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In the storm of the big times, an enlightened new woman, standing at the crossroads of life, surging with blood, as if hesitating, did not know where to go.
In the year of the May Fourth Movement, Ding Ling and her friend Wang Jianhong were studying at the provincial women's normal school in Taoyuan, Hunan Province. They actively participated in the student movement, taking the lead in cutting braids and reading new works of literature. After arriving in Shanghai, she and Wang Jianhong entered the Literature Department of Shanghai University and met Qu Qiubai. Sixty years later, she wrote an article recalling Qu Qiubai, detailing this period of life. The novel "Wei Hu" is based on the love life of Qu Qiubai Wang Jianhong, and uses piping hot words to engrave Qu Wang's life and death love. After Wang Jianhong's death, Ding Ling came to Beijing to attend a cultural class at a cram school, and also went to Peking University to observe, planning to study in France. After knowing the dramatist Hong Shen, he dreamed of becoming a film actor; after knowing Tian Han of the Southern Drama Society, he wanted to become a theater actor. However, when I contact the circle of artists, I hate that kind of life. Ding Ling, who was young and full of infinite hope for the future, was now full of abundant emotions in her chest and had many words to pour out; so she picked up a pen and wrote her first short story, "Mengke". The novel was posted to Shanghai's "Novel Monthly", which happened to be edited by Ye Shengtao, and only changed a few typos to her debut work, and published it in a prominent position. Ye Shengtao discovered the creative potential of this literary newcomer and wrote a letter to ask her to send new works. Soon, Ding Ling sent out "Ms. Sha fei's diary". These two works, as the Qing Dynasty poet Zhao Yi said: "Ancient times have been passed down to the world, and thunder and lightning have been exploded." "The two early works, which shocked the literary world with their hands, are Ding Ling's famous works, which have laid the foundation for her position in the history of modern literature. When she was in college, she knew Qu Qiubai, the guide, and when she submitted articles, she met Ye Shengtao, a Bole, and Ding Ling had firm confidence in engaging in literary creation. Many years later, her "problem was solved", remembering Ye Shengtao, who had helped her to enter the literary world, visiting her door and saying to Ye Lao during the conversation: "If you don't publish my novel, maybe I won't take this road." Ye Lao felt nostalgic for the friendship, filled in a poem, and sighed at the relationship between him and Ding Ling's words.
In the history of modern literature, what female writer has ever received a poem from two great people of the same era? Only Ding Ling, not one of them. According to Ding Ling's personality, it is impossible to just pick up a pen and write novels that are not helpful. She joined the Left League, knew Lu Xun, edited the Left League organ publication "Beidou", and when it was founded, she went to Lu Xun's home to solicit opinions and find illustrations from Lu Xun. After Hu Yefeng's death, she was arrested by the Kuomintang again, and Lu Xun heard rumors that Ding Ling had been killed, so he wrote "Mourning Ding Jun": Such as the night air pressure heavy building, cutting willow spring wind to guide the nine autumns. Yaoser condensed the dust and complained, and the poor girlless Yao Gaoqiu. After being released from prison, Ding Ling sneaked into northern Shaanxi and officially embarked on the revolutionary road, from a new woman engaged in novel writing in a big city, who turned sharply and became a member of the national liberation army. Just arrived in northern Shaanxi, a welcome party was held on the Loess Plateau to welcome this famous writer from Shanghai. With the support of the Party, Ding Ling prepared for the Cultural Association and was elected director of the China Literary Association. Historically, the first Literary and Artistic Association led by the CPC was founded by Ding Ling. The world's talents are all in the middle, how happy Mao Zedong is! Ding Ling followed Peng Dehuai to the Sanyuan front, Mao Zedong filled in the words, sent a telegram to the front line, the word plate "Linjiang Xian": "The red flag on the wall drifts down / The west wind sweeps the lonely city / The security figure is new for a while / The banquet in the cave is held / Entertain the prisoners / A branch of the pen Who is with the like / Three thousand Mauser elite soldiers / The formation map opens to Longshandong / Yesterday Miss Wen / General Wu today." The poems written by Lu Xun and Mao Zedong for Ding Ling are two milestones in the life path of a female writer and a good story in the history of Chinese literature in the twentieth century.
After 1949, Ding Ling served as a leader in the literary circles, editing the "Literature and Art Daily" and "People's Literature", serving as the director of the Literary Research Institute, and the director of the Literature and Art Department of the Central Propaganda Department. At that time, the establishment of the Central Propaganda Department was at the level of the department and bureau. Whether in the association or in the party's leading organs, Ding Ling was in a very high position with her literary achievements and revolutionary qualifications. Her harvest from participating in land reform in Hebei was the creation of the novel "The Sun Shines on the Sangan River". Since coming to northern Shaanxi to participate in the revolution, she has gradually mastered the party's literary and artistic principles and policies, and is familiar with the language and culture of a political group, as well as the life of the countryside and peasants. An intellectual woman, a famous writer in a big city, has fundamentally changed her worldview and literary outlook after choosing a new path of life. "The Sun Shines on the Sangan River" won the Stalin Prize, which in the early fifties was measured by the heat of Sino-Soviet friendship. In the Institute of Literature, Ding Ling cares about the creation of young writers, enthusiastically supports the rookies in the literary world, and still has students at that time who miss their strengths. Unfortunately, a storm broke the Wenyuan tree; Ding Ling stopped the pen in her hand.
Looking back, I like Ding Ling's three early works: "Mengke", "Ms. Sha Fei's Diary", and "Wei Hu". These three works are the seasonal flowers of adolescence, natural, warm and beautiful, revealing people's inner world at the beginning, branding the confusion, love and pursuit of women in the new era with fire-like words, and feeling the hot flow of emotions on the pages as soon as they began to read. These three works, through artistic images, also write about the sincerity of people, and write about the attitude of people with knowledge and noble sentiments towards life. In the Wei Hu, there is a passage that reads: "He saw in himself two personalities and two personalities!" One is what he got from his parents, the father who had been sloppy all his life, and the mother who was enthusiastic, frivolous enough to commit suicide, that made their wise sons have doubts and emptiness about all life at an early age. So he got close to art, he spent his youth bored with wandering and extreme sentimentality, and if he could continue to dance and ink, he would be accomplished. But the new great waves swept him into a whirlpool, and it took him a long time to find his guide, and he had the pleasure of studying the works of Marx and Lenin and others. "This is the real Qu Qiubai. Compared with Qu Qiubai's "Superfluous Words", Ding Ling's novel is also history.
Of the two "Biographies of Ding Ling" that I have read, one of Zhou Liangpei's focuses on the restoration of Ding Ling's unjust case, out of a sense of justice, the subjective color is stronger; Wang Zeng, like Li Xiangdong's, is characterized by rich historical materials.
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