On April 9, 2003 (March 8, 2003 in the lunar calendar), the famous playwright Wu Zuguang passed away. Wu Zuguang was with his daughter. Text/Mr. Wu Zuguang, the famous playwright of "Today in History", died in Beijing on April 9, 2003 due to illness at the age of 86. Wu Zuguang, also known as Wu Zhaoshi and Wu Shao, was born in Wujin, Jiangsu Province. He was born in Beijing in 1917. He graduated from the University of China and France in 1936 with a degree in liberal arts. From 1937 to 1948, he served as a lecturer at Nanjing National Drama College. He was the director of Chongqing Central Youth Drama Club and China Drama Art Club. He was the editor of the supplement of Xinmin Evening News. He was the editor-in-chief of Qingming magazine. He was the editor and director of Hong Kong Greater China Film Company and the director of Hong Kong Yonghua Film Company. In 1937, Wu Zuguang created the anti-Japanese drama "Phoenix City", which became a powerful weapon in the national theater industry to fight against the Japanese invaders. In the following years, he created plays such as "Zhengqi Song", "Returning to Man in a Blizzard Night", "Lin Chong Night Run", "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" and "Youth Tour". In 1945, the supplement of "Xinmin Evening News" he edited was the first to publish Mao Zedong's poem "Qinyuan Spring and Snow". In 1946, he founded the "Luminous Cup" supplement of "Xinmin Evening News" and "Qingming" magazine in Shanghai, and also created "The Legend of Ghost Hunting" and the new drama "Chang'e Flying to the Moon" to denounce the reactionary rule of the Kuomintang, and later fled to Hong Kong under the persecution of the Kuomintang reactionaries. In 1947, he choreographed and directed films such as "Soul of the Country", "Don't Lose Youth", "Tears of Mountains and Rivers", "Spring Breeze and Autumn Rain" and "Returning to Man at Night of Blizzard and Snow" in Hong Kong. After the founding of New China, Wu Zuguang successively created films such as "Red Flag Song" and children's drama "Removing the Four Evils", which reflected the female spinning workers. After 1954, Wu Zuguang directed the films "Mei Lanfang Stage Art", "Luoshen" and "Desolate Mountain Tears", which left extremely precious materials for Mei Lanfang and Cheng Yanqiu, two masters of Peking Opera. In 1963, he collaborated with his wife Xin Fengxia to adapt the opera "Flowers as Media", which became a successful masterpiece on the stage of the opera. In addition, he has also created a large number of works such as "Wu Zetian", "Three Dozens of Tao Sanchun", "Breaking into the Jianghu", "The Legend of New Fengxia" and "Sanguan Banquet". He has served as a director of the Central Film Bureau and Beijing Film Studio, a director of the Mudanjiang Art Troupe, a screenwriter of the China Opera School, the China Academy of Opera, and the Beijing Peking Opera Theater. Professional creator of the Art Bureau of the Ministry of Culture, a member of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, a standing director and vice chairperson of the China Dramatists Association, and an honorary chairperson of Friendship Publishing Company. He is a member of the Fifth to Eighth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Wang Yuzhen poses with playwright Wu Zuguang