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In 1938, Seck directed the play "Assault" in Xi'an.
In the early spring of 1938, on the hillside of a small village near Taiyuan, a group of villagers fled here to escape the killing of the Japanese invaders. Among them, there are teenagers who have just lost their parents, there are village chiefs with ancestral ranks, there are young women who have just died of their husbands and children, and there are old people who are still around with their little granddaughters. They witnessed the mutilation of their loved ones, the burning of their houses, and the burning anger in their chests. In order to get revenge, they unite with the villagers to launch a surprise attack on the enemy, and finally win the victory after paying a heavy price... These are some of the plots in the drama "Assault". "Assault" was co-created by Seck, Duanmu Hongliang, Nie Cyan and Xiao Hong from the Northwest Field Service Regiment on the train from Linfen to Xi'an. In March 1937, after the Northwest Field Service Regiment led by Ding Ling came to Xi'an, with the help of the Eighth Route Army Office in Shaanxi, the performance of "Assault" in Xi'an Yi Folk Society was a great success, which greatly stimulated the anti-Japanese enthusiasm of the people of Xi'an. Comrade Zhou Enlai also gave them great encouragement when he received the playwrights and cast members at the Eighth Route Army's office in Shaanxi. Mao Dun published an article praising at the time: "The biggest advantage of the three-act drama of "Assault" is the truth. It is also mentioned: "According to Duanmu Hongliang, 'in fact, it is all Seck alone', but those who participated in the opinions and discussed the words and sentences were Duanmu, Qiu, and Xiao Hong. ”
In 1938, Sai Ke (from left), Tian Jian, Nie Shuyi, Xiao Hong, Duanmu Hongliang, and Ding Ling were in Xi'an
Drama is like life, life is like drama. The experience of Seck, the main playwright, director and actor of the play "Assault", in his quest for revolutionary truths is also dramatic. Originally known as Chen Bingjun, Seck was born in 1906 to a peasant family in the south of Chengnan, Baxian County, Hebei Province. Little Seck grew up under the influence of the may fourth new culture, and gradually formed the idea of opposing feudal autocracy and pursuing freedom and democracy. In 1923, Seck ran away from home to Harbin because he rebelled against his father's arranged marriage.
While working as a police officer in Harbin, the 17-year-old was active in writing poetry and submitting them to the Morning Light Newspaper, and later became the editor of the Morning Light Newspaper. During this period, he was deeply influenced by the Communists associated with the newspaper, and published articles in the newspapers by Qu Qiubai and other Communists, and in 1926, he published articles welcoming the Northern Expeditionary Army into Wuhan. Seck was arrested and imprisoned for this. After being rescued by the newspaper and released, Seck went south to shanghai university to study fine arts and literature, and continued to publish poetry.
Read high hours of Seck
In 1927, Seik participated in the "Nanguo Society" led by Tian Han, and showed his outstanding acting talent in tian Han's "Nangui" drama written based on Seiko's experience, which became a sensation in Shanghai. But at this time, Seck was tired of this expression of projecting personal emotional experience into the play, and had no intention of nostalgia for the stage. Deeply influenced by Gorky's work, he longed for the Soviet Union and traveled to Harbin twice to seek relations with the Soviet Union. In 1931, after the Japanese occupied the northeast, Seik took a road sign written by a Soviet friend and crossed the border alone. Shortly after the border, Seck was imprisoned on suspicion of "international espionage" and was only able to return home a month later.
After returning to China, Seck joined the Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army. He commented on himself at this time: "In literature and art, I had a long time when my mood and style could not be changed, and the reason was that there was no life. After the '9/18' incident, there was a change in literature and art. This change was only facilitated by the setbacks in the Soviet Union, the enemy's occupation of the northeast, and the destruction of the country and the family. Since then, his style of writing has changed, as he wrote in "Thirty Million Displaced Persons": "Imperialist artillery fire / Aimed at the hungry people / The blue sky has been torn apart by the bloody hands of sin / The long sky is shining with bloody rain / We hold the greatest hatred / We fight for the last determination ..."
In 1934, Secker played Li Zhichao in the movie "Same Hate"
In 1930, Seck returned to Shanghai and formed or participated in the "Dadi Drama Society", "Xindi Drama Society", "Lion Roar Drama Society", "Tuosheng Drama Society", "Shanghai Star Film Company", and created the anti-Japanese drama "Iron Team" that reflected the uprising of the Volunteer Army, performing "Sunrise" and "Same Hatred", which contributed to the early film and drama art in China. He also translated gorky's "Nightclub" and the lyrics of many Soviet songs, and co-created a large number of anti-Japanese songs with Xian Xinghai, He Luting, Wang Luobin and others, such as "National Salvation Army Song", "Anti-Enemy Vanguard", "Heart Hate", and became an important lyricist of China's salvation songs and one of the standard-bearers of the New Music Movement. He participated in the organization of the Chinese Songwriters Association and the First Team of Salvation Drama, and participated in the All-China Theater Anti-Enemy Association and the Northwest Field Service Group.
In the 1940s, Seck was in Yan'an
In May 1938, Seck left the Northwest Field Service For Xinjiang, hoping to realize his Soviet dream, but this plan did not materialize. So he came to Yan'an, where he served as a professor at the Lu Xun Art Institute in Yan'an, directing the plays "Before and After September 18" and "Minister of Chincha". And once again cooperated with his old friend Xian Xinghai to create songs such as "Manchurian Prisoner's March", "Production Chorus", "March 8Th women's Day Song" and so on. After that, Seik served as the president of the Yan'an Youth Art Theater, a senator of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region, and a member of the Cultural Work Committee of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region Government.
Middle-aged Seck
After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Saike successively served as the director of the Rehe Provincial Federation of Literature and Literature, the deputy director of the Education Department of the Liaobei Provincial Government and the vice president of the Liaobei College, the president of the Northeast Lu Xun Literary and Art College, and the president of the Northeast People's Art Theater. After 1953, he served as an advisor to the Central Experimental Opera House (later renamed the Chinese Opera and Dance Theatre).
Resources:
The Collection of Seck, Heilongjiang University Press
Memorial Hall of the Lanzhou Office of the Eighth Route Army