Movie Show to Kick off in Commemoration of Lao She

February 3 will witness the 102-year birthday of Lao She, "the people's artist" in China. To commemorate this great man of letters, Beijing Lao She Art and Culture Foundation will from now on kick off a serial of movie show of Lao She's works, and it will last till the mid-February.

Nurtured in an ambience of Beijing culture, the classical works of Lao She have been highly valued both in east and west. And aside from that eight pieces of his works were adapted into movies, the most numerous among the masters of Chinese literature in the 20th century.

The artist showed his great sympathy toward the people living at the bottom of the society in old China and devoted much of his efforts to describing their sufferings, which finally turned out to be the paragon in the art world of movies and in Chinese literature.

During the movie show, the black and white films, such as "This Life of Mine", "Dragon Whiskers Ditch", and the colored ones like the "Rickshaw Boy", "The Teahouse", the "Crescent Moon", the "Drum Singers" and "The Divorce" will be put on show.

Lao She, who died in August 1966, is one of the most important writers in China's Literary history. He had gained a great reputation both in China and foreign countries by creating the literary style of describing the life of common people using concise Beijing dialect. His representative work include Teahouse, Divorce, Yueya'er, etc.

By PD Online staff member Yin Zhili

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