The name Xia Yan is no stranger to people like Lin Jian Quanyun who were born in the 1950s and 1960s. Although the meaning of the articles that once criticized the "Four Hanzi" was not fully understood, the names of Zhou Yang, Xia Yan, Tian Han, and Yang Hansheng can still be clearly remembered.
Xia Yan's works seem to have not been read much, but Xia Yan's reportage "The Bonded Worker" and his adaptations of the film "Eternal Life in the Fire", "Blessing", "Lin Family Shop" and so on, are impressive.
Coming to Shanghai, a place where literati gathered, Lin JianQuanyun walked into xia Yan's former residence not far away, and had an immersive feeling and further understanding of this famous literary master.
Xia Yan's former residence is located in a garden-style house with English architecture on Urumqi South Road in Xuhui District, Shanghai. In this humble small Western-style building, Xia Yan worked and lived here for 6 years from 1949 to 1955. In the long river of his 95 spring and autumn life, it may be only a brief moment.
However, in these 6 years, it is the time when his task is the heaviest and the busiest work. Xia Yan served as deputy director of the Cultural and Educational Committee of the East China Military Control Commission, where he met with people in the literary and art circles every day, took over various cultural units, learned about the situation of the cultural contingent, reported the situation to mass organizations, publicized the party's cultural policy, and united people in cultural circles to jointly build a new China.
In March 1950, when he was a member of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, the director of the Propaganda Department, the director of the Cultural Bureau, and the director of the Shanghai People's Art Theater, he also worked tirelessly and created the drama "Test".
Born in 1900, Xia Yan, formerly known as Shen Naixi, is a native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang. In addition to living and studying in his hometown of Hangzhou as a young man, he participated in the May Fourth Movement in 1919, went to Japan to study in 1921, and returned to Shanghai in 1927 to join the Communist Party of China.
In fact, Xia Yan has lived in 4 residences in Shanghai for 30 years, and has a deep indissoluble relationship with Shanghai. He joined the party in Shanghai, got married, established the Left League, founded the "Salvation Daily", founded the Left-Wing Drama Society, and wrote, translated, and published a large number of books, plays, and articles.
Xia Yan's Former Residence is a three-storey brick and wood garden villa with a mix of British and Spanish architectural styles. At that time, the first floor was the living room and the guards and staff rooms, the second floor was the Xia Yan family, and the third floor was another household. In the garden in front of the building, the 2 camphor trees planted by Xia Yan himself have stood tall and leafy.
Today, the first floor of the former residence is an exhibition hall with the theme of "Xia Yan and Shanghai", which sorts out the footprints of Xia Yan's life in Shanghai and shows the historical events of Xia Yan in Shanghai that have the characteristics of red culture and Shanghai culture.
The second floor restores the original appearance of Xia Yan when he lived. The furnishings in the bedroom are the original objects that Xia Yan moved from here to Beijing, and was later donated by his children and moved back to Shanghai.
The study room is the place where Xia Yan handles official business, work and creation during his stay here. He has written many film scripts and literary works here.
Throughout Xia Yan's life, the bumpy life path and the turbulent era of change have created him to endure hardships and struggle tenaciously for the ideas and beliefs in his mind without complaint or regret.
Xia Yan, who is legendary inside and outside the play, interprets the distinct trajectory and cultural memory of the changes in the era of the past century. The ill-fated experience, the ups and downs of life, the unswerving feelings, and a relatively complete image of Xia Yan were suddenly clear and tall in my heart.
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