January 17, 1908 was the birthday of Mr. Shen Yiqian, a famous patriotic painter during the Anti-Japanese War. Mr. Shen Yiqian was born in Jiabao County, Shanghai. "Nine. After the 18th Incident, he painted the first anti-Japanese propaganda painting in Shanghai.

After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he was active in various major battlefields and guerrilla battlefields behind enemy lines. He has painted Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Deng Yingchao, Zhu De, He Long, etc., and received their autographs and recognition. Mao Dun called these portraits "historical materials of the Anti-Japanese War." On the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival in 1944, Mr. Shen Yiqian was killed in Chongqing at the age of 36.