Yu, 1946, born, is an art theorist, a scholar of China cultural history, an essayist, a former dean and professor of Shanghai Theatre Academy, and the president of Shanghai Writing Society. He has published many monographs on the history of Chinese and foreign art in Chinese mainland and Taiwan Province Province, and lectured in many universities and cultural institutions at home and abroad. 1987 was awarded the honorary title of "National Outstanding Contribution Expert" and was listed in the Who's Who of the World, the List of International Famous Scholars, the List of Outstanding Contributors and the Who's Who of the World in Five Thousand Years by the American Biography Association.

Ma Lan was born in Taihu County, Anhui Province, and her mother was an actress in the local Huangmei Opera Troupe. Affected by family factors, 13-year-old Malan wore a rag coat and walked into the gate of Anhui Art School with her luggage.

In the training room of Anhui Art School, Xiao Malan often practices alone until midnight. She said it was not for art, but for losing weight. On the stage of school graduation performance, Malan is just a handyman carrying props. After coming on stage, she stamped her feet and cried. It was her 18 birthday, and she vowed that the future would be better than when she 18.

Many people know Malan from 1984 CCTV Spring Festival Evening. At that time, she cut her hair short and wore a plaid skirt. The whole person is like a fragrant orchid. Since then, her stage image has also been deeply rooted in people's hearts, including The Dragon Girl, Eating Hard, The Story of the West Chamber and the later TV series Yan Fengying. She showed the beauty of Huangmei Opera to the audience, so the audience remembered Huangmei Opera and Malan.

The acquaintance between Malan and Yu is quite interesting. By that time, Malan had become a minor celebrity. An old expert gave her a book "Special Topics on Artistic Creation" and told her that as an artist, she must read this book. The old expert annotated every page of the book and approved many words. Malan thought, what kind of person is the author of this book, which makes the old experts value it so much?

Yu Yu, who became the youngest liberal arts professor in China at that time with a series of writings, was in high spirits at that time. When some newspapers denounced jeans as "mental pollution" and approved another batch, he put on jeans and worked as a cowboy for several years, and was called "Professor Cowboy". He also resolutely resigned as the dean of the Shanghai Theatre Academy, which is the kind of temperament middleman who can't be anxious.

That year, Malan went to Shanghai to perform "Yao Zhi Xing Hua Cun", so he wrote a letter to Yu and put a note in the letter, hoping that he could come to the theatre. At the curtain call, Malan looked around and saw a man striding onto the stage to greet her loudly: Hey, Malan! I am Yu!

It was that loud greeting that brought a couple closer and finally brought them together and became husband and wife.