The development of social reality and the author's deepening life experience have prompted his artistic creation to change in thought and art. At the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, he was inspired by his patriotic enthusiasm, and wrote Phoenix, Boy Scouts and Song of Harmony, which was the first stage. At this time, no matter from reality or history, he focused on the current national struggle to resist foreign enemies and defend the motherland. The four-act drama Phoenix is based on the story of Miao Kexiu, a martyr of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army. In the play, Miao Kexiu's "China Young Iron Blood Army" was praised for its arduous and tenacious struggle with Japanese invaders in Baishan and Heishui, and some scenes were fascinating and vivid. However, when he first tried the pen of drama, he was not proficient in plot structure, characterization and even language refining. In some places, he applied the old drama techniques learned from theater stiffly. At this time, the audience at the head of the national disaster first demanded a distinct anti-Japanese theme and patriotic passion, so the play aroused strong repercussions. The one-act drama Scout (1939) continues the theme of Phoenix and tells the story that primary school students in enemy-occupied areas become anti-Japanese scouts. 1934 published the novel "Gong E Complain", which is his first novel. After the July 7th Incident, he went to Hunan and Sichuan with the drama school to teach Chinese and Chinese drama history. 1936 graduated from the liberal arts department of China-France University. From 65438 to 0937, Wu Zuguang served as the secretary of the president's office of Nanjing National Theatre Academy. In the same year, he created the anti-Japanese drama Phoenix, which became a powerful weapon for the national theater to fight against Japanese invaders. Later, he wrote Song Zhengqi, Return on a Snowy Night, Lin Chong Running at Night, Cowherd and Weaver Girl, Journey of Youth and other plays, which were included in Selected Plays of Wu Zuguang. 1945, the supplement of Xinmin Evening News, edited by him, first published Mao Zedong's poem "Qinyuanchun Snow". 1946 founded the supplement of Xinmin Evening News, Night Cup and Qingming Magazine in Shanghai, and also created Ghost Hunting and a new drama, the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon, denouncing the reactionary rule of the Kuomintang, and then fled to Hong Kong after being persecuted by the Kuomintang reactionaries. From 65438 to 0947, he directed and directed films such as Soul of China, Don't Ignore Youth, Tears of Mountains and Rivers, Spring Breeze and Autumn Rain, Return on a Snowy Night, etc. After the founding of New China, Wu Zuguang created the film "Red Flag Song" and the children's drama "Apart from the Four Seas" which reflected the spinning women workers. After 1954, Wu Zuguang directed films such as Mei Lanfang's Stage Art, Luoshen, and Tears in the Barren Mountains, which left extremely precious materials for Mei Lanfang and Cheng, two Peking Opera masters. 1963 cooperated with his wife Xin to adapt the Pingju "Flower as Media", which became a successful masterpiece on the Pingju stage. In addition, he also created a large number of works, such as Wu Zetian, Three Taos and Three Springs, The Wandering Son, The New Legend, The Three Customs Banquet and so on.
1937- 1948 Wu Zuguang was a lecturer at Nanjing National Theatre Academy, director of Chongqing Central Youth Theatre Society and China Theatre Art Society, editor of Xinmin Evening News Supplement, editor of Qingming Magazine, director of Hong Kong Greater China Film Company and director of Hong Kong Yonghua Film Company. After 1949, Wu Zuguang successively served as director of the Central Film Bureau and Beijing Film Studio, head of Mudanjiang Art Troupe, screenwriter of China Opera Academy, China Opera Research Institute and Beijing Peking Opera Theatre, professional creator of the Art Bureau of the Ministry of Culture, member of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, executive director and vice chairman of China Dramatists Association, and honorary chairman of Friendship Publishing Company. 1957 was wrongly classified as the Rightists, and the labor in Beidahuang (Heilongjiang Reclamation Area) was decentralized.
1960 returned to Beijing, and worked as a screenwriter in the Experimental Peking Opera Troupe and Beijing Peking Opera Troupe successively, creating plays such as Wu Zetian, Feng Qiu Huang, Three Taos and Three Springs. 65438-0979 The Art Bureau of the Ministry of Culture is engaged in professional creation. After the downfall of the Gang of Four, he wrote the Peking Opera "Matchmaker" and the drama "Wandering the Jianghu", both of which were very popular. He is a member of the Fifth to Eighth China People's Political Consultative Conference. After the founding of New China, Wu Zuguang published the drama collection Snow Collection and the prose collection Flower of Art, and also directed many art films, among which Mei Lanfang's Stage Art, Luoshen and Tears in the Barren Mountains left precious materials for Peking Opera masters Mei Lanfang and Cheng. From 65438 to 0960, he returned to Beijing Experimental Peking Opera Troupe and China Opera Research Institute as screenwriters, and created Peking Opera scripts such as Three Taos and Three Springs and Three Popular Banquets. The screenplay adapted from Pingju "Taking Flowers as Media" can be regarded as a model of opera innovation. After the "Cultural Revolution", Wu Zuguang wrote the drama "The Wandering Son" based on his wife's new life experience. On April 9, 2003, he died of coronary heart disease in Beijing at the age of 86.