The novel "Lin Hai Xueyuan", published by the People's Literature Publishing House in the mid-1950s, was only a thousand yuan in writing fees, which was not as good as some celebrities today who published a book of little value but could make hundreds of thousands of yuan, or even millions of yuan. However, according to the rough statistics of relevant persons, from September 1957 to June 1991, when the Copyright Law of the People's Republic of China was officially implemented, the total number of copies published and reprinted by many domestic publishing houses reached 4.5 million copies, ranking the highest number of literary works published in the Republic. Its author, Qu Bo, can be called the veritable chief bestseller of New China. If according to the laws of the market economy, this old writer can become a millionaire by relying solely on royalties; if he adds the remuneration that his works should be adapted into popular movies, dramas, operas, etc., he is afraid that he will be a multi-millionaire. But in reality, life is quite difficult.
Qu Bo was born on February 22, 1923, to a poor peasant family in Zaolinzhuang, Huang County, Shandong Province. He joined the Eighth Route Army at the age of 15 and joined the Communist Party of China at the age of 17. In the winter of 1946, he led a small unit to participate in the struggle against bandits in the snowy plains of the Northern Manchuria Forest Sea. During this period, he successively served as the political commissar of the brigade, the director of the regimental political office, and the regimental political commissar. In the Battle of Liaoshen, he was seriously wounded, the femoral artery was broken, causing heavy bleeding, and his life was rescued, but his body was left with a disability, and one leg was 4 centimeters shorter. In 1950, he took up a new job on crutches, successively serving as vice president of the Design Institute of the Ministry of Railways and deputy director of the General Bureau of Industry of the Ministry of Railways.
In February 1955, he officially began to write a novel "Lin Hai Snow Field", which was completed in August of the following year. After the novel was published, it aroused strong repercussions and was adapted into plays, movies, operas, comic strips, and translated into many foreign languages. In particular, it was adapted into Peking Opera's "Wise Tiger Mountain", and its heroic character Yang Zirong has been praised by people to this day. He donated all the fees for the book to the Writers' Association. In 1966, Qu Bo completed the novel "Bridge Longbiao", which is set against the background of the War of Resistance Against Japan and shapes the image of the leader of the peasant uprising, but due to the outbreak of the "Cultural Revolution", the books that had been printed were first criticized, and then pulled to the paper mill to melt the pulp. "Lin Hai Snow Field" has also been criticized. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Qu Bo was able to rehabilitate Zhaoxue. In 1979, he attended the Fourth National Literary Congress and was elected as a member of the third council of the China Writers Association. In the same year, his "Bridge Longbiao" and his new work "Mountain Hu Tsunami" were published by the People's Literature Publishing House and the Tianjin Hundred Flowers Publishing House respectively.