中国话剧的奠基人、开创中国话剧新纪元的曹禺先生不是保定人,也没在保定读过书,但与保定却有不解之缘。1931年“九一八”事变爆发,日寇的铁蹄践踏了中国的大好河山,大批东北学生离开故土流亡北平。那时,曹禺正在清华大学读书,满腔的爱国之情使他不能不走出教室。1931年10月12日,他随清华大学演讲团乘车来 Mr. Cao Yu, the founder of Chinese drama and the new era of Chinese drama, was neither a Baoding member nor a booker in Baoding, but he had a bond with Baoding. In 1931, the “September 18th” incident broke out and the Japanese invaders trampled the great rivers and mountains of China. A large number of students in the northeast left Peking in the exile. At that time, Cao Yu was studying at Tsinghua University, filled with patriotic feelings so that he could not get out of the classroom. October 12, 1931, he came with a speech group Tsinghua University