1933, he joined the Shanghai Left-wing Writers' Union. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression,/kloc-0 joined the New Fourth Army in 1938, and/kloc-0 joined the China * * * Production Party in 1939. Participated in famous battles such as Laiwu and Huaihai during the War of Liberation. After liberation, he served as the Deputy Minister of Culture of the Political Department of East China Military Region. After 1952, he worked in Shanghai, and served as vice chairman of Shanghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles, vice chairman of Shanghai Branch of Chinese Writers Association and president of Shanghai Novelists Association. 1990 died at the age of 80.
As a teenager, Wu Qiang often entertained himself with literature, and he couldn't put down The Journey to the West, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Water Margin, Three Heroes and Five Righteousnesses and other books. Every night, his friends always pester him to tell stories like "the Monkey King makes a scene in Heaven" and "Monkey King Thrice Defeats the Skeleton Demon". He told these stories vividly and made his friends dance. When he was in middle school, he had already started literary creation. In Huai 'an Middle School, he wrote, "Cheng Chunke is many, but there are few flowers in the small building. In my dream, my mother was crying and the boat fell into the water in Yangzhou. " Poems were also circulated with classmates by mail order from Shanghai, such as The True Story of Ah Q, Before and After Death Anyway, and a mimeographed publication Gale was founded to publish poems, essays and current affairs comments written by him and his classmates. However, "Gale" was only published for two issues, and it was seized by the Huai 'an Party Department of the Kuomintang. Later, he sent his article "Wang's Anti-smoking Policy" to the "New Review" edited by Zhang Naiqi and published it one after another.
In Shanghai Zhengfeng Middle School, Wu Qiang became a member of the "New Poetry Society" hosted by Pu Feng and the "Unknown Literature Society" hosted by Ye Zi and Chen Qixia. 1In February, 933, he joined the League of Chinese Left-wing Writers under the leadership of the Party and served as the group leader of Huxi Zhengfeng Middle School. From then on, he began a revolutionary literary career. 1In September, 935, Wu Qiang published his first short story "Telephone Pole" in Taibai magazine sponsored by Chen Wangdao, and won the essay writing award in the same year for the short story "Bitter Face".
When he was studying in Henan University, his family stopped sending him money, and his father was worried about this "careless" son and no longer expected him to have a future. Wu Qiang also serves as the principal of a primary school and the editor of the supplement of Henan Evening News to meet the needs of life. Under the pseudonym of Wu Qiang and Ye Rutong, he frequently published a short story "Under the Riptide" and a collection of essays "Night Walk" reflecting War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's life in Shanghai Ta Kung Pao and Literature Position edited by Mao Dun. From 65438 to 0937, Wu Qiang, Yao and others founded Storm Weekly, an anti-Japanese national salvation publication. Therefore, his literary career is closely linked with the liberation and construction of the Chinese nation.
After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Wu Qiang joined the army. 1938, 15 joined the new fourth army in Yunling village, Jingxian county, southern Anhui province in August, and joined the China * * * production party in June of the following year 10. He has served as the director and section chief of the task department of the Political Department of the New Fourth Army and the deputy director of the Enemy Works Department of the Political Department of the Second Division of the Soviet Area. In the war-torn era, under the leadership of the Party, Wu Qiang fought bravely against the enemy with a gun in his hand, and at the same time reflected the fiery life of the army and base areas with his pen. He has written more than ten works such as A Front, Cataclysm and A Family in Southern Anhui, and created short stories such as Ye Jiji and Pony Joining the Army.
He has been engaged in literary creation for more than 50 years, and has written novels such as Red Sun, Fortress (I) and essays such as Heart Tide Collection. His masterpiece Red Sun was published in 1957, which had a great influence on China's contemporary military literature creation. "Red Sun" has also become one of the textbooks in Unit 3 of Grade Six in primary schools.