Cai Qijiao
Cai Qijiao, male, born on December 12, 1918, a famous Chinese poet and essayist, a native of Yuanban Village, Zimao Town, Jinjiang City, Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China Member of Writers Guild.
At the age of 8, he moved to Surabaya, Indonesia with his family. In 1929, he returned to China and completed junior high school at Quanzhou Mission School in Fujian. In 1934, he went to Shanghai to attend high school. While studying at the High School Affiliated to Jinan University in Shanghai, he participated in the student patriotic movement, actively participated in the Anti-Japanese War, a great national salvation movement, and began to write works reflecting the anti-Japanese struggle. From 1936 to 1938, the 20-year-old Cai Qijiao returned to China to fight against the enemy again. In 1938, he arrived in Yan'an and studied in the Literature Department of Lu Xun Art Institute. In 1939, he arrived in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border area with some teachers and students of the school and taught in the Literature Department of the North China Institute of Literature and Art. He began to publish poems in 1941, and the two poems "Hometown" and "Mourning" he wrote during this period won the first and second prizes for poetry in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region respectively. "Metal Fight", written in 1942, was published in 1953. It was read repeatedly by poetry readers and drama school candidates, and the poem became famous all over the world. In the same year, he wrote the lyrics of "The Soldiers' Song", which was selected as a widely sung military song. He wrote scripts and lyrics for the Anti-Enemy Drama Club of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, such as "Moon and Snow Night". In 1945, he became a reporter with the army. In addition to writing reports, he also wrote poetry. He is an outstanding representative of the romantic poetry school who came out of Yan'an. After 1948, he engaged in political and social research at home and abroad. In 1953, he went to Beijing to teach at the Central Training Institute, and later served as director of the teaching and research office of the institute, and joined the Chinese Writers Association.