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From the bank of depression
Literary giant Ren Guangchun
Author Yuan Zaiping
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Dangyang River Dissolve, ancient called "Wufuyi"; in the Ming Dynasty, in the travelogues of Yuan Zhongdao, it was also called "Herong". The Depression River and the Zhanghe River run south and southeast from the ancient Dajing Mountain, and after flowing here, they form a force called the Depression Zhanghe River. Obviously, the name "river dissolution" originates from the fact that the two waters of Depression and Zhangshui are dissolved here.
The two rivers of Depression have been navigable since ancient times. Located at the confluence of the two rivers, Herong Ancient Town has naturally become a water and land transportation hub on the Frustrated Zhangjiang Plain, a port where merchants gather and trade flourishes. According to legend, the famous Yuan'an Yasi and Luyuan tea in ancient times were transported from here to Wuhan, Nanjing, Shanghai, and then trafficked to Southeast Asia. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Wang Yue, a frustrated scholar who lived in Liu Biao's place in Jingzhou, climbed the tower here to make the famous "Denglou Fu". The building he climbed was the City of Handangyang, which was located on the depression delta near herong. The magnificent scene of the two waters and the continent depicted by this fu is also the wonder of the river dissolving area.
I don't know what kind of charm Furukawa has, but the great astronomer of the Tang Dynasty and his party of monks took a fancy to it. After practicing at Yuquan Temple for several years, the party suddenly came to the town of Herong, where he built a three-star temple and three wells, which were rumored to be used by a group of monks to observe and study astronomical phenomena. When he was three years old (1931), the protagonist of this article, Ren Guangchun, also personally visited the ancient temple of Sanxing Temple; according to his recollection, the temple was "on the east side of the river, seven or eight miles away", and "there were three ancient wells in the temple, which were rumored to have been dug by a line". To this day, the remains of sanxing temple and three wells still exist in Herong Town.
Obviously, Herong Town has a long history and rich historical and cultural heritage. Have there been any great people or famous people here in history? This is not known. However, in the contemporary era, there is a well-known Chinese contemporary writer, calligraphy and painting artist, and cultural scholar Ren Guangchun, who was born and raised to enjoy the special allowance of experts of the State Council.
In 1928, on the tenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, Ren Guangchun was born in the northern suburbs of Herong Town, the old house of Renjia Trough Fang, whose ancestors worked as farmers. His father, Ren Sun Da, was engaged in business and had the business name "Ren Kechang". His mother, Yang Yongxiu, was born in extreme poverty and was the adopted daughter-in-law of the Yang clan; she had 16 children and lived 3 people- namely, her sisters Ren Guangyun, Ren Guangchun and her sister Ren Guangyu.
Ren Guangchun entered Herong Primary School at the age of 6; at the age of 8, because of his intelligence and excellent grades, he jumped from the second grade of primary school to the fifth grade of high school to continue his studies, when the principal of the school, Xu Zijing. In this year, the "Seven-Seven" Lugou Bridge Incident broke out, and Ren Guangchun and his classmates formed a small detachment to publicize the anti-Japanese resistance in Herong Town and rural areas, and collected scrap iron from house to house to donate to the state to support the War of Resistance. In 1938, due to the Japanese Kou forcing to the west of Hubei, Herong Primary School was closed. Ren Guangchun studied Chinese painting from Xu Zi and read the Ancient Literature Guan Zhi from Xu Ziren at Xu Jiadu Private School. The following year, in the Wang family, he learned ancient and new literature from Xu Jieren.
In the summer of 1940, Japanese aircraft bombed Herong, dropping 47 bombs, destroying dozens of houses and killing several people. Ren Guangchun's family took a boat up the Zhanghe River and fled to Huaixi, where they lived in Shangjiayan Mountain Village. In the second half of the same year, Dangyang and Herong completely fell. After the situation stabilized slightly, he moved back to the old house of The River Rong Renjia Trough Fang. The following year, Ren Guangchun continued to attend elementary school at Chaoyangshan School (the ruins of Gumai City) near The town of Herong until graduation. Shi studied literature from Xu Jieren and history from Zhao Chunshan.
