Tianjin is an important town in the north of China, with developed industry and commerce and strong cultural atmosphere. Zhang Gaofeng thus broadened his horizons, especially the students' newspapers in the school library, which attracted him deeply and became his daily required reading. He thinks that being a reporter can express his views, stand up for the people and comment on current politics. Is an enviable freelancer. He began to consciously cultivate his writing ability and tried to run a publication with like-minded students. Although he can't make ends meet, his pursuit as a reporter is becoming more and more clear.
1933, Japanese invaders invaded North China. Tang Yulin, then chairman and warlord of Jehol Province, gave up Chengde without firing a shot, causing an uproar in the whole country. The soup department fled to Tianjin in panic, and stragglers ran rampant in the market, disturbing the people and harming the people. Zhang Gaofeng, a junior high school student in Tianjin, was outraged and wrote an article entitled "Killiable Tang Yulin", which was published in Tianjin Zhongnan Daily. This is the first newspaper article in his life, which directly hits the current politics and speaks for the people. Recalling this incident in his later years, Zhang Gaofeng said, "It is not important to kill Tang Yulin. What is important is that I publicly expressed my views through the newspaper for the first time. " He 15 years old that year and started his writing career.
After being infatuated with journalism, Zhang Gaofeng went to Beijing, an ancient cultural capital, to study. After school, he went to a news agency to work and study, and at the same time learned to run interviews and write manuscripts. He wrote an article satirizing the traitor troops of the puppet regime in Jidong at that time, which almost killed him. The army went to Lutai to arrest people, and his mother complained everywhere, even preferring to hand over the younger son to make amends and save the eldest son's life. It was not until the squire came forward as a guarantor and said, "Give him a break because the child is not sensible.". Until his later years, my brother was still obsessed with the past, which almost made him "guilty" and became a joke for a while.
1937 "July 7th Incident", Ping Jin fell. Unwilling to be conquered people, Zhang Gaofeng bid farewell to his relatives in his hometown, joined the army, and went south to join the propaganda team of exiled students in Peiping and Tianjin to serve in the battlefield. In the famous Battle of Taierzhuang, he braved artillery fire to work with the army, collected and wrote battlefield newsletters at the same time, mailed them to Mr. Zou Taofen, and published "The War of Resistance Against Japan" three times, thus establishing contact. Mr. Tao Fen's concern and support for young people, as well as his conscientious and responsible work, have greatly influenced Zhang Gaofeng, becoming a lesson in his journalism, benefiting him for life and becoming an example. 1February, 938, participated in the Taierzhuang campaign, collected and wrote battlefield communication with sharp writing style, and his works were published in The War of Japan edited by Zou Taofen in Hankou. Later, I moved to Changsha and joined the International News Agency. The following year, he served as a special correspondent of China * * * production party Shaoyang Observation Daily. His interviews have spread all over Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan and Henan provinces, and he also went north to the Yellow River to interview the Jinnan Anti-Japanese Base Area of the Eighth Route Army. In addition to writing newsletters, he also wrote new style poems, Tong Di and Ye Liu, which were published in Chongqing Xinhua Daily. 65438-0940 was admitted to the Political Department of Wuhan University and concurrently served as a special correspondent of Ta Kung Pao. And participate in the "China Young Journalists Association". At school, I was the editor-in-chief of the wall newspaper news unit, engaged in various progressive activities, and was later ordered to drop out of school.
1938 10 met Fan Changjiang, a famous journalist, in Changsha through Liu Liangmo, a famous patriot and social activist, and immediately joined Hunan Observer, an international news agency hosted by Fan, as a special correspondent, and was also an early member of China Young Journalists Association (now the predecessor of China Journalists Association).
During the period of 1940, Zhang Gaofeng, who studied at Wuhan University (later moved to Leshan, Sichuan), persisted in journalism practice in her spare time, not only contributing to newspapers, but also hosting the "News Power" wall newspaper and holding a national newspaper exhibition at school. It coincides with the recruitment of Sichuan journalists in Ta Kung Pao. He finally became the most influential special correspondent of Ta Kung Pao in China through his own submission and recommendation, and made an exception and obtained the "certificate of news telegram paid by the receiver". Zhang Gaofeng recalled before his death: "Ta Kung Pao employs people regardless of their qualifications, but this is the only way to train people. If they are combined, they will use them. If not, they will go. I am a young student they have never even met, but I became the first correspondent of Ta Kung Pao with the right to send news. As a matter of fact, I am the only reporter in Ta Kung Pao who gets paid. The trust of Ta Kung Pao made him work harder and more willing to win glory for it.
1942 65438+ Zhang Gaofeng was a war correspondent of Ta Kung Pao in February and went to Henan for an interview.
1In February, 943, Ta Kung Pao published his newsletter "Disaster Preparedness Record" (formerly known as Hungry Henan), which exposed the tragic scene that Henan suffered from four disasters: flood, drought, locust and soup (Bourne). Angry Chiang Kai-shek, Ta Kung Pao was closed for three days. He was arrested and imprisoned for several months on the charge of "leader of the production party", which was called "Zhang Gaofeng Incident" in Henan at that time. It was not until the Japanese army attacked the Central Plains on a large scale and the Tang department fled that he was released "without evidence" and returned to Chongqing via Shaanxi. Ta Kung Pao held a grand welcoming tea party specially for him, and spoke highly of him for promoting righteousness, not afraid of power, and boldly exposing the perversion of the National Government. At this point, the "Zhang Gaofeng Incident" that caused a sensation in Henan came to an end. Later, Zhang Dalei changed his name to "How I was arrested" and published it in Xinhua Daily.
1944, Qiu Zhangfeng returned to Wuhan University to study and served as a correspondent of Ta Kung Pao. 1945 After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he returned to Chongqing as a reporter for Ta Kung Pao, responsible for diplomatic and financial news reports. 1946 and then transferred to Ta Kung Pao as a correspondent in Tianjin, Beiping and Shenyang and a correspondent in Northeast China. He collected and wrote many communication reports, focusing on opposing the civil war and anti-American aid to Chiang Kai-shek, which sounded the death knell for the dictatorship of the Kuomintang. During the period of 1948, Zhang Gaofeng's three newsletters were published in Chongqing Ta Kung Pao: Northeast Cold, Northeast Dry and Left in the Pants Room.
After 1949, Zhang Gaofeng successively served as the head of Ta Kung Pao Business Group, Tianjin Journalist Group and North China Journalist Station. Later, due to the "Left" wind flooding, he was sent to Anda City, Heilongjiang Province, and changed to commercial work. 1963 transferred back to Tianjin to compile industrial and commercial historical materials in the Municipal Federation of Industry and Commerce. During the "Cultural Revolution", he was assigned to work in the "May 7th" cadre school in the eastern suburbs, and then transferred to the countryside to jump the queue. After the implementation of the 1978 policy, it was transferred to Tianjin CPPCC Literature and History Research Committee to collect and sort out literature and history materials. Editor-in-chief has books such as Selected Works of Tianjin Literature and History, Modern Characters of Tianjin, and Fan Xudong, the Pioneer of Chemical Industry. He has been a member of the sixth, seventh and eighth sessions of Tianjin CPPCC, deputy director of the office of the Literature and History Research Committee, consultant to the local chronicles compilation committees of Ninghe County and Lutai Town, member of China Democratic League and member of China Democratic National Construction Association.