The famous poem in Red Rock includes:
It has only been a few months in the cave, but a thousand years have passed in the world.
For the brave, tears stain his name.
The old society turned people into ghosts, and the new society turned ghosts into people.
In struggle, I can learn to fight.
No matter how big the storm is, he will never panic.
Creative background:
In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, in order to educate young people in revolutionary traditions, Luo Guangbin, Yang Yiyan and Liu Debin, who had fought side by side with them, were imprisoned together. Write down your personal experience of fighting the enemy. On July 1, 1950, the reportage "Holy Blood Flower", a collaborative work of three people, began to be published in Chongqing's "Popular Literature and Art". Later, the East China and South China People's Publishing Houses successively published single volumes.
In 1958, the revolutionary memoir "Eternal Life in the Fire", a collaboration between the three, was published in "Flowing Red Flag". On this basis, Luo Guangbin and Yang Yiyan created the excellent novel "Red Rock". After the publication of the novel, it aroused strong repercussions in the society and was praised as "the wonderful book of communism". It was translated into many foreign languages ??and won great reputation for Chinese socialist literature at home and abroad. During the "Cultural Revolution", the book was slandered as "traitor literature" and banned, and the author was also tortured. Luo Guangbin and Yang Yiyan were brutally persecuted after the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution. One of the authors, Luo Guangbin, died unjustly in February 1967. After the "Cultural Revolution" the novel was republished.
About the author:
Luo Guangbin (1924--1967) was born in Chengdu, Sichuan. Joined the Communist Party of China in 1948. Engaged in student movement work and used his family connections to carry out united front work and instigation of rebellion. In September 1948, he was arrested in Chengdu for betrayal by a traitor and imprisoned in Zhazidong and Baigongguan Prisons. He persisted in the struggle in prison and refused the bail of his brother Luo Guangwen (a direct descendant of Chiang Kai-shek and the commander of the 15th Corps of the Kuomintang). He would rather go to jail than write a letter of repentance. Together with fellow prisoners, he secretly made a five-star red flag to welcome liberation. On the night of the massacre on November 27, 1949, he instigated guard Yang Qindian and led the prisoners to successfully escape from prison collectively. After liberation, he successively served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Chongqing Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League, the Municipal United Front Work Minister, and a member of the Municipal Federation of Literary and Art Circles. He was actively engaged in publicizing the revolutionary deeds of martyrs and was one of the main creators of the novel "Red Rock". In 1967, he was falsely accused as a traitor and persecuted to death.
Yang Yiyan (1925--2017) was born in Wusheng County, Sichuan. He studied at Tongji University in 1940 and was later expelled from the school for participating in the student movement in Shanghai. He was arrested in August 1948 and imprisoned in Zhazidong of the "China-US Cooperation Institute" in Chongqing. He was rescued and released from prison on the eve of the liberation of Chongqing. After liberation, he worked in the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee and successively served as section chief, office director, and standing committee member. He joined the Chinese Writers Association in 1963 and became a professional writer in the Chongqing Federation of Literary and Art Circles of Sichuan Province. In 1979, he attended the Fourth Congress of Chinese Literary and Art Workers and was elected as a member of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles. In 1980, he was elected vice chairman of the Sichuan Branch of the Chinese Writers Association.