( 1899- 1946)
China was a great patriot in modern times, a staunch democratic fighter, an early leader of China Democratic League, a close friend of China's * * * production party, a poet and a scholar of literature and history. 1899165438+1October 24th was born in a scholarly family in Xiaba River, Xishui County, Hubei Province. 13 years old, admitted to Tsinghua University, Beijing, systematically studied western natural science knowledge and social and political theory. At this time, his poetic talent began to appear, and he published poems and songs successively, and served as the editor-in-chief of Tsinghua Weekly and Xinhua Daily and the head of the school editorial department. 19 19 The outbreak of the May 4th Movement pushed Wen Yiduo to the trend of campus sports. He wrote poems and delivered speeches with passion. As a representative of Tsinghua students, he went to Shanghai to attend the inaugural meeting of the Student Union. From 65438 to 0922, he went to the United States to study, and successively studied at Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, University of Colorado in Kequan and new york Art Institute. When he specialized in fine arts and achieved excellent results, he showed great interest in literature, especially his passion for poetry, and published poetry criticism and the first book of poetry, Red Candle. From 65438 to 0925, Wen Yiduo served as the provost of Beijing Institute of Art after returning from studying abroad, and was engaged in the editing of Poetry, the supplement of Morning News. Later, he taught in Nanjing No.4 Middle School, Wuhan University and Qingdao University. 1928 65438+ 10 published his second collection of poems, Dead Water, which marked his progress and achievements in new poetry. /kloc-in the autumn of 0/932, he returned to his alma mater, Tsinghua University, and became a professor of China Literature Department, engaged in the study of China classical literature. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, three universities, Tsinghua, Peking University and Nankai University, moved to Hunan to form the National Changsha Temporary University, where he taught at Linda University. 1February, 938, Wen Yiduo participated in the "Hunan-Guizhou-Yunnan Tour Group" for college students, trekked 3,500 miles, collected views and created many landscape paintings depicting the magnificent mountains and rivers of the motherland. After Linda moved to Kunming, she was changed to Southwest Associated University, and Wen Yiduo was appointed as a professor.
Wen Yiduo, who grew up in the great intersection and collision between Chinese and western cultures in modern times, is a master who absorbs Chinese and western cultures and makes the past serve the present. He first became famous as a unique poet. Wen Yiduo's poems are few in number, but he is famous for his deep feelings and exquisite art. The outstanding features of his poems are that he has a very strong national consciousness and temperament, and shows a deep and enthusiastic patriotic spirit. From the true feelings of patriotism and love for the people, he shows his disgust for the dark reality, sympathy for the people's sufferings and longing for a better future. In the form of new poetry, Wen Yiduo is good at absorbing the advantages of western poetry syllables, but also pays attention to retaining the tradition of China's classical poetry, and puts forward a set of theories to create new metrical poetry, which holds that new poetry should have "the beauty of music (syllables), painting (rhetoric) and architecture (symmetrical sections and neat sentences)". His new metrical poetry theory and unique poetry creation have influenced many poets, formed a new metrical poetry school represented by him, and wrote an important page in the history of new poetry development. Wen Yiduo's achievements are not limited to the creation of new poetry and the popularization of new metrical poetry theory. His great creative achievements in the study of China's ancient literature and culture have aroused more intense and universal shock in the academic circles. It should be said that Wen Yiduo's important position in the history of modern academic thought in China largely depends on his pioneering contribution to the study of ancient literature and culture in China. Later, he went out of his study and joined the democratic movement. His great influence and appeal are also inseparable from his outstanding achievements in the creation of new poetry and the study of ancient literature.
In the late period of the Anti-Japanese War, the democratic movement in Kunming was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people under the leadership of the China * * * Production Party. 1944 Joined China Democratic League, was elected as the executive member of NLD Yunnan Branch, and actively participated in the "Southwest Cultural Research Association" organized by China Underground Party and NLD comrades to talk about academics, discuss current affairs and study struggle strategies; Under the influence and help of the Party and Comrade NLD, he carefully read Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong's works, and read revolutionary books and periodicals such as Xinhua Daily and The Masses, which made profound changes in his political thoughts. 1945 was elected as the executive member of the Central Committee of the NLD at the first national congress, and later served as the propaganda member of the Yunnan branch and the president of Democracy Weekly. 12. 1 1 After the tragedy, he consciously acted according to the requirements of the party and NLD organizations and stood firmly with patriotic students to protest the bloody crimes of the reactionaries.
From 65438 to 0946, The National SouthWest Associated University began to go north in batches, and he resolutely stayed in Kunming for work needs. Under the white terror, Li Gongpu was killed on July 1 1. Wen Yiduo was in a very dangerous situation at that time, but he ignored life and death. On July 15, he attended Mr. Gong Pu's memorial service without hesitation. After the memorial service, Wen Yiduo attended a press conference held by NLD in Democracy Weekly for the assassination of Li Gongpu. On my way home, I was killed by a Kuomintang spy. 1in August, 949, Comrade Mao Zedong said in the article Farewell to Si Tuleideng: "We China people have backbone. In the face of imperialism and its lackeys, Kuomintang reactionaries, many people who used to be liberals or individual Democrats stood up. Wen Yiduo was angry and angry with the Kuomintang pistol, but he would rather not give in ... showing the heroism of our nation. "
Wen Yiduo made friends with intellectuals and young people, mobilized them to fight together, correctly handled the relationship between the Party and NLD, and always acted in accordance with the requirements of the Party on matters of principle. He lived in harmony with party member, the producer of * * *, and forged a profound friendship. He and many revolutionary martyrs watered the cornerstone of the multi-party cooperation system led by the Chinese production party with blood. Wen Yiduo's road is arduous and tortuous, magnificent and brilliant. In pursuit of truth, he went through a painful test like many intellectuals of his time. Once he accepted the leadership of Marxism-Leninism and China * * * Production Party, he stood firmly with China * * * Production Party, stood on the side of the people and died for a peaceful and democratic new China.
His representative works "Red Candle" and "Dead Water" have a gloomy and beautiful artistic style, and their neat and harmonious artistic expression has a great influence. In addition, he has made in-depth research on Zhouyi, The Book of Songs, Zhuangzi and Songs of the South, including Myth and Poetry, Miscellaneous Comments on Tang Poems, Classical New Meaning, and Revision of Songs of the South. Later generations collected the Complete Works of Wen Yiduo (4 volumes).
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