On October 18, 2008 (September 20, 2008 in the lunar calendar), the third generation of Chinese director Xie Jin passed away. On October 18, 2008, the famous Chinese director Xie Jin passed away in Shangyu, Zhejiang. Xie Jin was a famous director of Shanghai Film Group. Born in 1923, he was from Shangyu, Zhejiang. His main representative works include "Women's Basketball No. 5", "Red Women's Army", "Wrangler", "Legend of Tianyun Mountain", "Opium War", "Furong Town" and so on. The picture shows Xie Jin attending the opening ceremony of the 9th Shanghai International Film Festival in Shanghai in 2006. Xie Jin and Li Hanxiang Liu Xiaoqing are the irrefutable benchmark in the history of Chinese mainland film as the third generation of film directors. Since making films in 1953, he has made 35 films such as "Women's Basketball No. 5", "Red Detachment of Women", "Legend of Tianyun Mountain", "Wreath Under the Mountain", "Furong Town" and so on, almost all of which have become classics without exception. So in 2005, which coincided with the centenary of Chinese cinema, it was indeed expected that Xie Lao would be inducted into the "Centennial Hall of Fame of Chinese Film" at the age of 82. In fact, Xie Jin almost fought to the "last moment". Zhang Jianya, vice president of the China Film Directors Association and chairman of the Shanghai Film Association, revealed that when he met Xie Lao in Beijing in June 2008, he said that he was working on several scripts and that he had to make at least three movies, one of which was a work about the historical changes of Shanghai in the past few decades. Xie Jin, who was eager to create, also recommended several novels to Zhang Jianya. And his support for backward progress is even more famous. Liu Xiaoqing, Jiang Wen, Pan Hong, Zhao Wei... These famous stars have all entered the front line of Chinese film under his guidance and support. As the film critic Jia Leilei said: "His distinct personal aesthetic style and strong narrative ability are worthy of learning by today's film directors." This may be Xie Jin's spiritual value and artistic legacy. Looking at Xie Lao's films, there is no hype about stunt production, nor intense fighting scenes. It is just a story told, but it has become a classic of an era. It is precisely because of the classic image of the protagonist in the film that he gradually becomes familiar with the actors behind him. This is the most successful state of the film. In contrast, the current film has not been shot before speculation, and it seems that only the gimmick on the star can be used as a weight for the success of the film, and the blind requirement to win international awards is the real success, and this trend is intensifying. Some commentators believe that Xie Lao's death has made the already impulsive Chinese film even worse, and it may be time for Chinese directors to reflect. Sadly, in less than 60 days, Xie Jin and director Xie Yan passed away one after another. Xie Yan, who was only 59 years old, died of lung cancer and staged the tragedy of "white-haired people send black-haired people". Xie Lao was hit by this, but he told his friends that he would stand up. Zhang Hongsen, deputy director of the Film Bureau of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television of China, said that Xie Jin, as the best film artist in China, will be remembered forever, and the best thing everyone can do to commemorate him is to carry forward his enthusiasm for film and use his actions to fulfill Xie's unfinished film dream. From 1948 to 2003, he directed 36 films. His works are known for their realism, and he is good at organically combining the fate of characters with the social environment, paying attention to the expression of characters' feelings and the characterization of characters' characters' characters. In 1957, Xie Jin completed his famous film "Women's Basketball No. 5", which is also China's first color sports feature film. The film "Red Detachment of Women" shot in 1960 is one of Xie Jin's important works in the early stage of film. The film describes the battle process of Wu Qionghua, a bitter slave girl in Hainan in the 1930s, growing into a proletarian soldier. The film won 4 awards including Best Feature Film and Best Director at the first Hundred Flowers Film Awards in 1962. Subsequently, Xie Jin filmed the film "Stage Sisters", which starred the group of Vietnamese opera actresses. The film has a strong local atmosphere and won the British Film Institute Annual Award in 1980. The film "Legend of Tianyun Mountain", which had a strong response after its release in 1980, is a masterpiece by Xie Jin. It tells the different experiences, different personalities and conflicts between the three heroines in the long historical background from the mid-1950s to 1979. The film won the 1980 Ministry of Culture Excellent Film Award, the first Golden Rooster Award for Best Picture and Best Director, and the fourth Hundred Flowers Award for Best Picture. In 1981, Xie Jin made the film "The Wrangler", which won the Ministry of Culture's Outstanding Film Award in 1982 and the Best Film Award at the 6th Hundred Flowers Awards. Xie Jin's 1984 film "Wreath Under the Mountain" won the first prize for excellent film at the Ministry of Culture in 1984 and the Best Film Award at the 8th Hundred Flowers Awards. In 1987, Xie Jin made another important work "Furong Town", which reflects the bumpy and tragic fate of Hu Yuyin, a rural woman in western Hunan under the political movement in the 1960s and 1970s. The film won the 10th Hundred Flowers Film Award and the 7th Chinese Film Golden Rooster Award for Best Feature Film in 1987. In 1997, Xie Jin made another innovative move in the Chinese film industry. He raised 100 million yuan through private fund-raising to shoot the historical film "Opium War". The film set a record not only for domestic film investment at that time, but also for domestic films at the domestic box office. The film later won the Best Feature Film Award at the 17th Golden Rooster Awards and the "Special Award for the Americas" at the Montreal International Film Festival in Canada. Yin Hong, a professor at Tsinghua University, was deeply shocked to hear of Xie Jin's death. He said: "Xie Jin is an outstanding representative of the third generation of Chinese directors. His directorial career spans a long time and has always been in step with the times. From the early "Red Detachment of Women", to the "Legend of Tianyun Mountain" and "The Wrangler" after the reform and opening up... He is a director who can influence the mainstream of film in different times and represent the highest achievements of Chinese film culture. Xie Jin has a strong sense of social responsibility and has created many classic film works with popular film narration methods. "Lu Shaoyang, an associate professor at Peking University, said:" Xie Lao has been at the forefront of the times for 50 years, representing the highest achievements of Chinese film. He has a characteristic that he can always capture the pulse of the times and the country in the most timely and boldest, embodying the voice of the people, so he is deeply loved by the people. "In his 60 years of filmmaking, Xie Jin has directed many films that have won awards both internationally and domestically. He is also currently the most awarded film director in China. But at the same time as harvesting flowers and honors, Xie Jin said before his death:" After so many storms, I don't care about winning awards. I care about whether the film can survive. Because the final judge is history, time and the people. "