Cao Yu (1910-1996), formerly known as Wan Jiabao, was born in Qianjiang, Hubei, and his ancestral home was in Tianjin. I grew up in a rich family and often had the opportunity to watch civilized dramas and traditional old dramas, which cultivated my interest in drama. /kloc-in the spring of 0/923, he entered Nankai Middle School and joined Nankai New Troupe. From 65438 to 0928, he enrolled in the preparatory course of the Political Department of Nankai University, and transferred to the Western Literature Department of Tsinghua University in the following year, and extensively dabbled in western literature, especially drama literature. 1933 graduated from university, went to teach in Yude Middle School in Baoding, Hebei Province, and entered Tsinghua Research Institute to study drama a few months later.

When Cao Yu was in middle school, he began to contribute to magazines and participate in drama performances under his pseudonym. Before graduating from college, I wrote a script of Thunderstorm, which was published in the July issue of Literature Quarterly, 1934. 1In September, 935, she returned to Tianjin and taught in the Foreign Languages Department of Hebei Women's Normal University. Sunrise was released on 1936. In August of the same year, he was invited to teach at Nanjing National Drama School, and then moved to Changsha and Chongqing with the school. At the beginning of 1942, he resigned from the teaching post of the National Academy of Drama and engaged in drama creation and directing activities. 1March, 946, he and Lao She went to the United States to give lectures at the invitation of the State Council. 1947 1 returned to China to teach at Shanghai Theatre Academy. Later, he served as the director of Shanghai Wenhua Film Company, writing and directing Sunny Days. Under the arrangement of China * * * production party, he secretly transferred to Hong Kong at the end of 1948 and arrived in the liberated area through Yantai, and went to Beijing to attend the preparatory meeting of the new political consultative conference in February of 1949.

After the establishment of China government, Cao Yu served as the vice president of the Central Academy of Drama. 1June, 952, Beijing People's Art Theatre was established, with Cao Yu as the dean. He was criticized during the Cultural Revolution and guarded the reception room in Beijing People's Art Troupe and dormitory. 1978, the original name of Beijing People's Art Theatre was restored, and Cao Yu served as the dean again, completing the script of Wang Zhaojun. 1996 12 13 died in Beijing.