Cai Qijiao, a native of Yuanban Village, Jinjiang County, Fujian Province, was born in February of 19 18 12. He lived with his family in Surabaya, Indonesia when he was 8 years old. 1929 returned to China and finished junior high school at Quanzhou Christian School in Fujian. 1934 to Shanghai. When I was studying in the middle school affiliated to Jinan University, I took part in the patriotic movement of students, actively participated in the great national salvation movement in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, and began to create works reflecting the anti-Japanese struggle. From 1936 to 1938, 20-year-old Cai Qijiao returned to China to fight against the enemy again. From 65438 to 0938, he arrived in Yan 'an and studied in the Literature Department of Lu Xun Art College. 1939 arrived in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region with some teachers and students of the school, and taught in the Literature Department of North China College of Literature and Art. 194 1 began to publish poems, during which two poems, Hometown and Regret for the Past, won the first prize and the second prize in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region respectively. Hand-to-hand combat, written in 1942 and published in 1953, was repeatedly read by poetry readers and candidates in drama colleges, and became famous for this poem. In the same year, the lyrics "Song of Soldiers" were selected as widely sung military songs. He once wrote scripts and lyrics in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region Anti-enemy Drama Club, such as Night in the Snow. 1945, an army reporter, writes poems and reports. He is an outstanding representative of the Romantic Poetry School who came out of Yan 'an. 1948, engaged in political and social research at home and abroad. From 65438 to 0953, he taught in Beijing Central Literature Workshop, and later served as the director of the teaching research office of the Institute, and joined the Chinese Writers Association.
In 1950s, Cai Qijiao voluntarily gave up his official career and continued to be a poet. In the Great Leap Forward era, when people were scrambling to write carols, Cai Qijiao found a new way and wrote masterpieces such as Hanshui in the Fog and Chuanjiang Song, which faced the historical pain and hardships of life. During the period from 1956 to 1957, many poems were published, which were included in Echo Collection and Echo Sequel (both in 6544)
In the 1960s, ultra-left thoughts prevailed, but Cai Qijiao "hated power" in his poems. Subsequently, he was "marginalized" many times, even exiled and thrown into prison. After 1962, he engaged in the study of free verse, folk song style and classical poetry. During this period, his poems were rare. After the downfall of the Gang of Four, he regained his creative vitality and became the pioneer of China's poetry in the new period. The collection of poems "Prayer" was written by him in 1970s and 1980s. Its positive attitude towards life, concern for reality and unremitting pursuit of art can still be seen here. From 65438 to 0959, he returned to Fujian as a professional writer and compiled his poems written in the past 20 years into three collections of poems: Feng Ji, Shuang Hong Ji and Fujian Ji. There are 65,438+05 kinds, such as Shui Ying Ji, Zuishi, Selected Works of Cai Qijiao (People's Literature Publishing House) and Cai Qijiao Poetry Gallery (Straits Literature Publishing House).