Tian Han(1898--1968)
¡¡ He is the founder of Chinese Revolutionary Drama Movement and the pioneer of Drama Reformation Movement. Born in a farmer¡¯s family in Maoping Village, Changsha County in 1898, Tian Han studied at Changsha Normal School and was regarded highly by Xu Teli, the founder of Changsha Normal School. He studied at Japan and became a member of Chinese Communist Party in 1932. Once a secretary of the party branch in left-wing Writers Union, he was appointed as the director general of Arts Bureau, chairman and secretary of the party branch of Chinese Dramatists¡¯ Association, vice Chairman of National Cultural Circles Federation, and a member of the Fourth National Political Consultative Council. Tian Han created and adapted more than 130 plays; moreover, he composed The March of the Volunteers, which was validated as the national anthem of China.
Xu Guangda(1908--1969)
¡¡Born in Dong Village, Changsha county, Xu Guangda was admitted to Changsha Normal School in 1921. He joined Chinese Communist Party in 1925, enrolled in the Whampoa Military Academy in 1926 and participated in August 1 Nanchang Uprising in 1927. He was once a platoon leader, a company commander, a colonel, a chief of staff, a commissar, a division commander, a commander of Weishu borough, Yan¡¯an, served concurrently as the commander of second independent brigade and the commander of north-west military area, a deputy commander of Yanmen military area, a commander of the third unit of the field army in northwest China, a commander of the first field army in the second corps. After liberation, he was appointed as a commander of armoured corps, a vice-minister of Chinese Ministry of Defence as well as was awarded the title of Great General in 1955. Furthermore, he was elected as a member of Central Committee in the year of 1956.
Liao Mosha(1907--1990)
¡¡He was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu in 1907 while took Liao Jialong, Changsha county as his original family home. In 1922, he studied at Changsha Normal School, Class 6. In addition, he was approved as an alternate party member in 1930. After working as the chief editor in various newspaper offices such as Chongqing and Hong Kong, he was transferred to Beijing and appointed as the Municipal Committee Member of the Chinese Communist Party, the vice president of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) of Beijing CPPCC and the Committee Member of the 3rd,5th, 6th CPPCC in 1949. In 1961, cooperating with Deng Tuo and Wu Han, he created essays column Reading Notes of Sanjia Village. Liao Mosha passed away in 1990 in Beijing, leaving us a great amount of works such as the four columns of Liao Mosha corpus.
Liu Ying (1905--2002)
¡¡She was born in Jin Jing Town of Changsha County in 1905 and was admitted into Changsha Normal College (the name was Changsha Women¡¯s College at that time) in 1924. Recommended by Xu Teli, he was approved as a member of Chinese Communist Party during the college period. During the Red Army Long-march in 1934, she married Zhang Wentian in Yan¡¯an, who was the principal of Party Central Committee at that time. During the Anti-Japan War, he was appointed as the division chief of the Central Secretariat as well as the member of Standing Committee and the Minister of Organizational Department in Liaoning Province during the War of Liberation. After the foundation of the People¡¯s Republic of China, he was appointed as the assistant of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Department and the Standing Committee of the Central State. After the year of 1978, he was elected as the member of Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People¡¯s Political Consultative Conference and Standing Committee of Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. He was the delegate of the 7th, 8th, 14th, 15th CPC National Congress as well as the delegate of the second National People¡¯s Congress.