Feng Tao knows Xiao Meiyu because of his experience as an actor. Originally from Xingtou Village, Nanhai County, GD Province, Feng Tao was born on January 2, 1920 in the TJ Concession, where his father was a senior employee www.biquge.info of a steamship company and traveled around the world. Whenever Mr. Feng goes to a country, he buys postcards that reflect the customs of that country. These postcards are very helpful for the young Feng Tao to broaden his horizons and increase his knowledge. When he was 12 years old, due to the change of his father's livelihood, the family moved to SH Just a few days after arriving in SH, he caught up with the 128 incident of RB devils attacking SH, which made him Feng Tao personally feel the national humiliation of China although it is big, but always under the enemy's gun.

Feng Tao was particularly good at school, skipping grades twice and going on to higher education, and in 1936, at the age of 16, he was successfully admitted to a university in SH. But the university only lasted for a year, and on August 13, 1937, the RB devils invaded SH Feng Tao's university again and were bombed by devil planes. To escape the fighting, the family was forced to flee into a foreigner-controlled public concession. At this time, my father was seriously injured during the bombing and lost his job, the family had no financial resources, my younger brother had lung disease and needed to pay for medical treatment, my sister had to go to school, and the whole family needed to eat. In order to solve the livelihood of the whole family, Feng Tao, as the eldest son, must take on the burden of supporting the family. So, 17-year-old Feng Tao resolutely made the decision to interrupt his university studies to earn a living and earn money.

After being introduced by a friend, Feng Tao joined a theater troupe. Because of his handsome appearance and tall stature, he was selected by the director to play the leading role. In May 1938, Feng Tao made his debut in the SH Concession and starred in the drama "Peach Blossom in the Peach Blossom Garden", and the first performance was very popular with the audience. Since then, Feng Tao has continued to receive invitations to perform, and within a year, he has performed in seven dramas and two movies.

Feng Tao's rapid rise to popularity attracted the attention of the Japanese puppet authorities. There was a big traitor who had inspected the school as a senior official before August 13, and met Feng Tao several times and encouraged Feng Tao. In February 1939, the big traitor sent someone to bring a sum of money to tell Feng Tao that he was invited to appear in a drama that promoted the so-called Sino-Japanese friendship. If you are interested in politics, you can also arrange important positions. Faced with temptation, Feng Tao of course refused.

But soon, the thugs under the big traitor sent him a threatening letter, threatening, "The old gentleman invited you out of the mountain because he looked up to you and lifted you, if you toast and don't eat and drink, be careful of the consequences!" Subsequently, Feng Tao discussed with his family, and the family moved to Hong Kong in March of that year for safety reasons.

When he arrived in Hong Kong, Feng Tao continued to act in dramas and movies. In February 1940, Feng Tao went to the rear with a consolation group in Hong Kong. During his time at ZQ, the film company was preparing to shoot the movie "Defending Changsha" and asked him to play the leading role. After the performance, it was another hit in the rear. Because he also became popular in the rear, and since then he has developed in the rear.

Just when he was proud, he suddenly encountered the first low point in his career. In late August 1940, a newspaper suddenly published an article signed "Fang Anjian" entitled "The Drama Doesn't Know the Hatred of the Country, Crosses the River and Sells Backyard Flowers", saying that at the critical moment when the Japanese invaders are approaching step by step, the national disaster is deep, and ZQ has been bombed by devil planes in a row, Feng Tao, as an actor, recently openly refused to perform the drama "Eight Hundred Broken One Hundred Thousand" and the movie "A Thousand Miles from Danger", which reflect the resistance to foreign aggression and invigorate the national spirit, but successively performed three vulgar and glamorous dramas such as "The Romance of the Fallen Son" that purely reflect the love of men and women. It's outrageous. The article also quoted a line from "The Romance of the Fallen Son": "As long as you enjoy the beauty and happiness today, who cares if the sky will overturn tomorrow?" To sarcastically mock Feng Tao, "everything in my heart has been spoken". The article also took stock of all the dramas and movies that Feng Tao has participated in since he started his art, saying that except for Cao Yu's drama "Thunderstorm" and "Defending Changsha" filmed this year, the rest are all vulgar works that depict the erotic love between men and women, and the article also appealed, "In view of Feng Tao's fact that he is only keen on the peach blossom in the peach blossom garden, ignoring the national disaster, I implore the audience to boycott Feng Tao and not go to see any of Feng Tao's performances." ”

After the article was published, it was quickly reprinted by many newspapers, which made Feng Tao not embarrassed. He hurriedly wrote an article to defend that the reason why he did not participate in "Eight Hundred Broken One Hundred Thousand" and "A Thousand Miles of Adventure" was because he found that these two scenes were too false and would mislead the audience. He said that when he was just in college, he consulted many teachers in the history department, and the so-called example of Yue Fei commanding 800 elite soldiers of the Song Dynasty to defeat 100,000 Jin troops is not at all in history, and it was completely compiled by the Qing Dynasty novelist Qian Cai in "The Complete Biography of Yue", so the formal historical works do not mention the matter of 800 breaking 100,000 yuan. Repeating such a false drama now will mislead the audience and make the audience think that since there have been 800 and 100,000 cases in history, why not make 800 and 100,000 in today's War of Resistance?