In 1942, he entered Jiangling Middle School in Shashi City, and the following year he entered Dangyang County Junior High School (located in Hengdian, qianhang, Dangyang Temple) for two years until graduation. At that time, he actively participated in the school rehearsal of "Table", "Put Down Your Whip" and other literary and artistic performances to publicize the anti-Japanese resistance.
In August 1945, the Japanese surrendered. Ren Guangchun was admitted to Hubei Provincial Hanyang High School and graduated. In 1949, he graduated from the Chinese Department of Wuchang Zhonghua University (later merged with Wuhan University), and joined the revolutionary work in August of the same year. In 1951, he graduated from the Fine Arts Department of the School of Literature and Art of Zhongyuan University in Wuhan, and Shi Cui Wei was the dean of the School of Literature and Art of the University, and the literary and artistic celebrities Yu Lin, Lini, and Nie Shuyun were the vice presidents of the college. Soon, Ren Guangchun was sent to the wuchang paper mill countryside to participate in the work of qing bandits and anti-hegemony and the autumn conquest and support, and later he was successively sent to Wuchang Niangzi Lake, Honghu Lake in Jingzhou Laosu District, and other places to participate in land reform work, and served as deputy leader and leader of the land reform task force.
In 1951, during the work of the Honghu Land Reform, he cooperated with Lu Muxun and Liu Mingxuan to paint the New Year painting "Rural December", which was officially published and distributed at the age of 22. The following year, he painted the New Year painting "Harvest", which was published on the back cover of the magazine "Farmers in Central South". In 1953, he was transferred to the Yangtze River Daily as an art editor, and at that time, the newspaper published his improvised new poem "Welcome to You, Brother from Stalin", which had a sensational effect. In the second half of the year, he was transferred to the Propaganda Department of the Central and Southern Bureau, and he was a colleague with Guo Xiaochuan, an elder in literature and deputy director of the theory department of the ministry. In the autumn of the following year, the Central and Southern Bureau was abolished, and Ren Guangchun was transferred to the Literature and Art Department of the Propaganda Department of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee. When he bid farewell to Wuhan and rushed to Changsha, Hunan, Ren Guangchun was already a young literary and art writer with strong strength who had emerged in the literary garden and the art garden.
Changsha, Hunan, is the second hometown of Ren Guangchun. He lived a very difficult, extremely difficult and painful life here; at the same time, he gained a brilliant life in literature, calligraphy and painting, and scholarship.
In 1955, he published the poem "The Birth of a Sluice Gate" in hunan daily. In 1958, he marched into the study of literary and art theory and its writing, and successively published literary and art criticism articles such as "On Socialist Literature and Art", "On New Poetry", "Carrying Forward the Custom Painting, Figure Painting, and Xiao Elephant Painting Tradition of Chinese Painting" in newspapers and periodicals such as Hunan Literature and Hunan Daily; and continued to publish rural sketches, Chinese paintings and other fine art works.
In March 1959, he published a long poem "Lan Xiang and the Little Tiger" in Hunan Literature, which caused a sensation among readers across the country. According to the editors of Hunan Literature, after the publication of the long poem "Lan Xiang and the Little Tiger", "the north reaches Heilongjiang and the south reaches Hainan Island", and "the editorial department receives five or six letters from readers every day" to comment and praise this work. In May, Hunan Literature published the "Minutes of the Symposium on Long Poems", which highly praised the long poems. However, in July of the same year, the storm suddenly changed: in the same "Hunan Literature", he began to publish articles criticizing "Lan Xiang and the Little Tiger". Immediately afterward, the superiors took organizational measures to implement wheel tactics against Ren Guangchun and to carry out criticism and fighting day and night for half a year. In the end, he was dismissed from the party, sent to the mine, dug coal in the well, and built railways and coal silos at the mine site. Due to overwork, he was seriously ill and risked his life.
