This issue of celebrity biography introduces a literary writer who has been known as "Mr. Ban Da" since childhood, and claims to have "stupid" and "strange qi" - Qin Zhaoyang. People who know Qin Zhaoyang's life experience often say that reading his books is the best memorial to past writers. Because Qin Zhaoyang left home at a young age, many friends in his hometown echoed his lifelong love of Sangzi, and many of the anthologies he launched were draped in his true soul.
Qin Zhaoyang was young
Qin Zhaoyang was born in 1916 in Baiyangshan, Huilongshan Town, Tuanfeng County, and is a native of The Jujube Tree Shop of The Lin Family in Huilongshan Town. When he was young, his family was poor, and his grandfather and father supported their families by teaching private schools. He studied with his father at the age of 5 and loved to paint. At the age of 12, he went to Hankou to study, and in 1934, he was admitted to the Wuchang Rural Normal School in Hubei Province, and after graduation, he taught at Huangzhou Central Primary School and began his literary creation.
In 1938, the young Qin Zhaoyang bid farewell to his hometown with full of enthusiasm and ran to Yan'an, the holy land of revolution. In 1942, Qin Zhaoyang took the initiative to go to the most brutal and dangerous guerrilla zone in Central Hebei in the War of Resistance Against Japan to engage in mass work and propaganda work. In the following years, he held a number of posts in the Jizhong Military Region, publishing many publications and short stories such as "Songs and Dramas" and "We Chairman Mao Has a Way.", most of the works published during this period reflected the struggle and life of the people behind enemy lines and the new appearance of the countryside after liberation.
Qin Zhaoyang
When it comes to Qin Zhaoyang's literary career, people cannot forget the famous works of a large number of pillar-like writers in the 1950s, and these were all published in the "People's Literature" that he presided over at the time. In 1956, Qin Zhaoyang published the famous paper "Realism ——— Broad Road", which questioned and reflected on the increasingly serious dogmatic tendencies embodied in the literary and art policy since the 1950s, which had a major impact on the literary and art circles. He believes that under the premise of adhering to the general principle of realism of pursuing the truth of life and the truth of art, there is no need to divide the era of various "realisms". Qin Zhaoyang was thus criticized for suffering injustice.
Until 1979, when Qin Zhaoyang was rehabilitated and returned to Beijing, he served as deputy editor-in-chief of the People's Literature Publishing House and editor-in-chief of the magazine "Contemporary"; he stressed the need to adhere to the literary proposition of realism and highlight the nature of the times, reality, and the masses; stressed that the published reading materials should reflect positive, healthy, and vigorous; and stressed the need to support and encourage literary people and contribute to the prosperity of socialism. It is these persistences that have led to a higher creative enthusiasm, and new works are constantly being published.
Qin Zhaoyang wrote a lot in his lifetime, and his representative works include "Daughter's Letter", "White Sails", "Looking Back on the Year", "In the Field, Moving Forward!" A large number of novellas and short story collections such as "The Earth", as well as "On Conceptualization and Formulaization" and "Literary Exploration Collection" and other collections of essays, poetry and prose creation are also quite successful. From 1980 to 1994, nearly 15 years of realist literature were devoted to the work he published that influenced speakers, critics, essayists, poets, painters, seal engravers, and even revolutionaries throughout the 1980s.
Qin Zhaoyang's representative work "Daughter's Letter"
Qin Zhaoyang's representative work "Advancing on the Field"
Looking back on Qin Zhaoyang's life, in his long-term editing and literary work, selfless dedication, good at discovering and helping new people, rigorous work style and keen political vision, prompting him to continuously introduce excellent literary works. In the revolutionary era, Qin Zhaoyang always took the interests of the country and the nation as the first priority, focused on his cause, faded fame and fortune, and made a sacrifice of obligation for the rebirth and revitalization of realism. His revolutionary spirit and work style are always worth learning from us, and his righteousness, courage, and ambition are also examples that we will always emulate.
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