夏衍同志是一个多才多艺的当代文豪,他不仅在电影、戏剧、文学等方面有很高的造诣和成就,而且是一名杰出的记者,在我国进步报刊史上有着相当高的地位。 夏衍原名沈瑞先,祖籍浙江杭州,1900年生。抗日战争前,夏衍深入当时社会,细心观察并亲身体验下层人民的生活,写出名作《包身工》,堪称中国现代报告文学的开山之作。夏衍正式从事新闻工作是在1937年抗战以后,他接受了上海文化界救亡协会的委托,同郭沫若一起创办救亡日报。这张四开小报,随着抗日战线的南移,由上海到广州、桂林,辗转迁徙,历尽艰难,直到1941年初皖南事变后被迫停刊。救亡日报在中国共产党的领导下,在国统区吹响了宣传抗战、 Comrade Xia Yan is a versatile contemporary literary man. He not only has high attainments and achievements in films, drama, literature, but also is an outstanding journalist. He has a rather high status in the history of progressive newspapers in our country. Xia Yan formerly known as Shen Rui Xian, ancestral home in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, born in 1900. Prior to the Anti-Japanese War, Xia Yan deeply penetrated the society at the time, carefully observed and personally experienced the lives of the people in the lower classes and wrote a masterpiece called “Baosteel,” which is regarded as a pioneering work of modern Chinese reportage. Xia Yan formally engaged in journalism work after the War of Resistance Against Japan in 1937, he accepted the commission of the Shanghai Cultural Salvation Association, and Guo Moruo founded the Salvation Daily. This tabloid tabloid opened with a southward movement of the anti-Japanese front and moved from Shanghai to Guangzhou and Guilin. It went through hardships and was forced to stop publication after the Southern Anhui Incident in early 1941. Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the Daily Salvation Daily blew the propaganda of the war of resistance against Japanese aggression in the nationalist government area.