Wen Yiduo (November 24, 1899 - July 15, 1946), whose real name was Wen Jiahua and whose courtesy name was Yousan, was born in Xishui County, Huanggang City, Hubei Province. He was a great patriot in modern China. activist, a staunch democracy fighter, an early leader of the China Democratic League, a close friend of the Communist Party of China, and a representative poet and scholar of the Crescent Party.
Biography:
Wen Yiduo has been interested in classical poetry and fine arts since childhood. In 1912, he was admitted to Tsinghua School in Beijing. He loved to read ancient Chinese poetry collections, poetry talks, history books, notes, etc. In 1916, he began to publish a series of reading notes in "Tsinghua Weekly", collectively called "February Lu Manji". At the same time, he wrote old style poems. During the May 4th Movement in 1919, he actively participated in the student movement and was elected as a student representative of Tsinghua University to attend the National Student Federation held in Shanghai. In April 1920, he published his first vernacular article "The Passenger-Style Student". In September of the same year, he published his first new poem "West Bank". In November 1921, he initiated the establishment of the Tsinghua Literature Society with Liang Shiqiu and others. In March of the following year, he wrote "Research on the Basics of Rhymed Poetry" and began to systematically study the metrical theory of new poetry. In July 1922, he went to the United States to study. At the end of the year, "Winter Night Cao'er Commentary" co-authored with Liang Shiqiu was published, which represented Wen Yiduo's early views on new poetry. In September 1923, the first new poetry collection "Red Candle" was published, which had an aesthetic tendency.
He returned to China in May 1925 and served as the dean of Beijing Art College. In 1926, he participated in the founding of "Morning News. Poetry" and published the famous paper "The Rhythm of Poetry". In 1927, he served as the Art Section Chief of the Political Department of the Wuhan National Revolutionary Army. In the autumn of the same year, he was appointed director of the Department of Foreign Languages ??and Literature at Sun Yat-sen University in Nanjing. In January 1928, his second collection of poems, "Dead Water," was published. In March 1928, he was listed as editor of "Crescent" magazine. He resigned the following year due to differences in views. In the autumn of 1928, he served as dean of the School of Liberal Arts and director of the Chinese Department of National Wuhan University, and since then devoted himself to the study of Chinese classical literature. In the late autumn of 1930, he went to Shandong to serve as dean of the School of Liberal Arts and director of the Chinese Department of Qingdao University. In August 1932, he returned to Peiping and served as professor of the Chinese Language Department of Tsinghua University.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he moved south with the school and walked with his students from Changsha to Kunming. After that, he taught at Southwest Associated University for 8 years and actively participated in the anti-Japanese movement and the struggle against dictatorship and democracy. Academically, he has extensively studied the cultural heritage of the motherland and has written monographs such as "Myths and Poems" and "Complementary Edition of Chu Ci". Joined the China Democratic League in 1944. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he served as the Central Executive Committee of the Democratic League and often participated in progressive rallies and demonstrations. On July 15, 1946, at a meeting to commemorate Mr. Li Gongpu, he angrily denounced the Kuomintang's crime of assassinating Li Gongpu and delivered the famous "Last Speech". He was killed by Kuomintang agents that afternoon.
Character Evaluation Editor
Wen Yiduo is not only a great poet, but also an outstanding scholar. He is a very outstanding writer after the May 4th Movement. He also has a poem "Mr. Wen's Desk", which is very well written. He writes about the pen, ink, paper and inkstone on his desk. He started to complain when he looked at those things. [13] (Sohu Review)
Wen Yiduo loves his motherland, and patriotism is like a red thread running through his life, eventually leading him to socialism and communism. The path of his life was tortuous. He once had confusion, mistakes and depression, but after deep thought and the care and help of the Communist Party of China, he finally found the truth. Once he found the truth, he never looked back and was unyielding. Go forward courageously and fight heroically to realize the truth until you give up your precious life. Wen Yiduo was erudite and talented. In addition to the study of new poetry and ancient literature, he also had profound attainments in art, drama, calligraphy, seal cutting, etc.
Main Achievements Editor
When creating the metrical style, Wen Yiduo put forward a specific proposition, which is the three beauties: the strength of poetry not only includes the beauty of music, the beauty of painting, And there is also the beauty of the architecture. Musical beauty refers to the auditory beauty of poetry, including the beauty of rhythm, rhythm, stress, rhyme, pauses, etc. It requires harmony, conforms to the poet's mood, and is smooth and not awkward. This does not include special effects. And use sound.
Painting beauty means that the vocabulary of poetry should try its best to express colors and express pictures with rich colors.
Architectural beauty refers to the free verse, which means that each stanza of a poem should be symmetrical, and each line of poetry should be the same length? The same length does not mean that the number of words is exactly equal, but that the number of musical notes should be the same. There are many, so that the metrical poem has a symmetrical and uniform appearance.