From 65438 to 0938, he taught at Lu Xun Art College in Yan 'an, joined the China Producer Party in the same year, and did a lot of pioneering work for revolutionary literature and art. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as a member of the first, second and third CPPCC, a deputy to the third National People's Congress, a member of the All-China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, a member of the Secretariat of the Chinese Writers Association, a member of the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences of China Academy of Social Sciences, a director of the Institute of Literature Review. He is a poet who made great achievements in the great era and great changes in the middle of the 20th century.
He Qifang loved China's ancient poems and novels when he was a child. From 65438 to 0929, he went to Shanghai to study in China Preparatory School and read a lot of new poems. 1931-1935 studied in the philosophy department of Peking University.
He Qifang published poems and essays in magazines such as Modern during his college years. 1936 published Bian and Li Guangtian's poetry anthology Hanyuan Collection, 1937 published prose anthology Hua and won the literary gold medal in Ta Kung Pao. After graduating from college, He Qifang taught in Nankai Middle School in Tianjin and Laiyang Rural Normal School in Shandong.
After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, He Qifang returned to his hometown of Sichuan to teach, while continuing to write poems, essays and essays. 1938 North Yan 'an, taught at Lu Xun Art Institute, and later served as the head of Lu Yi Literature Department.
After the founding of New China, he mainly engaged in literary research and criticism, and participated in the leadership of the literary and art circles for a long time. He used to be a member of the Chinese Federation of Literary and Art Circles, secretary of the Secretariat of the Chinese Writers Association and director of the Literature Research Institute.
Poetry is the first style that He Qifang likes and uses. He claimed that when he first started writing, he "dreamed of something beautiful and gentle all day". His early works clearly showed the thoughts, feelings and personality of a young bourgeois intellectual. He is dissatisfied with the ugly reality and doesn't know where the way out is; He longs for the good things in life, but lacks enthusiastic pursuit. So more wandering in homesickness, longing and dreams, leaving only loneliness and melancholy.
He Qifang showed persistent pursuit for the perfection of art form. In terms of poetry, he paid great attention to complete form, rigorous rhythm and harmonious rhythm at the beginning of his creation, and paid attention to expressing the image and artistic conception of poetry. So his poems are obviously exquisite and gorgeous. In prose creation, he claimed that "my job is to find a new garden for lyric prose". He is good at combining the characteristics of poetry, writing rich and touching words, borrowing novel metaphors and allusions, and rendering magical colors and patterns, which makes his prose unique.
It was in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, especially after Yan 'an, that the change of ideological and artistic style was really obvious. At this time, he gradually left his dream and faced reality, and his poetic style tended to be simple and clear.
Collected Works of He Qifang (People's Literature Publishing House) is a six-volume book, which contains most of He Qifang's creations and works.