Born in 1927. 1939 began to write poetry. 1946 Work-study program at the Law School of Chung Cheng University and join the student movement. 1948 went into exile in Shanghai at the beginning of the year, and went to Hong Kong to participate in the work of the Propaganda Department of the National Federation of Students led by China * * * Production Party. After the liberation of Guangzhou, he joined the People's Liberation Army and marched southwest with the troops. His life experience in the southwest frontier inspired his creative inspiration. /kloc-joined the Chinese Writers Association in 0/954 and published the first book of poetry, Bianguan Short Song. During the period of 1955, People's Literature published three series of his poems expressing the life of frontier fortress soldiers: Wawashan Group Poems, Xishuangbanna Group Poems and Morning of Ximeng, which made him the first poet in southwest frontier fortress to be highly praised. At the same time, he participated in the collection and collation of the folk long poem Ashima (with Huang Tie, Yang Zhiyong and Liu Qi * * *); On the basis of folklore and ballads, he wrote a long poem "The Poem of the Wangfu". Since then, he has published Sacred Post (1955), City at Dawn (1956) and In the North (1957). He joined the General Political Department of the People's Liberation Army from 65438 to 0956, and was labeled as "Rightist" from 65438 to 0957. After 1978 returned to the poetry circle, his published poetry collections include Selected Poems of Gongliu, Selected Poems of Yin Lingzhi, Selected Poems of Hundred Flowers and Red Flowers, Boundless, Cactus, Mother River, Camel, Great Shanghai, South Boat and North Horse, etc. Gong Liu's poems have distinct personality characteristics. First of all, his poetic images are peculiar and imaginative. He is good at capturing the special details of life scenes, vivid and concrete. In his masterpiece Shanghai Night Song (1), he said: "Go to Guan. Bell tower. The hour hand and the minute hand,/like a huge pair of scissors,/go round and round,/break the day. //Hanging on the 24th floor at night,/like a curtain,/Shanghai immediately opened her treasure chest,/pearls are everywhere. //Valley of Lights, River Bed of Lights, Mountain of Lights,/Six million people wrote magnificent poems:/The streets are lines of poetry,/Lights are punctuation. " There are only twelve lines in the poem, and the poet accurately captures the concrete image with the characteristics of new Shanghai: at night, the towering bell towers, long streets and shuttling vehicles in Shanghai "shine everywhere", which three-dimensionally summarizes the moving scenery of Shanghai at night. Secondly, Gong Liu's poems are ingenious and full of philosophical meaning. He is good at starting from an extremely ordinary life scene, from reality to nothingness, from perceptual description to clear ideological and social significance. A typical example is "The Night of the First of May": "In front of Tiananmen Square, fireworks are like clouds, and there are a sea of people on the ground ...//Admire how good and lovely life is,/We worked hard just to enjoy this night". It is in line with the poetics and aesthetics of the times to sublimate real life into lofty spiritual beliefs through smooth brushstrokes.
Gong Liu's poems directly influenced the creation of many military poets at that time. After 1956, his poems are no longer pure blind praise, but affirm the new life and question the negative phenomena in life; He is no longer a strange cloud in the morning of Ximeng, but a "poplar" that can "knock out the clang of metal". Later, his poems became more and more cold and sharp.