He Qifang is the author of the poetry collections "Prophecy", "Night Songs and Daytime Songs", and the prose collections "The Spark Collection", "The Continuation of the Spark Collection", "Miscellaneous Notes on Returning Home", and "Drawing Dreams" .
He Qifang is the author of essay collections "On Realism", "Xiyuan Collection", "On the Dream of Red Mansions", "Spring of Literature and Art", "On Writing and Reading Poems", "He Qifang's Poems" "Manuscript", "Manuscript of He Qifang's Poetry Translation", etc.
Representative work:
"How Vast Life Is" This poem mainly inspires young people to discover the treasures of life, and encourages them to combine ordinary life with great goals, so as to Solid labor to approach a better future shows the poet's new understanding and feeling of life and the meaning of life under the illumination of new ideals.
The whole poem has a clear and open style, does not pay attention to rhyme, and uses simple and fluent spoken language to form the rhythm. It is full of vitality, bursts out the spark of eager hope for a new life, and effectively conveys the warm and rich inner hope, which makes the poem full of vitality. People feel real.
"Hanyuan Collection" is a collection of three young poets published in 1936, including He Qifang's "Yanni Collection", Li Guangtian's "Xingyun Collection", Bian Zhilin's "Several Lines Collection", Collected seventeen poems by He Qifang, seventeen poems by Li Guangtian, and thirty-four poems by Bian Zhilin. He Shiduo sings about love and nature, with a quiet and gentle style;
Li Shiduo expresses the static beauty in life and thinking about life, with a simple and honest style; Bian's poems may show life scenes in old Beijing, or Expressing the loneliness of life, their style is concise and implicit. They continued to explore along the path of poetry opened by Dai Wangshu and formed their own unique style. They are a new generation of poets who pay more attention to the integration of Eastern and Western poetics.
"I Sing for Boys and Girls" is a widely circulated lyric poem created by He Qifang. It was written in 1941 and included in the first volume of "Collected Works of He Qifang" in 1983. In this poem, the author expresses his longing for youth by "singing for boys and girls" and sincerely praises the new power.
Extended information:
He Qifang (1912-1977) was a famous literary theorist, poet and writer. He once served as the director of the Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Sciences (now the Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) and a member of the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences.
There are many stories about He Qifang circulating among the "old people" in the literature institute. The old people in these literature institutes are so keen on telling about He Qifang that the newcomers in the literature institute also raised their heads of respect. ears; when this new group of people became old themselves, they started a new round of telling - just like this, He Qifang's story was passed down from generation to generation in literary institutes.
He Qifang was addicted to books as much as his life. According to his own words, "It is hard to change the book habit in life, and I can only write poems if I can't do anything" ("Remembering the Past"). "Knowing the ancient princes of dung soil" ("Oucheng"), even if "the famous mountains of Daze are dreaming in the sky", they still have to "sparse clothes and food to collect books" ("Self-mockery").
He Qifang’s family lived in Dongdan, not far from Wangfujing. At that time, the Dong’an Market in Wangfujing had not yet been renovated, and there were rows of second-hand bookstores. It is said that He Qifang would visit the old Dong’an Market every Sunday. At the book store, it was only after dark that I loaded up a flatbed truck with books and went home. My father said that in his later years, He Qifang “used crutches to carry back bundles of books from the bookstore after suffering from heart disease.”
I don’t know how many of the carts and bundles of books that He Qifang brought back and carried back that year were bought for himself, and how many were purchased for the literary institute? And this Are there any folk songs such as treasure scrolls among the cars and bundles of books? But I guess He Qifang doesn’t have free time to visit bookstores every Sunday.
No one in the Institute of Literature had any objection to the professional title evaluation resolution drawn up by He Qifang, because no one did not trust He Qifang’s academic judgment, and no one doubted that He Qifang would be unfair. He Qifang assigned professional titles to all researchers, except himself. He believed that he was the director and was doing administrative work and should no longer enjoy the benefits of professional titles.
In the legend of the Institute of Literature, that time was the most controversial and the least regretful professional title evaluation in the history of the Institute of Literature. From then until today, He Qifang has always been in the hearts of people in the Institute of Literature. The embodiment of justice and authority.
Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia - He Qifang
People's Daily Online - Everyone He Qifang: It's hard to change your life to be a bibliophile and do nothing but write poems