Hong Shen's former residence

In 1934, Hong Shen came to Qingdao and replaced Liang Shiqiu as the director of the Foreign Languages Department of Shandong University (now Ocean University of China). During that time, he once lived here beside the University. Hongshen's former residence is a two-story German style building, with tall hall, arched windows, green brick and gray tile, Gothic roof It's very spacious. Hongshen's former residence is also the most luxurious one among the former residences of modern cultural celebrities in Qingdao. The house's crooked steps are very distinctive. A section of spacious steps is built according to the terrain. They are picked up and separated on both sides. After that, they bypass a simple wall and enter the high courtyard. Then they can enter the living room through the stone steps.

Now this former residence has become an ordinary residence. You can visit it in the courtyard, but don't disturb the residents.

Hong Shen's former residence

Hongshen's former residence, No.1 Fushan Road, Shinan District, was built in 1932. Located at the north gate of Haida, east along Hongdao Road, at the intersection of Hongdao road and Fushan Road, the first former residence of celebrities is Hongshen's former residence at No.1 Fushan road. Hongshen's former residence was built at the foot of BAGUAN mountain, according to the mountain situation.

Surrounding the former residence

Through the two carved iron fence gates, facing the gate is a wide section of steps built along the terrain. After picking up the steps, the steps are separated on both sides, and then around a simple wall, enter the high courtyard, and then enter the living room through the stone steps. Hongshen's former residence is a two-story German style building, with tall hall, arched windows, green bricks and gray tiles, Gothic roof, very spacious and imposing. Through later understanding, this Hongshen old residence is also the most "generous" one among the former residences of modern cultural celebrities in Qingdao.

Hongshen's former residence is located at No.1 Fushan road at the foot of BAGUAN mountain. In 1934, Hong Shen came to Qingdao to replace Liang Shiqiu as the director of the Foreign Languages Department of Shandong University. Hong Shuzu, Hong Shen's father, once had a villa in Qingdao, named guanchuantai, but it was confiscated by the Japanese rulers. Hong Shen rents his house here. Combining his family experience and the humiliating history of Qingdao at that time, he created China's first film and literature script "peach blossom after robbery", which was shot by the star company at that time and starred by the movie queen Hu die.

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Hong Shen

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Hong Shen is a famous modern writer and dramatist. His father Hong Shuzu was the Secretary of the Ministry of interior in the early years of the Republic of China. Due to the assassination of Song Jiaoren, he fled to Qingdao in early 1913. Hong Shen studied in Beijing and lived in Qingdao during his summer vacation. In 1933, he came to Qingdao as the director of the Department of foreign languages of Shandong University. Besides teaching, he engaged in drama creation and performance activities. In 1934, combined with the imperialist invasion of Qingdao and his family's experience, Hong Shen created China's first film and literature script "peach blossom after robbery", and the post star film company produced the film of the same name. During his stay in Qingdao, Hong Shen also participated in the establishment of Tongren magazine "summer record".

In 1915, he began to write a play, "pear seller" is the first work inspired by Laoshan pear. Since then, he has been engaged in drama activities for a long time. In the summer of 1916, after graduating from Tsinghua University, he went to the United States to study Ceramic Engineering in Ohio State University, and continued to make and act. In 1919, he was admitted to the drama training class of Harvard University and became the first overseas student to study drama in China. He studied literature and drama at Harvard University in the United States, and studied at the sound performance school in Boston. He also studied performance, directing, stage technology, theater management and other courses at the drama school attached to the copperley theatre, and obtained a master's degree. In 1920, after graduating from school, he went to New York to perform in a professional troupe. The next year, he and Zhang Pengchun wrote the English drama Mulan joined the army. He returned to China in 1922 and returned to China in the spring of 1922. He first served as the director of the material General Management Office of Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Company Shanghai head office and concurrently as the private English Secretary of general manager Jian Zhaonan. In 1923, Zhao Yan Wang, the first play, played the leading role. In September of the same year, he joined the Drama Association as the director of rehearsal, and successively performed shrew and the end of life. From then on, he began to establish the experimental activities of modern Chinese drama. He established a formal directing system, carried out strict rehearsal, and realized the co performance of men and women, and changed the stage setting from the original plane to three-dimensional. These practices were the first in China at that time, which made the historical transformation of Chinese drama in the transition from civilized drama to modern drama. In April 1928, Hong Shen proposed to use the word "drama" to unify the appellation of drama at that time. In the winter of the same year, he joined Nanguo society and became the president of China Film School and director of star film company. In 1926, he founded Fudan Opera Club, and successively served as professor and director of Foreign Languages Department of Fudan University, Jinan University, Shandong University, Sun Yat sen University, Xiamen University, Beijing Normal University, etc. He has been engaged in teaching for 30 years.

Main works

His works are Hongshen anthology and Hongshen anthology. In his life, Hongshen has created and compiled 38 plays, most of which are based on real life and have distinctive characteristics of the times. For example, Zhao yanwang, wukuiqiao, Xiangmi, Bao Dexing, Jiming, early seeing the sky, etc. He also created many one act plays written by him, such as salted fish doctrine, smuggling, etc. He also wrote a large number of theoretical criticism works, introducing western drama knowledge. His theoretical works include the performing techniques of film and drama, the writing methods of film and drama, and the preliminary knowledge of drama director. Hong Shen's main achievement is in stage art. Over the past 30 years, he has directed about 40 plays, including "little grandma's fan", "the death of Li Xiucheng", "fascist bacteria", "hero of the grass", "Rooster crowing early to see the sky" and "beauty's journey". He attached great importance to the social effects of drama, and was able to use different writing methods for different plays. He is a director who is well versed in performing arts and is good at inspiring and inducing actors in various ways. The director's technique is diverse and creative, which has made great contribution to the cause of Chinese drama.

Artistic contribution

Hong Shen, with profound attainments and outstanding achievements in drama theory, is one of the few drama theorists in the history of modern literature. He emphasizes that drama is for the people, expresses the spirit of the times, advocates the principle of realistic creation, and constantly develops and enriches his theoretical discussion and sums up many useful experiences from the perspective of Chinese social life and national psychological habits, and from the practice of drama creation. His main works include Hongshen drama anthology, screenwriter's twenty eight questions, film and drama performance, screenwriting methods of film and drama, introduction to modern drama (Introduction to drama Anthology of Chinese New Literature), preliminary knowledge of drama director, recitation of drama words and poems, drama movement and education in China since the Anti Japanese war, etc, The content includes the theory of screenwriting, director, performance, phonics, recitation, lighting and scenery, stage art, world drama history, Chinese drama movement history, drama review and other fields. It not only provides a lot of valuable information, but also contains the author's insights. It is an important part of China's modern drama theory.

Shen Tu Shi, written by Hong Shen in 1924, is China's first film and literature script, and then he created young master Feng, early birth of a noble son, love and gold, singing girl red peony, old Beijing, peach blossom after robbery, old and new Shanghai More than 30 screenplays, such as "women's rights", "flowers of society", "long dreams at night", "beauty in troubled times", "sailing in the same boat", "Rooster crowing early to see the sky" (adapted from the drama of the same name), have opened up the way for the development of film literature.

Address: No.1 Fushan Road, Qingdao (intersection of Hongdao road and Fushan Road)

Longitude: 120.34092132143

Latitude: 36.064706285681

Traffic information: take bus No.220 to Qihe Road station and walk north for 200 meters

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