——Remembering the poet Gao Gao during the fall of Northeast China
杲杳 is the pen name of a poet during the fall of Northeast China, these two strange words are pronounced gao yao, meaning: the sun is above the wood for the gao, the light is also; the sun is under the wood for the kae, the dark is also. It is obviously meaningful to contact the poet who lived in the Japanese and pseudo-period of "thorny earth", and to take such a pen name.
Gao Yiping, Gao Ye Deng, Gao Zaitian, pen names such as Guo Fen, Sprinkling, Sahua, etc., was born in 1917 in An ordinary peasant family in Gaoli Tomb Village, Xifeng, Liaoning. After losing his father before the age of one, the family fell into poverty, and he did not go to school until the age of 14 in 1931. After being persuaded by his clan and relatives and friends, his grandfather allowed him to enter primary school. Fortunately, he studied angrily, his grades were excellent, the county government took the first place in the examination, and teachers and friends were happy to sponsor him, and directed the graduation of Siping Normal High School. During this period, he loved to read the biographies of national heroes, patriots, and progressive literature, and began to love literature, studying poetry with Fei Chen, Li Yan, Li Mei and others. From 1935 onwards, he began to publish poems and essays in newspapers and periodicals such as Mingming, Manchurian New Culture Monthly, Xingman Culture Monthly, Fushun Daily, Dabei New Daily, Taidong Daily, And Art Weekly, etc. In 1939, while studying at Changchun Normal School, his collection of poems "Mouth Flute" was published by Yizhi Bookstore and attracted the attention of the literary circles. In 1940, he went to Fushun
This collection of poems is now sold for as much as 10,000 yuan on Confucius's old book network
As a middle school teacher, he co-edited the literary and art supplement of Fushun Daily with Zhan Jingguo. During this period, they contacted Huang Fumian and others to secretly engage in anti-Japanese and anti-Manchu activities. same
In the summer of that year, he organized a "left-wing reading club" with some patriotic students in Changchun, and later went to Fushun to carry out anti-Manchu anti-Japanese propaganda activities under the cover of primary school teachers. On December 30, 1941, the "Left Wing Reading Club" was broken, and he was arrested and imprisoned in the pseudo-Changchun Prison. In prison, he carved a poem "Power" on the wall: "High and low waters, dense aerodynamic winds." The strength of the group can win the sky, and the dream of a single husband cannot be achieved! "Expressed the will not to yield. In 1943, the Japanese and puppet authorities issued a verdict and sentenced him to ten years in prison.
After Japan's surrender in 1945, kaoru was released. In 1946, he and Chen Shuman co-founded the magazine "Northeast Today" in Changchun, and successively served as a reporter for six or seven newspapers and news agencies, and published works in Changchun's "China Daily", "Xiangchao Daily", "Xinsheng Bao", "Industry and Commerce Daily" and so on. His life was threatened by his frequent publications exposing the corruption of Kuomintang officials.
After the founding of New China, Gao Yiping changed his name to Gao Yeping and engaged in educational work in Changchun City, successively teaching at Changchun No. 12 Middle School and No. 39 Middle School. In the 1957 struggle against the Right, he was classified as a Rightist. After the "Cultural Revolution" began in 1966, his spirit was once again severely hit, his flesh was also destroyed, and he was sent to the Changbai Mountains for labor reform. After a decade of unrest, the policy was implemented and he was rehabilitated in 1979. After retiring, he taught at the Workers' University.
I met Gao Ji around the beginning of 1984, when I was an editor and reporter in the Supplement of Changchun Daily. It seems that Mr. Shanding introduced him, saying that he lived in Changchun and was a well-known progressive poet in the late 1930s and early 1940s. I visited his house and remembered that although he was thin, he was in a good state of mind, and it was hard to imagine that he had sat in a prison of enemy and forgery and suffered from successive political movements. Due to the very tight work of the newspaper, my research on writers in the northeast can only be seen in the needle, and the original plan to write the article has not been written for a long time. At the beginning of 1985, our newspaper founded changchun junzilan newspaper, and due to the lack of manpower to run the supplement, I was transferred to serve as an editor in May. One day, He came to the newspaper office with a cane and brought a poem "The Gentleman in Zanlan". The poet's sword is not old, the poems are very meaningful, and I quickly compiled and distributed them. During the conversation, I learned that in July 1984 he suddenly suffered from cerebral thrombosis, resulting in a half-body failure.
A few months later, due to the oppression of the external environment, Changchun Junzilan Daily was suspended, and I returned to the daily newspaper to edit the supplement. A friend of the Shenyang Daily supplement told me that Zhang Lie, an old cadre and old writer who now lives in Fushun, has lived and worked in Changchun, and he can be contacted.
In his first reply to me, Zhang Lie mentioned Gao Gao: "Comrade Gao Desheng was sentenced to twelve years in prison by the Japanese Kou, and after the surrender of Japan, Fang came out of Jilin Prison, and today he is retired in Changchun. "It turns out they know each other too. At the beginning of 1986, I wrote to Zhang Lie again because of the manuscript matter, and the letter was returned, so I asked Gao Gao to forward it. Despite his poor health at the time, he was still eager to lend a helping hand. With his help, I resumed contact with Zhang Lie.
On January 21, 1987, he died of esophageal cancer in Changchun at the age of 70. I heard the news indirectly, and I was very sad at the time, and I wanted to find out his work and read it. However, his famous work "Mouth Flute" has long been out of print, and only the old novel "Standing Point Product" republished in the fourth series of the "Northeast Literature Research Historical Materials" can be found. In this novel, published in 1941, the author uses bold and realistic brushwork to bluntly disclose the plight of the people of Northeast China under japanese and pseudo-rule: the wish to buy noodles and roll noodles on a birthday cannot be realized, and can only eat pancakes; through dialogue between teachers, it is said that Chinese is not allowed to eat rice, otherwise he will go to prison; he also writes that the protagonist's wife is checked every day on the way home... How can all this be hidden from the eyes of the Japanese book and newspaper procurators and the traitors and literati they employ? However, as a poet with a conscience, Gao Ji did not fear, but used his pen to fight against the invading enemy and bravely pursue the light in the dark night! This should be remembered by history.