Guo Moruo is from Leshan County, Sichuan Province. He studied at Chengdu Shishi Middle School as a teenager. Father Guo Chaopei runs a business. His mother, Du Aozhen, was the daughter of a declining official family.
In 1914, Guo Moruo studied in Japan and studied medicine at Kyushu Imperial University. In 1921, he published his first collection of new poems, "Goddess", which was filled with a strong romanticism. "Goddess" was the foundation work of Chinese new poetry, and Guo Moruo became one of the important founders of new Chinese poetry. In the same year, he also collaborated with Yu Dafu. Together with others, he founded the Shanghai Literary Society "Creation Society" and was an important standard-bearer of the New Culture Movement. Creation Quarterly was published on March 15, 1922. Guo Moruo's poems during this period, together with the works of the New Culture Movement and the May Fourth Movement by Hu Shi and others, influenced Taiwan's early new poetry creation during the Japanese occupation.
He himself also wrote a large number of drama scripts to inspire people's morale, including "Qu Yuan", "Tiger Talisman", "Tangdi Flower", "South Crown Grass", "Peacock Gut", and "Gao Jianli" Among the six historical tragedies, "Qu Yuan" is the most popular. Wang Yuanyi, a professor at the Department of History at National Taiwan University, believes that the works of Guo Moruo and others during this period created a literary and cultural path that combined popular forms with elite creations and preserved modernity and traditional national culture. During the Kuomintang Civil War in 1948, Guo Moruo was elected as the first academician of the Academia Sinica for his great achievements in archeology and oracle bone inscriptions. Researcher Pan Guangzhe of the Institute of Modern History of Academia Sinica in Taiwan described the election of academicians of Academia Sinica and the election process of Guo Moruo in the article "Lauren in the Knowledge Field: Starting from the Election of the First Academician of Academia Sinica".
Guo Moruo was a member of the 9th, 10th, and 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and a vice chairman of the 2nd, 3rd, and 5th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Guo Moruo's important works include "Two Weeks of Bronze Inscriptions and Illustrations", "Blockwork Collection of Bronze Inscriptions", and "Compilation of Bronze Inscriptions", etc., which have caused a sensation in the academic world; his life writings include "Collected Works of Guo Moruo" (17 volumes) and "The Complete Works of Guo Moruo" . The main literary works in his life include: poetry collections "Goddess", "Starry Sky", "Vase", "Qianmao", "Restoration", "Chapter Collection", "Sounds of War", etc.; prose "My Childhood", "Before and After" and "Ten Years of Creation" "Northern Expedition", "Boiling Soup Collection", etc.; dramas "Three Rebellious Women", "Qu Yuan", "Tiger Fu", "Tangdi's Flower", "Gao Jianli", "Cai Wenji", "Wu Zetian", etc.; and "Selected Poems of Moruo" ” and translated Goethe’s “Faust”, etc. The People's Literature Publishing House publishes "The Complete Works of Guo Moruo".
Guo Moruo enjoys a high status in the fields of modern Chinese literary history, Chinese history, archaeology and other fields. He is another glorious banner on the Chinese cultural front after Lu Xun. The works are collected into the 17-volume "Collected Works of Moruo" (1957-1963). The newly compiled "The Complete Works of Guo Moruo" is divided into three parts: literature (20 volumes), history and archeology, which have been published successively since 1982. Many works have been translated into Japanese, Russian, English, German, Italian, French and other languages. Among them, "Sky Market in the Sky" and "Quiet Night" were selected into the seventh-grade People's Education Press textbook. "Ode to Thunder" was selected into the eighth grade textbook.
Characterology
Guo Moruo is one of the four oracle bone studies: Dingtang. His works include "Research on Oracle Bone Writing", "Compilation of Oracle Bones", "Dialectical Development of Ancient Writing", "Phaseization Issues in Ancient Chinese History", "Research on Ancient Chinese Society", "The Bronze Age", "Ten Criticisms", "The Age of Slavery", etc.
In the fields of ancient Chinese history and archeology, the reputation of the “Four Halls” of Oracle Bone Science is well known to everyone. Mr. Tang Lan’s evaluation of the four halls is: the study of Yin Ruins inscriptions “starts with Xuetang (Luo Zhenyu) who leads the way, Guantang (Wuowei Wei) follows the history test, Yantang (Dong Zuobin) distinguishes his era, Dingtang (Guo Moruo) The publication of his rhetoric has definitely achieved great success for a while." These four lectures basically represent the process and achievements of oracle bone research before 1949. Their academic contributions and status are equally between the two, making it difficult to weigh their importance. But from the perspective of the theory and system construction of the oracle bone science discipline, Mr. Dong Zuobin has made particularly great contributions. Without his outstanding contributions to the scientific excavation of oracle bone inscriptions and dating research, the new discipline of oracle bone science might not have emerged from the ancient matrix of epigraphy so quickly.
Bibliography of Guo Moruo's main translations
[Creative Bibliography]
Sanye Collection (Correspondence Collection), co-authored by Tian Shouchang, Zong Baihua and Guo Moruo, 1920 May August, Shanghai, Yadong Library
The Goddess (Collection of Poetry and Drama), August 1921, Shanghai, Taidong Library, Juaner Collection (Collection of Modern Translations of "The Book of Songs: Guofeng"), August 1923, Shanghai, Taidong Library
Starry Sky (Collection of Poetry and Prose), October 1923, Shanghai, Taidong Library
Nie Xin (Two Act Play), September 1925, Shanghai , Guanghua Book Company
Collection of Literary and Art Essays, December 1925, Shanghai, Guanghua Book Company
Tower (Collection of Novels and Dramas) January 1926, Shanghai, Commercial Press
Three Rebellious Women (drama collection), April 1926, Shanghai, Guanghua Book Company
Falling Leaves (novella), April 1926, Shanghai, Creation Press Publishing Department
< p>Olives (Collection of Novels and Prose), September 1926, Shanghai, Publishing Department of Creation SocietyVase (Collection of Poems), April 1927, Shanghai, Publishing Department of Creation Society
Top (Collection of Poems) February 1928, Shanghai, Publishing Department of Creation Society
Restored (Collection of Poems) March 1928, Shanghai, Publishing Department of Creation Society
Horizontal Offline (Collection of Prose) 1928 May 2018, Shanghai, Publishing Department of Creation Society