409 years ago today, on April 23, 1616 (March 8, 1616 lunar calendar), the Chinese writer Tang Xianzu passed away. Tang Xianzu (1550-1616), the word meaning is still the same, and the number is several, also known as Hai Ruo, Qing Yun Taoist. Outstanding playwright and writer in the Ming Dynasty. Has an important position in the history of Chinese and world literature, known as "Shakespeare of the East". Tang's ancestral home was Yunshan Township, Linchuan County, and later moved to Tangjiashan (now Fuzhou City). Tang Xianzu was smart and studious from a young age, and was promoted to the middle school at the age of twenty-one. Because he refused to rely on the powerful, although he was erudite and talented, and "famous in the sky and soil", he was not promoted to the scholar until the age of thirty-four. Later, he served as the chief priest of Dr. Taichang, Zhan Fangzheng, and the priest of the In the 19th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1591), he witnessed the corruption of the bureaucracy at that time and went to "On the Auxiliary Minister Kechen Shu", impeached the great scholar Shen Shixing and attacked the dynasty, angered the emperor and was demoted as Xu Wen Dian Shi, and then transferred to Suichang County, Zhejiang Province. After a five-year term, he achieved remarkable political achievements, but he attracted the criticism of his superiors and the opposition of local forces because of his suppression of the tyrants and anger of the powerful. Finally, in the 26th year of Wanli (1598), he abandoned the official and returned to work, and devoted himself to drama and poetry creation.