Rou Shi was a young writer in the late 1920s, whose main work was a novelette called February, made into a film. On the night of February 7, 1931, he and four other writers - Hu Yepin, Feng Keng, Li Weisen and Yin Fu - were executed by the Kuomintang near the Longhua temple in the southwest of Shanghai as part of the effort to stamp out all communist and left-leaning influences. They became known as the Five Martyrs, just five of hundreds who were shot by the Kuomintang in those years.
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