Yu Guangzhong dabbled in modern poetry, modern prose, translation, criticism and other literary fields. Liang Shiqiu, a writer, once praised him for "writing poetry with his right hand and prose with his left hand, and his achievements are high and there is no difference at one time."
In this era when many people don't read poetry, Yu Guangzhong is an "outlier". His "Homesickness" was selected as a middle school textbook and became a must-read poem for every student in China.
Yu Guangzhong, a native of Yongchun, Quanzhou, Fujian, is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese. Mother Sun Xiujun is from Wujin, Jiangsu. After graduating from Changzhou Normal School, he was assigned to teach in Yongchun, Fujian, and married Yu Chaoying, then the county education director.
Yu Chaoying later worked for the government of the Republic of China, specializing in overseas Chinese affairs. The Son of Cornus officinalis was born in Jinling, a gathering place of people in the Six Dynasties. The beautiful water of Lingshan, a famous place in the tenth generation, infiltrated his childhood with broken teeth.