吴祖光为国人所知,缘于他的处女作《凤凰城》。该剧诞生于1937年“七七事变”之后。日寇血腥屠城南京不久,中国抗战的浪潮已经高涨,以抗战为内容,或以动员民众奋起抵御外侮为主题的歌曲、散文,甚至小说都有了一些,唯独戏剧形式的作品,只有一部街头独幕剧《放下你的鞭子》。 Wu Zu Guang known to the people, due to his debut “Phoenix City.” The drama was born in 1937 “seven seven incident ” after. Not long after the bloody massacre of the Japanese invaded Nanjing, the tide of the war of resistance in China has risen. Songs, essays and even novels with the theme of the war of resistance against Japan as the theme or mobilizing the masses to rise up against foreign aggression have come to light. Only the works in the form of drama, Street actress “Put down your whip.”