In 1962, Ren Guangchun was rehabilitated and reinstated as a party member. In the following year, he attended the Third Literary Congress of Hunan Province, and was elected as a member of the Provincial Federation of Literature and Literature and a director of the Provincial Writers Association, and succeeded him as the leader of the novel and prose editing group of Hunan Literature. Therefore, he devoted himself wholeheartedly to the work of cultivating and supporting amateur literary authors; such as Gu Hua's debut work "Apricot Sister" and Hu Ying's debut work "Mountain People", all of which were discovered and revised by him and published in "Hunan Literature"; this played a huge role in supporting and encouraging the two amateur authors. From then until his death for more than a few decades, Ren Guangchun served as the director of the editorial department of the large-scale literary series "Furong", the editor-in-chief of Hunan Literature, Literature Monthly, Chu Feng, Xiaoxiliu and other publications, and the member of the party group of the Hunan Provincial Federation of Literature and Literature, the executive chairman and vice chairman, honorary chairman and editor of the Writers Association. He has made outstanding contributions to the cause of Literature and Art in Hunan.
In terms of personal creation, Ren Guangchun is a famous historical novelist, essayist, poet, calligrapher and painter, and cultural scholar. In 1959, after his long poem "Lan Xiang and the Little Tiger" brought him great disasters, he did not flinch; instead, he focused on the creation of historical novels and decided to use the extremely expressive literary form of the novel to reflect the "Penghu Reform Law", "Xinhai Revolution", "May Fourth Movement", a series of light and darkness, revolution and reaction, forward and backward, iron and blood, and other cruel struggle histories that were related to China's future and destiny. In the creation of long historical novels, he set himself an iron discipline and principle: that is, we must respect history, and we must seek truth from major historical figures and major, important and important historical facts and events, and never allow ourselves to be fictional.
In 1979, his first long historical novel "The Blood Of Wu Shu" was completed, and the Yangcheng Evening News was serialized day by day for more than 40 days. In 1980, the large literary series "Contemporary" selected the first chapter of "The Blood of Wu Shu"; in August of the same year, the book was published by the Hunan People's Publishing House; the Central People's Radio and many local radio stations broadcast the long story of the history. The historical masterpiece of "The Blood of Wu Shu" has a total circulation of more than 320,000 copies. In the following years, two of his other historical masterpieces, "Records of the Wind and Clouds of Xinhai" and "May Fourth Hongbo Song", came out one after another. Thus constructing his historical trilogy of "Times Trilogy" that has produced great shock in the literary world in the new period. Among them, "The Record of Xinhai" published by Hunan People's Publishing House in 1983 won the Sun Yat-sen Foundation Literary and Art Award. To this end, the Chinese Writers Association held the "Ren Guangchun Historical Novel Creation Seminar" in Beijing in 1994; the famous writers and critics attending the meeting conducted an in-depth discussion on his historical novel creation and gave high praise to his literary achievements. Domestic critics, especially major newspapers and periodicals in Hong Kong, have published many comments and interviews on this.
From 1995 to 1996, he published his "Trilogy of Characters" in Beijing Culture and Art Publishing House and Beijing Unity Publishing House, namely "Tan Sitong", "Huang Xing", "General Xing- The Biography of Cai Yi" and a long historical documentary literature "Fire City" (writing "Changsha Defense War"). Thus, this "Character Trilogy" and "Fire City" together with a total of 7 historical masterpieces of his "Times Trilogy" have "formed a series of literary classics that attach equal importance to the literary value and historical value of his long historical theme creation" (Luo Chengyan, secretary of the party group and writer of the Hunan Provincial Federation of Literary and Literary Associations, wrote a "eulogy" for Ren Guangchun).
