Shijiazhuang Daily Rong media reporter Shi Yabin
Guo Xiaochuan, born in Fengning County, our province, in his revolutionary career for many years, he used the pen in his hand to express the abundant emotions in his chest, and his political lyric poems and long narrative poems inspired the young people of that era to bravely devote themselves to the tide of revolution and socialist construction.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="24" > lyrical resistance with warrior feelings</h1>
Born in 1919 to a family of intellectuals in Fengning County, Hebei Province, Guo Xiaochuan showed a strong interest in literature from an early age. In 1933, the Japanese invaded his hometown, and he fled with his family to Beiping. In Peiping, he began to join the student movement and joined the National Liberation Vanguard organized by the Underground Organization of the Communist Party of China. In the revolutionary tide of anti-Japanese salvation, Guo Xiaochuan grew up rapidly and began to write poems under pen names such as "Guo Su", "Jianfeng", "Xiangyun", and "Dengyun", and many works were published in the beiping rescue journals at that time.
After the outbreak of the "Lugou Bridge Incident", Guo Xiaochuan joined the Eighth Route Army on his way to Yan'an, and successively served as propaganda, education and confidential work in the 359th Brigade of the famous 120th Division, and also served as Wang Zhen's confidential secretary. In the course of fighting with the troops in Pingshan, Hebei, Mengxian and Yuci in Shanxi, Guo Xiaochuan wrote many poems and plays, such as "Rehe Song" and "We Sing the Yellow River".
At the beginning of 1941, he studied and worked for four and a half years in Yan'an Marxist-Leninist College and other units, mainly engaged in the research of Marxist-Leninist political theory and literary and art theory. In 1942, Guo Xiaochuan participated in the Yan'an Literary and Art Forum, after which he actively responded to Chairman Mao's great call, went deep among the masses, and transformed his own creations. It was not until October 1945 that Guo Xiaochuan returned to his hometown after many years of absence, served as the county magistrate of Fengning County, and led the county detachment's anti-bandit anti-hegemonic work. In December 1945, when the Battle of Pingjin began, Guo Xiaochuan entered the customs with the army and served as the editorial board member and director of the editorial department of Tianjin Daily. In May 1949, Guo Xiaochuan went south with the army and was appointed deputy chief of the Propaganda Department of the Central and Southern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and soon became the director of the Propaganda Department. In July 1951, he was transferred to the Central and Southern Literary and Art Front as a leader.
Guo Xiaochuan created a large number of poems in the early stage of the War of Resistance Against Japan, but most of them were scattered during a crossing of the Yellow River, and the only poems that have survived to this day are "Children on the Tuotuo River", "Crazy Woman", "Plugged grass", "I and the Gun", although immature, there are traces of experimentation and exploration, but they clearly express the theme of revenge and anti-aggression, as well as the poet's high melody and passionate fighting spirit of integrating into the group and moving towards struggle. It also initially shows his artistic talent for capturing moving scenes in the life of revolutionary struggle.
It can be said that Guo Xiaochuan's creative career is closely related to his revolutionary fighting career, and the baptism of war for many years has enabled him to observe and feel the war at close range, and these profound accumulations have become important materials for his future poetry creation. For more than a decade from 1943 onwards, the poet devoted all his energies to practical revolutionary work and hardly picked up a pen to write poetry. But the fiery enthusiasm that has accumulated in the chest has not diminished with the passage of time, and once the poet regains the pen to write poetry, it will spew out and converge into a rolling tide of poetry, sweeping the earth.
"Remember? We once had a great discovery:/ Living in a green yarn tent, sorghum straw is sweeter than sugar cane; / Remember? We once had a bold judgment: / Whether it is Shanghai or Beijing, it is not as nostalgic as this sorghum field. Remember? We once had an interesting dream: / After the victory of the revolution, we traveled all over Jiangnan with white beards; / Remember? We once had a small wish: / In the socialist era, we smoked three cigarettes a day. Written in 1962, "Sugar Cane Forest - Green Yarn Tent" fully demonstrates his warrior feelings, and without the personal feelings and practical experience of that year, it would be difficult to invent such moving pictures and verses.
The general let out a long breath, / walked around the shore. / Spin your head, / Look around: / Boulders, / Trees, / Fallen Leaves, / Flowing Fireflies, / Paths, / Breeze. / The general said: / 'You see, / Everything has life.' '//The general 'Ah' a sound, / Great feeling, / Look at the lower reaches of the river, / Unfold the solemn canvas: / Grain pile, / Nest, / Yard, / Tall tree, / Everyone, / Road. / The general said: / Have you thought about it? How rich life should be! "// The general was a little tired, / Bow sat by the river. / Look up, / Look high in the sky: / Bright moon, / Blue sky, / Stars, / Mountains, / Milky Way, / Clouds and smoke. / The general said: / "Think about how long the world is!" "The Long Narrative Poem "The General Trilogy", written in 1959, can be called the crowning work of long narrative poetry since the beginning of new Chinese poetry.