As for "A Thousand Miles Away", it is a story about a **** agent who infiltrated behind enemy lines to reconnoitre, and then broke through the devil's encirclement and interception, and successfully returned to the **** defense area. Feng Tao said that he read the script and found that the content was too fake. In the play, the agent was surrounded by devils, and he actually fought with dozens of gun-ending devils with his bare hands, and the devils suffered heavy casualties. The devil drove a plane to chase him, and he actually jumped from the ground to the sky, got into the cabin, and kicked the two devil pilots off the plane. Feng Tao said, "Since **** has such a master, why don't the devils ask him to clean up after the plane goes to the sky?" Do the people in the rear still need to suffer from the devil's air raids? ”

Although his defense article was published in the newspaper, the detractor immediately published an article to reprimand him, saying that even if there was a problem with the script, it could not be a reason for Feng Tao to refuse to act. Under the continuous condemnation of the Feng faction, the audience of theater fans who went to the theater to watch Feng Tao continued to decrease.

Just when Feng Tao was extremely depressed, a newspaper published an article signed "Mei Yu" entitled "Say a Few Words of Justice for Mr. Feng Tao". The article said that Feng Tao was by no means only keen on the peach blossoms in the peach blossom garden, on the contrary, he had a strong sense of worrying about the country and the people. The article lists Feng Tao's initiative to participate in the field ambulance team during the August 13 Anti-Japanese War and bravely rescue the wounded from the line of fire. After becoming an actor, he took out his acting income, actively donated money for the relief of refugees, donated money for the purchase of airplanes for the **** Air Force, refused to be co-opted by traitor leaders, went to the front line to comfort the soldiers of the Anti-Japanese War, and so on. To confuse Mr. Feng's performance on stage with his words and deeds in life is actually a change of concept, just like saying that the actor who plays the bad guy must be the bad guy in life.

The article also said that when the movie "Defending Changsha" was filmed, the director did not want to use Feng Tao at first, but a **** lieutenant general who participated in the Battle of Changsha took the initiative to recommend Feng Tao. The director said that Feng Tao used to play amorous boys, but now he is asked to play a **** officer, I'm afraid it's not appropriate. However, the lieutenant general said that when Feng Tao was participating in a consolation performance on the front line in Changsha, suddenly a devil plane came to attack him, and Feng Tao did not run into the air-raid shelter first, but took the initiative to help guide others into the air-raid shelter, showing the courage to be fearless in the face of danger. The lieutenant general said that Feng Tao is a literati and a martial artist, and he will definitely be able to play a good officer.

The article also said that there is a plot in the play where when the devils attacked our army's position, some soldiers fled in panic. Feng Tao stopped them. The original content of the script was that the protagonist shouted, "Brothers, no one is allowed to retreat, it is a capital crime to escape from the battle, and whoever retreats will be shot!" Feng Tao discussed with the director and changed the protagonist's lines to, "Brothers, we can't retreat." Every time we take a step back, our territory will be reduced by an inch, and there will be one more compatriot suffering in the occupied areas and one less compatriot in the great rear. If we retreat like this, the whole country will perish! Brethren, for the sake of our country, for the sake of our fellow citizens, we cannot retreat! Only by holding the ground can everyone have a way to live. Even if you die in battle, you can't take a step back! Feng Tao's change, coupled with his passionate performance, caused a very strong response from the audience after the performance, and many officers and soldiers couldn't help but shed tears when they saw this paragraph.

The article also said that in June this year, Feng Tao starred in the drama "The Merry Story of the Fallen Son", which coincided with the frequent bombing of ZQ by devil planes, and the performance was carried out in a large air-raid shelter at that time. A series of explosions outside reached the bomb shelter, and the audience became nervous. At this time, Feng Tao immediately improvised on the stage, "Miss, Mei Xiang, don't be afraid, the noise outside is caused by a group of demons and monsters making trouble. They came from the Japanese slave country on the coast of the East China Sea, and they have always been tyrannical and evil. Although these demons and monsters can be rampant for a while, they will eventually bring about their own destruction, and evil will be rewarded. Feng Tao improvised so much, and immediately won warm applause from the audience. In the future, when there was no bombing by the devil plane, the backstage staff deliberately made a sound, and then Feng Tao performed this line.

At the end of the article, I said that as a veteran of the Anti-Japanese War and also as an ordinary audience, I would like to say a fair word for Mr. Feng, Mr. Feng is an actor, as long as the content of the performance is not prohibited by the government and the law, everyone should not seek full blame, and should treat Mr. Feng's performance inclusively. If Mr. Feng played a drama that bearoded the aggression of devils, the government would not tolerate it, but Mr. Feng did not do so. After all, Mr. Feng still has to rely on acting to eat, if he doesn't watch Mr. Feng's performance, won't Mr. Feng starve to death?

After the publication of this article, the derogatory Feng faction was stuck for a while, and the audience watching Feng Tao's performance gradually increased. Feng Tao was very grateful for this, so he wrote a letter to the newspaper, thanking the newspaper for publishing an article supporting him, because he did not know Mr. Mei Yu's contact information, he could not thank Mr. Mei in person, and hoped that the newspaper would convey his sincere greetings to Mr. Mei Yu on his behalf.

A few days later, Mei Yu wrote back, saying that Mr. Feng was too polite, and if Mr. Feng was free, could he go to the delicious restaurant to talk. Feng Tao then replied to the address on Mei Yu's letter and agreed to meet at a time.