He published the essay collection "The Love of Life", the poetry collection "Rose Collection", the translation poem "Lost Bird Collection"; published the short series of historical novels "The Secret History of the Furong Kingdom" created in ancient Chinese; and many short stories, poems, essays, essays, academic papers, translation works, etc., which were scattered in newspapers and magazines throughout the country and overseas. His literary works and articles have accumulated more than 10 million words. The poetry collection "Rose Collection" won the 2001 Outstanding Poetry Collection Award of the Poetry Magazine. The poem "Dreaming of a Mother" was included in the Chinese and American poetry anthology "Butterflies in the Wind" published by the American publishing industry, and the essay "Lion, Eagle and Deer" was selected to be included in the "Selected Essays of Contemporary China" published by the Hong Kong publishing industry.
Ren Guangchun's achievements in the field of calligraphy and painting are also impressive. In 1992, he held a solo exhibition in Changsha with more than 100 masterpieces of Chinese paintings, and then exhibited them at major art events in the United States, Bangkok, Hong Kong and other places. The Chinese paintings "Zhou Zi Ai Lian Tu" and "Awakening Lion Tu" won the international honorary gold medal and special gold medal of the 2nd and 3rd Chinese Art Congress; the domestic "Literature Newspaper", "Literature and Art Daily", the American "World Weekly", "San Francisco Times", and "Overseas Chinese Daily" have published commentaries on this and given high praise. A number of Chinese painting works have been selected and included in the painting collection "The Painter's Dream" published by Renmin University Press, the "Contemporary Chinese Writers' Books and Pictures" published by the Straits Publishing House, and the "BaimeiTu" painting collection published by Shandong Fine Arts Publishing House, and the title of "Celebrity of Contemporary Calligraphy and Painting Art" was jointly awarded by the five art circles of China, Japan, South Korea, Canada and Belgium. In 1996, he was invited to attend the 23rd World Humanities Exchange Conference held in San Francisco, USA, with his wife, Xianghua Qiu, and was awarded the AB Gold Medal in the United States.
At 22:25 on August 31, 2005, Ren Guangchun passed away at the age of 77 due to heart failure and ineffective rescue. Jiang Jianguo, member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial CPC Committee and director of the Propaganda Department of the Provincial CPC Committee, Tan Tan, chairman of the Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Tang Haoming, chairman of the Provincial Writers Association, Liu Mingtai, secretary of the party leading group and director of the Press and Publication Bureau, and veteran writers Xie Pu and Wei Yang, and other heavyweights, all attended the memorial service ceremony to bid a final farewell to Ren Guangchun. Luo Chengyan, secretary of the party leading group of the Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles, delivered a eulogy; Xie Pu, a well-known prose writer, spoke at the meeting. Undoubtedly, the entire literary and artistic circles in Xiangxiang, the readers, the authors, and the fathers and fellow villagers on the banks of the Frustrated Zhanghe River who gave birth to him and raised him, are very saddened by the loss of an outstanding writer, calligrapher, painter, and cultural scholar in the Chinese literary circles, and they all place deep and deep remembrance.
September 2006 in Yichang
About the Author
Yuan Zaiping, born in 1944, is a native of Zixing, Hunan. He graduated from the Department of Chinese of Wuhan University, is the deputy research librarian of the Qunyi Museum in Yichang City, Hubei Province, and a member of the Hubei Writers Association and the Provincial Folk Writers Association. He has long been engaged in the editing of local journals and the research of literature and history, and has published more than 1 million words of literary works, literary and historical articles and academic papers in national, provincial and municipal newspapers and magazines. Yichang Cultural Chronicle (Hubei People's Publishing House), Associate Editor and Chief Writer, Chinese Folklore. General Compilation of Wujiagang Volume (China Federation of Literature and Literature Publishing House). Participated in the second session of the "Yichang City Chronicle" (Fangzhi Publishing House) writing. Co-authored with his wife Gong Xinghua, he published a 680,000-word literary and historical monograph "Three Gorges History of the Sea Hook Shenlu" (Changjiang Publishing House).