Cao Yu (1910-1996) was originally named Wan Jiabao and Xiaoshi. My ancestral home is Qianjiang, Hubei, and I was born in Tianjin. His father, Wan Dezun, studied at the Japanese NCO School and served as a guard and envoy after returning to China. His mother died only three days after giving birth to him. When I was a child, because my stepmother loved drama, she often went in and out of the theater with her stepmother, and I became interested in drama from an early age. 19 15 went to a private school and watched many Chinese and foreign novels and operas. He entered Nankai Middle School from 65438 to 0923, and soon joined the amateur drama group "Nankai New Troupe" and became an important backbone. 1September, 1928, he entered the Political Department of Nankai University. Because I didn't like political science courses, I transferred to the Department of Western Literature in Tsinghua University in the second year. During this period, I read many world famous works, especially ancient Greek tragedies, as well as famous plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov and O 'Neill. 1933 completed the first large-scale drama Thunderstorm, which has been brewing for five years. 1933 After graduating from college, I went to a middle school in Baoding to teach English. 1934 to teach in Tianjin Hebei Women's Teachers College. 1935 wrote another feature-length drama, Sunrise, and won the 1936 excellent screenplay award sponsored by Ta Kung Pao. 1936 at the invitation of Yu Shangyuan, he went to teach at Nanjing National Theatre Academy. 1937 after the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he moved to Chongqing with Nanjing Drama School and then moved to Jiang 'an County. During this period, he served as a lecturer in the "Anti-Japanese War Drama Lecture" and actively participated in anti-Japanese propaganda activities. 1939 created the anti-war drama Metamorphosis full of patriotic passion. 1940 wrote a long drama "Peking Man", which won the prize at the 1943 Drama Festival. 1942 From Jiang 'an to Chongqing, Ba Jin's novel Home was adapted into a play of the same name in the same year. 1946 was invited to give lectures in the United States with Lao She and returned to China at the beginning of the following year. He was hired as a director by Shanghai Wenhua Film Company. From 65438 to 0947, he wrote the film script Sunny Day, which reflected the painful life of the people in Kuomintang-controlled areas, and directed and produced it himself. 1949 Participated in China People's Political Consultative Conference in September, and was responsible for foreign cultural work. 10 the national academy of drama (central academy of drama) was established as the vice president. 1952 President of Beijing People's Art Theatre. 1in July, 954, he joined the China * * * production party and began to serve as the secretary of the Secretariat of the Chinese Writers Association. 1September, 954, published in Clear Sky. 1960 collaborated with Mei Qian and Yu Shizhi to write the historical drama "Bright Sword". During the Cultural Revolution, he was labeled as a "reactionary scholar". After the downfall of the Gang of Four, Wang Zhaojun, a five-act historical drama, was created in 1978, which aroused enthusiastic response. 1988 was elected executive chairman of the All-China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and continued to serve as president of the Beijing People's Art Theatre, honorary president of the Central Academy of Drama, and chairman of the Chinese Dramatists Association.