Are So Zhi and Yang Zhenning born in modern or contemporary eras respectively?

They are all contemporary.

The famous drama performing artist Yu Zhi, originally from Tianjin, was born in Tangshan in 1927. His father died within a hundred days, and he moved to Beijing with his mother. He studied at Peking Kongde Primary School and graduated from the Beijing Normal University Affiliated Primary School. In junior high school, he studied at the High School Affiliated to Peking Normal University, but dropped out of school after graduation due to family poverty. At the age of 15, he worked as a warehouse helper and later as a scribe. In 1942, he participated in the amateur drama activities of the Peking Youth Organization. In the autumn of 1945, he was admitted to the Spanish Department of Peking University. Soon after he dropped out of school, he joined the Motherland Theater Troupe and participated in performances such as "Transformation" and "Leading by Example". In 1947, he entered the Peking Art Museum and participated in performances in dramas such as "Under the Roofs of Shanghai" and "Happy Reunion". In February 1949, he joined the North China People's Art Troupe (the predecessor of the Beijing People's Art Theater). In 1951, he created the artistic image of a madman in "Longxugou", establishing his status as an outstanding drama actor. Since then, he has performed dramas such as "Guan Hanqing", "Thunderstorm", "Death of a Famous Actor", "Teahouse", "Shopgirl", "Dragon Heart Score", "Invite You to the Urn", "Mahjong" and so on, all of which were successful. In addition, he also played Yu Yongze in the movie "Song of Youth" and Guifu in "Qiu Jin". He also collaborated with Cao Yu and Mei Qian to create the historical drama "The Brave Sword", and collaborated with Ying Ruocheng and Tong Chao to adapt The play "Live Like Him". In 1985, he was elected as the fourth vice-chairman of the Chinese Dramatists Association, and in 1988, he was elected as the second-term chairman of the Beijing Dramatists Association.

As a master of drama performances of the generation, the characters he played were so superb that they captivated a large number of "infatuated" people. Just mentioning "Tea House", everyone knows that there is a king in the play who has been an obedient citizen all his life. The shopkeeper will always say the most expressive sentence: Excellent performance! I have a friend who is an auctioneer, and I can be called my biggest admirer. He has watched "Teahouse" more than a dozen times, and his obsession is so intense that he took the 11:00 train at night to go on a business trip, and he planned it beforehand. When we had enough time, we first went to the Capital Theater to watch "Teahouse". After the "dizziness" was enough, we went straight to the train station after the show was over. In the play, this friend could not only blurt out the lines spoken by Shopkeeper Fanwang with a mastery and dexterity, but he could also imitate Mr. Wang's tone, cadence, and cadences perfectly. This is also a kind of love for the house and the bird.

So I admired two teachers the most in my life: Mr. Cao Yu and Mr. Jiao Juyin. He believed that these were two drama masters who had learned both Chinese and Western knowledge and had scholarly demeanor, so he first proposed the idea of ??"establishing a scholar-oriented theater". Reading, seeking knowledge, solving puzzles and thinking have become the most important things in his life. Every time I go to his house, I always see him sitting alone in his study. A small study room and books piled around formed his unique spiritual world.

After his retirement, he wrote a long paper "On Nationalization (Outline) Interpretation" and edited a collection of essays "On Beijing People's Art School of Drama", which not only made him immerse himself in books He studied hard and wrote hard, and condensed his incisive summary of the theory and practice of Beijing People's Art Stage Directing and Beijing People's Art Style. If Mr. Yu Zhi's later years are most appropriately described as "extremely brilliant, then return to mediocrity". His brilliant acting career was mixed with endless bitterness, loneliness and excitement that accompanied him throughout his long life. As a result, he could no longer stay in the library every day, read and practice calligraphy and write articles; it was even more difficult for him to go to the park for morning exercises or look at the setting sun and the afterglow of the sunset in the West Mountain... In the years, he had almost forgotten what he was familiar with. Yesterday, I couldn’t remember Shopkeeper Wang on the stage... A generation of drama masters has aged, and he seems to have aged badly... The prosperity and decline have passed, and the joys and sorrows have been forgotten. Everything is thrown into history. The splendor returns to dullness, and the tranquility reaches far.

Chen Ning Yang (Chen Ning Yang 1922~) is a Chinese-American and theoretical physicist. He was born on October 1, 1922 in Hefei County, Anhui Province (including Hefei City). In the Department of Physics of Southwest Associated University, he completed his bachelor's thesis under the guidance of Wu Dayou. After graduating in 1942, he entered the graduate school for further study and studied statistical physics under the guidance of Wang Zhuxi.

In 1945, he went to the United States and entered the University of Chicago as a graduate student. He was deeply influenced by E. Fermi. He completed his doctoral thesis under the guidance of his mentor E. Teller and received his doctorate in 1948. From 1948 to 1949, he served as a faculty member at the University of Chicago. From 1949 to 1955, he Worked at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he served as a professor from 1955 to 1966. In 1966, he served as the Einstein Chair Professor of Physics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and as director of the newly established Institute of Theoretical Physics of the school. President of the United States He was awarded the National Medal of Science and Technology in 1985. On December 27, 1984, Peking University awarded Yang Zhenning an honorary professor certificate.