Fang Ji of "Xin Ji Party History Figures"

Today I would like to introduce you to the second party history figure - Fang Ji.

Fang Ji (1919-1998) was originally named Feng Ji, a native of Xinji County. Famous writer, poet and proletarian revolutionary.

During his studies in Beiping, he participated in the "Left-Wing Writers Union" and the 129 Patriotic Student Movement. In May 1936, he joined the Communist Party of China, and was sent back to his hometown to work in the autumn, and formed the Local Team of the Chinese National Liberation Vanguard Zhinan Center in Tongshiying Village and served as the leader. After the beginning of the all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he went south to Wuhan, Changsha, Chongqing, and other places to do propaganda work, and created a large number of literary works that inspired the people and publicized the War of Resistance. In 1939, he went to Yan'an and successively worked in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region Literary and Art Circles Anti-Enemy Association, the Third Department of the Central Party School, and the Liberation Daily. In May 1942, at the invitation of Chairman Mao Zedong, he participated in the famous Yan'an Literary and Art Forum. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he served as the deputy director of the Rehe Provincial Federation of Literature and Literature, founded the literary journal "Boom", and carried out cultural propaganda activities. In 1947, he went to Shulu and Raoyang to participate in the land reform movement, achieved remarkable results, and created a famous novel reflecting the anti-Japanese and land reform movement of the people in Jizhong, "The Story Under the Old Mulberry Tree". In 1949, he went to Tianjin and successively served as the director of the literature and art department of Tianjin Daily, the director of the Tianjin Municipal Bureau of Culture, the deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Municipal Party Committee, and the chairman of the Writers Association. In 1956, nominated by Premier Zhou Enlai and as a special reporter of the People's Daily, he participated in the Yangtze River Hydrographic Survey Team and composed the group poem "Endless Yangtze River Rolling In", which was filmed by the Central News Film Studio as a documentary of the same name. In 1960, he created the popular classic essay "Between the Waves", which described the touching scenes of Mao Zedong when he left Yan'an for Chongqing in August 1945 to negotiate, and was later compiled into middle school Chinese textbooks. He was persecuted and disabled during the Cultural Revolution. In 1979, he was appointed as a member of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and a director of the Writers Association.