A Brief Introduction to the Author of Yi Shi Hai Bei

Qin Mu (1919-1992), formerly known as Lin juefu, was born in Chenghai county, Guangdong province. At the age of 3, he moved to Singapore with his parents, where he received primary education, and was also influenced by the patriotism of overseas Chinese predecessors. /kloc-returned to China at the age of 0/3, and studied in Chenghai, Shantou and Hong Kong successively. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he returned to the mainland to participate in the national salvation movement and participated in the democratic revolutionary struggle in the late period of the Anti-Japanese War. Since the early 1940s, he has been engaged in various literary creations: novels, plays, children's literature, poems, literary theories and even popular science works. The novel Ocean of Anger and the novella Gold Coast have far-reaching influence at home and abroad. Children's literature "The Complete Works of Qin Mu Children's Literature" won the special prize of the 7th Bingxin Children's Book Award. More than one million copies of literary theories such as "Picking up Shells from the Sea" and "Taking English from the Forest" have been printed and published. There are more than 60 works about Qin Mu's life. Qin Mu's prose published before liberation was his first book. After liberation, he worked in Guangdong for a long time. He used to be vice chairman of Guangdong Branch of Chinese Writers Association, deputy editor-in-chief of Yangcheng Evening News, deputy to the Seventh National People's Congress, representative to the 12th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, director of Chinese Writers Association and executive chairman of Guangdong Federation of Literary and Art Circles. His prose works have been published successively, including Shell Collection, Collection under the Star, Flower City, Tide and Ship, Long Street Lamp, Manna and Bee Sting, Sunny Morning Zhuo, Lin Qiu, Emerald Road, Visiting the Dragon's Hometown, Dragon on Earth, Collection on Both Sides of the Ocean, etc. 1994, the people's literature publishing house published ten volumes of the complete works of Qin Mu, of which 6 1 were collected works, of which 6 or 7 were essays. 1997, Writers Publishing House published four volumes of Qin Mu's Prose Essentials, which were compiled from more than 380 essays selected from 8900 essays he wrote over the years. Qin Mu always believed that writers should have a sense of mission and their works should be thoughtful. At the same time, he has always insisted on the arduous pursuit of art, strongly opposed the simplification of ideas and the patterning of art, and advocated originality and "unique creation on the basis of extensive learning." He advocates expanding the scope of subject matter, developing the functions of literature in education, image appreciation, aesthetics, entertainment and other aspects, so that the works are higher than humor and interest, and "the idle interesting talk contains the idea of productism".