北京人民艺术剧院编剧、戏剧家、诗人陈钟瑄同志,因病于1990年4月11日正午在北京逝世,终年70岁。陈钟瑄同志1920年5月26日生于广西桂林。学生时代他目睹国民党政府对日本军国主义侵略的不抵抗主义的一再退让妥协,极为不满,义愤填膺,故17岁就参加了国防艺术社,积极演出《放下你的鞭子》等街头剧,创作长诗《战斗——中国》及 Comrade Chen Zhongtao, screenwriter, dramatist and poet of the Beijing People’s Art Theater, died in Beijing at noon on April 11, 1990, and died at the age of 70. Comrade Chen Zhongli was born on May 26, 1920 in Guilin, Guangxi. In his student days, he witnessed repeated concessions and compromises made by the Kuomintang government over the non-resistance of Japan’s militarist aggression. He was extremely dissatisfied and indignant. He joined the National Defense Art Agency at the age of 17 and performed such street plays and dramas as “lay your whip” “Fight - China” and