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In 1955, Guo Xiaochuan was transferred to the Chinese Writers Association and began to sing for New China and for socialist construction with a strong sense of responsibility and fire-like enthusiasm.
Guo Xiaochuan's first political lyric poem was "Throw in the Fiery Struggle" dedicated to the National Congress of Young Activists in Socialist Construction. With a majestic momentum not found in his past poems, the poem sings the strong voice of this era: "Citizens! / This is / Our great motherland. / Every second of it / Passing / Is extremely uncalm, / / Every piece of sand / of its land / Is throbbing, / It is calling you every moment / Throw yourself into a fiery struggle, / Struggle / This is / Life, / This is / The richest / Life. ”
In the following two years, Guo Xiaochuan successively wrote "Marching Toward Difficulties", "In the Climax of Socialism", "Shine, the Fire of Youth" and other group poems with the general theme of "To Young Citizens", and the poet said when recalling the creation of this period: "I can't help but write a line of political sentences with a posture of propaganda and drum mobilization, just like writing mobilization slogans on the walls of the countryside during the War of Resistance Against Japan... I am willing to dip this pen in the enthusiasm of the battle, to help our readers, first and foremost young readers, to grow the revolutionary will and bravely 'throw themselves into the fiery struggle'. ”
"Inherit it, our descendants!" / This is an eternal property - eternal and new; / Cultivate it, the master of the future world! / This is a magical land - it is difficult to find in heaven on earth. "This song "Carved in the Land of the Northern Wilderness" is now displayed in full in the Beidahuang Museum, expressing the pride of the builders of the Northern Wilderness in that year." And the machines rumbling on the construction site and the dusty fields, / My heart has not not been racing towards you for a day... / / I am going down -/ Leaves I can't let you carry the golden time and fall gently! / I'm going down -/ Autumn wind, don't torture me like this! /I'm going down—/Little River, I'm going to go with you to a noisy life! / I'm going down — / People need me to work like a battle! This "In the Mountains" expresses the author's eagerness to devote himself to construction and his vision for the future.
Feng Mu commented in "Guo Xiaochuan's Selected Poems and Preface to the Generation": "His poems and his songs make us see the footsteps of the times and make us hear the voice of the times. ...... Any revolutionary writer and poet, as long as he adheres to the direction of literature and art serving the workers, peasants, and soldiers and serving socialism, as long as he persists in going deep into the fiery life of struggle and the correct method of creation, his works will certainly reflect the spirit of the times to varying degrees, just as every drop of dew will reflect the brilliance of the sun. ”
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="19" > poems flash rich philosophical ideas</h1>
"In the space of the great universe, / Life is nothing but a meteoric flash. / In the river of infinite time, / Life is just a tiny and tiny wave. / Oh, starry sky, / I can't help but feel sad / So I carry a sad mood, / Go to the heart of Beijing..." This "Looking at the Starry Sky" is considered to be a masterpiece of Guo Xiaochuan's political lyric poetry, which is also integrated into the author's profound philosophy and exploration. The author strives to discover the spiritual beauty of the people and revolutionary fighters, to extract from the people's lives that kind of "extraordinary, brilliant crystal", and to express it through ingenious and strange ideas, so that the reader can not only cause short-term excitement, but also long-term deep thinking.
In the large number of poems created after the founding of New China, Guo Xiaochuan made full explorations and attempts, and his rich ideas and philosophical thinking were displayed in the works. "O country avenue, I love your long and wide, / Can not help but love your steepness and your protruding storm; / If you can only dance on the tile floor, what a great life!" / Oh, country avenue, I love your brightness and fertility, / can not fail to love your ups and downs, twists and turns; / how can the world of gold be opened up without such mountains and rivers! "'Country Road' is an ordinary thing that people take for granted, but in the eyes of the poet, it is associated with the path of life and expresses a profound philosophy. The "Green Yarn Tent" and "SugarCane Forest" in "Sugarcane Forest - Green Yarn Tent" are also two distinct images he created. The "green yarn tent" represents the war years of the past, and the "sugar cane forest" symbolizes the peaceful life of that time.
In his long-term career in the practice of socialist revolutionary literature creation, Guo Xiaochuan has always adhered to the artistic path of an original style. He believes that the value of literature lies in its epochality and particularity, and socialist literature is certainly no exception. A proletarian poet or writer whose works should be rich in personal characteristics on the premise of firmly grasping the pulse of the times. A writer, he said, "must be in a very sublime state of mind, he is forever connected to life, and he observes and understands everything with the sharp eyes of communism; yet he has his own unique opinion." Such a writer's work must serve the people and be faithful to the principles of socialist realism; yet he has his own style, his own characteristics, and even if his work is not signed, you can roughly guess that it is his. ”
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