

1In May, 983, 80-year-old Yang Hansheng returned to his haunted hometown and wrote poems such as "Going home to visit relatives" and "Back to Yibin".

Yang Hansheng was born in1and died in Beijing on June 7, 1993 at the age of 9 1. The eulogy issued by Xinhua News Agency called him "party member, an outstanding producer in China, a loyal Marxist literary fighter, one of the pioneers of the New Culture Movement in China, and an outstanding leader in the literary and art circles."