 Zhang Shichuan is considered one of the founding fathers of Chinese cinema.He directed about 150 films in his career, including "The Difficult Couple" (1913), the first Chinese feature film; "Laborer's Love" (1922), the earliest complete Chinese film that has survived; "Orphan Rescues Grandfather" (1923), one of the first Chinese box-office hits; "The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple" (1928), the earliest martial arts film which started an enormously popular genre; and "Sing-Song Girl Red Peony" (1931), China's first sound film.Under Zhang's leadership, Mingxing was the largest and most influential film studio in China.