抗日战争时期，日本特务机关找北平梨园公益会，要该会出面组织京剧界捐献飞机的义演。著名表演艺术家程砚秋当即拒绝，说：“我不能给日本人唱义务戏，叫他们买飞机去炸中国人。”公益会的人很害怕，他们用关心的口气劝道：“名先生如果坚决不答应，同行受影响是小事，恐怕于 During the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Japanese secret service looked for the Peking Pear Orchard Association and asked the council to organize a charity to donate aircraft for the Beijing opera industry. Renowned performer, Cheng Yanqiu, immediately rejected saying “I can not sing Japanese opera and ask them to buy a plane to fry the Chinese people.” The people in the non-profit society are scared and they use the modest tone of advice to persuade them: "If Mr. Ming resolutely does not Promised, peer affected is trivial, I am afraid