Li Ji (1922—— 1980), a famous modern poet, was born in August 1922 in Qiyi Town, tanghe county, Henan Province. Formerly known as Li Zhenpeng, his pen names are Li Ji and Yu Yifan. 1938 studied at Yan' an Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, joined China * * * Production Party in May of the following year, went to Taihang Mountain after graduation, and served as political instructor and liaison staff in the Eighth Route Army. 1942 winter solstice 1947, worked in the three sides of northern Shaanxi, worked as a primary school teacher, secretary of county government and editor of local tabloid. During these five or six years of fighting life, he contacted all kinds of people, learned many touching revolutionary historical stories, and became familiar with the thoughts, personalities, languages and favorite literary forms of the people in northern Shaanxi, which laid a solid foundation for his later creation. 1942, after the publication of "Mao Zedong's Speech at Yan 'an Forum on Literature and Art", it gave him great inspiration and encouragement, aroused his strong desire for creation and began to write amateur works. He tried to write Zhang Hui's novel "The Old Master of Yin and Yang is furious with the Insect Master" and other works in the form of folk songs. /kloc-at the end of 0/945, an excellent long narrative poem of Wang Gui and Li Xiangxiang was published in Liberation Daily. This long poem warmly praised the struggle deeds of the people in northern Shaanxi under the leadership of the * * * Production Party, and successfully shaped the moving image of King Gui and Li Xiangxiang. This long poem with strong local color is the first achievement of Mao Zedong's literary line in the field of poetry, a new stage in the development of China's new poetry, and occupies an important position in the history of modern literature in China. Mao Dun called it "an outstanding creation, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is an epic of national form". 1948, Li Ji returned to Yan' an as the editor of People's Daily Supplement. From 65438 to 0949, he joined the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Chinese Writers Association, and soon went to Wuhan to be the editor-in-chief of the Central South Federation of Literary and Art Workers and the editor-in-chief of Changjiang Literature and Art. During this period, there were seven short poems 17, and the long narrative poem "Chrysanthemum Stone". /kloc-in the winter of 0/952, he went to Yumen Oil Mine to live in depth, and served as the propaganda minister of the Party Committee of the Mine. He wrote a long narrative poem "Song of Life" and a short collection of poems "Copy of Yumen Poetry", "Copy of Yumen Poetry" and "Salute to Oil Workers".
1955 to 1957 served as deputy director of the creative Committee of Beijing Writers Association. During this period, he wrote and published Poetry of Xiyuan and Song of Construction. After 1959, he became the chairman of Lanzhou Branch of Writers' Association, and published a long narrative poem "Biography of Levin", which is large in scale, complicated in story and numerous in characters, and reflects a broader life than Wang Gui and Li Xiangxiang. With a high degree of generalization, the poet, through the life of the protagonist Levin, truly reflects the cruel, sharp and complicated struggle life of agrarian revolution, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, liberation war and socialist construction in various historical periods. He artistically combined folk songs with classical poems and drum words, and adopted the composition and syntax of China traditional rap literature, which made another step forward on the road of nationalization and popularization. 1958, the poet also wrote many title poems in line with the current situation, which were included in Wen Jie's poetry collections "The First Spring Thunder" and "We planted red flags everywhere". 1959 published a children's poem "Three Faces and One Boy", a collection of novels and essays "Traveler in Gobi", "Beloved Qaidam" and his ten-year short poetry collection "Unforgettable Spring". 196 1 year, he published Shi Hai, which is more than 20 short poems with international themes written during his visit to four countries in Europe and Asia. After 1962, he served as deputy editor-in-chief and editor-in-chief of People's Literature. 1963 published narrative poems to Kunlun, Song of Sword and Poetry of Oil (I and II). After the downfall of the Gang of Four, he served as the editor-in-chief of Poetry magazine and a member of the Committee of the Fifth China People's Political Consultative Conference, and published two long narrative poems with the same theme and rich flavor of oil workers' life, Oil Brothers and Red Volume. 1March 8, 980, the poet died. In addition, there is a biography "The Story of Mao Zedong's Youth" and a children's story poem "Dashiqiao in Naragawa". On the road of the development of new poetry, Li Ji was diligent in learning from folk songs and constantly exploring popular national forms, which made great contributions to the development of China's poetry.