Introduction of Guo Ruomo

Guo Moruo (1892165438+10/6-65438+6 12 0978), a young man, was originally named Kaizhen, whose name was Dingtang, Wu Shang, Leshan, Sichuan. China is a famous modern writer, playwright and poet. At the same time, he is also a historian, an ancient philologist, a calligrapher, a scholar and a social activist, and devoted himself to the world peace movement.

Guo Moruo has written a lot, editing China's Historical Manuscripts and Oracle Bone Inscriptions's Collected Works, and all his works are incorporated into the Complete Works of Guo Moruo in 38 volumes. He is one of the founders of China's new poetry, one of the founders of China's historical drama, a pioneer of China's historical materialism, an archaeologist, a social activist, one of the four schools in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, and an academician of the First Academia Sinica.

After 1949, he successively served as the first president of China Academy of Sciences, vice premier of the Central People's Government and director of the Culture and Education Committee, vice chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC), the first chairman of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and the first president of the University of Science and Technology of China.

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Guo Moruo enjoys a high position in the history of modern literature in China and in the fields of history and archaeology in China. In literature, the second official textbook of modern literature history is Lu Guo Mao Ba Lao Cao; In historiography, it is listed as one of the "Five Marxist Historiography".

Guo Moruo once regarded Goethe as his own situation, which was widely recognized by the cultural circles. For example, Zhou Yang once said to Guo, "You are Goethe, but you are the Goethe of new China in the socialist era." ; Sha quoted Engels' evaluation of Goethe and pointed out that Guo Moruo was a great genius and an ordinary citizen.

Some people admire Guo Moruo very much, while others despise him. Some serious researchers, such as Professor Wen Rumin, director of the Chinese Department of Peking University, call this completely opposite attitude of "academic school" and the public towards Guo Moruo "bipolar reading".

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