<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > this old writer reflected the suffering of the lower classes from the beginning of his literary creation, and ran for national liberation</h1>
Middle-aged Luo Sun
When I was in college, I saw in various modern literary histories that when mentioning the northeast writers group, Luo Sun was listed among them. At that time, I felt a little strange: the biographies and dictionaries I saw said that the writer and literary theorist Luo Sun, whose original name was Kong Fangyan, whose pen names were Luo Sun and Ye Zhiqiu, who was originally from Shanghai, was born in Jinan, Shandong in 1912, how did he become a writer in Northeast China? Later, after reading Luo Sun's reminiscences, I learned that he spent several years of his teenage years in the northeast. He published his debut work here and began a literary career; and he was a close friend of many writers in the Northeast Writers Group, playing an important role in the formation of the "Northeast Writers Group". From this point of view, there is indeed some truth in calling him a writer in the northeast!
Around 1980, when the school dealt with old books and periodicals, I bought a set of the first volume of "Literature and Art of the War of Resistance" (photocopied). This is the journal of the All-China Literary and Art Circles Anti-Enemy Association led by the CPC, and it has important reference value for studying the literary and art movement in the Kuomintang area during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. When I saw that one of the editorial board members of this first volume was Luo Sun, I took the liberty of writing a letter asking him to introduce the situation of the journal at that time. After the letter was sent, I regretted it. Luo Sun was the editor-in-chief of the most authoritative "Literature and Art Newspaper" in the country at that time, and at the same time he was also the editorial board of several major publications, and he was an old man who was more than an old man, so how could he have time to reply to the letter?
Unexpectedly, a week later I received a handwritten reply from Luo Sun. I said that due to busy work and physical reasons, I could not give a detailed answer to the questions I raised, but I had entrusted Jiang Xijin, another editorial board member who lived in Changchun and a professor at Northeast Normal University, to answer them on my behalf. Soon after, Mr. Sikkim also wrote a letter and published a long article in a publication, answering my questions very seriously.
The enthusiasm of the literary predecessors for the young students made me awe-struck. Since then, I have been looking forward to the opportunity to meet Luo Sun. In the spring of 1982, when the school organized graduates to visit Beijing, I asked Mr. Sikkim to write a letter of introduction and prepare to meet Luo Sun when he went to Beijing. Sikkim happily wrote a text message to Luo Sun and his wife, hoping that they would receive them. Unfortunately, when I went to the dormitory of the Beijing Hufangqiao Wenlian, the Luo family had no one, so I had to bring back the "letter of introduction" and treasure it.
In the early winter of 1984, I went to the south to go out on business and stayed in Beijing for a day on my way home. It happened that it was Sunday, so I took the opportunity to go to The Hufang Bridge again and knocked on Luo Sun's door. The door opened and a medium-sized, energetic old man stood in front of me. He is Luo Sun. Maybe it was because of his old age, he was a little fat, slow moving, but he was not deaf and blind. When he learned that I was a guest from Changchun, he immediately welcomed me into the house excitedly and spoke with me enthusiastically.
It was learned from the conversation that he came to the northeast from Beiping in 1927. He lived in Harbin for a few years, and then transferred to the Changchun Post Office in the spring of 1930. During this time, he read a large number of books. In Changchun, he also gained a lot in creation. His works are mainly novels and poems. He still remembers a novel titled "Red-Headed Match", which exposed the exploitation and oppression of child labor by capitalists. The poem he wrote, "I Am Listening", was also written about factory themes. It can be seen that from the moment he picked up the pen, Luo Sun called out to reflect the suffering of the lower classes.
"At that time, the toudaogou in Changchun was a vassal of the Japanese. The Japanese policeman wears black hats and carries long knives, and is unscrupulous and vicious. Luo Sun said indignantly, "The so-called vassal land is actually a colony!" I have lived in Changchun for more than a year, witnessed the crimes of Japanese imperialism in slaughtering China, and deeply felt the depth of the national disaster. This has had a big impact on my future creations..."
Luo Sun was talking about xingnong, and suddenly there was a phone ringing, and he had to get up to answer the phone. It turned out that someone had reported to him. On Sundays, he also had a rare rest! Before leaving, Luo Sun said to me: "I am really busy now, I am older, but there are more things." However, I still have to try to go to Changchun in a short period of time and revisit the old land. I saw that there was an affectionate light in his eyes; I heard, and his voice was full of fervent thoughts. This impression has always remained clearly in my mind.
Late life Luo Sun
In the early 1990s, Mr. Sikkim told me that Luo Sun suffered from cerebral softening and went to Shanghai to recuperate at his daughter's house. On June 26, 1996, Luo Sun died at the age of 84 at Huadong Hospital in Shanghai. This bad news is what I got from the news media.
Kong Haili, the son of Luo Sun, is currently a professor at Swatmore College in the United States and is a doctoral student of the famous American sinologist Ge Haowen. Ge Haowen and I have been friends for many years, and I began by studying the northeastern writers Xiao Hong, Xiao Jun and Duanmu Hongliang. Kong Haili inherited the mantle of his teacher, immersed himself in the study of Duanmu, and published an academic monograph "The Melancholy NortheasternEr Duanmu Hongliang". In this book, he mentions the humble work "Duanmu Hongliang Chronology" many times and points out the fallacies in it, which I should be grateful for.