Introduction to Guo Moruo

1. Guo Moruo (November 16, 1892 - June 12, 1978), whose childhood name was Wenbao, whose original name was Kaizhen, with the courtesy name Dingtang and the nickname Shangwu, was born in Leshan County, Sichuan Province (now Leshan, Sichuan Province) City area) Hakka. A famous modern Chinese writer, playwright, and poet. He is also a historian, paleographer, calligrapher, scholar, and social activist who is committed to the world peace movement.

2. Guo Moruo has written extensively and edited "Manuscripts of Chinese History" and "Collection of Oracle Bone Inscriptions". All his works are compiled into 38 volumes of "The Complete Works of Guo Moruo". He is one of the founders of new Chinese poetry, one of the pioneers and founders of Chinese historical drama, a pioneer of Chinese materialist historiography, a paleographer, an archaeologist, a social activist, one of the four oracle bone studies, and the first session Academician of Academia Sinica.

3. After 1949, he served as the first president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, deputy prime minister of the Government Affairs Council of the Central People's Government and director of the Culture and Education Committee, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, first chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The first president of the Technical University.

4. In the art of calligraphy, Guo Moruo has also made extraordinary achievements and occupies an important position in the history of modern calligraphy. Guo Moruo used "turn back and turn around, go against the grain and come out flat" as the eight-character key to writing a book. His calligraphy style not only emphasizes inheritance from teachers, but also is innovative, showing bold creative spirit and vivid characteristics of the times, and is praised as "Guo style" by the world.