1936 when War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out, Guo Xiaochuan joined the eighth route army on his way to Yan' an, and worked in 120 division 359 brigade for publicity, education and confidential work. 194 1 At the beginning of the year, I went to Yan 'an Marxist-Leninist College and other units to study and work for four and a half years, mainly engaged in the study of Marxist-Leninist political theory and literary theory. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he returned to his hometown as the county magistrate, and participated in and led the anti-hegemony land reform movement. /kloc-in the summer of 0/948, he turned to the news front, and successively served as deputy editor-in-chief and head of People's Daily, and director of editorial department of Tianjin Daily. 1In May of 949, he went south with the army. After the liberation of Wuhan, he engaged in the Party's theory and propaganda work in Central South China, cooperated with Chen Xiaoyu and Zhang Tiefu, and wrote a lot of Thoughts under the pseudonym of "Ma Tieding", which had great influence among the masses. 1in the spring of 953, he was transferred to the Central Propaganda Department.
As a poet, Guo Xiaochuan's poems such as Young League Members on the Hutuo River, We Sing the Yellow River, Straw Shoes and Old Employees, written in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's early period, are immature and have traces of trial and error, but they express the poet's sincere feelings of loving revolutionary life. It also shows his artistic talent in capturing the moving scenes in the revolutionary struggle life. 1for more than ten years after 943, the poet devoted all his energy to the actual revolutionary work and hardly picked up a pen to write poetry. However, the arduous and rich revolutionary work practice and the party's theoretical propaganda work have brought the poet a high ideological and theoretical accomplishment, but they have laid a solid foundation for his future creation in life and thought. This decade is an important preparatory stage for the poet's creation.
1in the autumn of 955, Guo Xiaochuan was transferred from Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China to the position of Deputy Secretary of the Party Group, Secretary of the Secretariat and Secretary-General of the Chinese Writers Association, and the editorial board of Poetry magazine. Immediately after turning to the front of literature and art, the poet sang carols and battle songs for China's new socialist cause with a strong sense of revolutionary responsibility and fierce fighting passion. His first political lyric poem was dedicated to the National Youth Socialist Construction Activists' Conference, Into a Fierce Struggle. This poem sings the strong voice of our time with the majestic momentum that his previous poems did not have:
Citizens!
This is our great motherland.
Every second of it is extremely uneasy,
Every sand and stone on its land is jumping,
It's been calling you,
In the fierce struggle,
Fight!
This is life,
This is a rich life.
As a result, the poet's fiery poetry broke out. 1955 and 1956, with the general theme of "to young citizens", he wrote a series of poems, such as Marching into Difficulties, In the High Tide of Socialism, Shining, and The Fire of Youth, which entered an explosive period. When recalling the creation of this period, the poet said: "When I started writing again, it was because I took up a literary post ... the great voice of socialist construction and socialist revolution resounded through the sky. I can't help writing down lines of political sentences with the mobilization gesture of the propaganda drum, just like writing mobilization slogans on rural walls in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's time ... I am willing to make this pen full of enthusiasm for fighting and help our readers, first of all, young readers grow up the will of revolution. The poet achieved his goal. His political commentator's mind, entrepreneur's mind, soldiers' hatred of evil and the voice of shouting for new things make his poems like drums and horns inspiring and arouse enthusiastic response among young readers.
However, the poet was not intoxicated by success. He said: "the literature I yearn for is the literature of struggle ... but I understand more and more that it is not enough just to have this starting point." Literature is literature after all. There are many novel and unique things here. Its source is the ocean of people's lives, but it should be an extraordinary and shining crystal extracted from the ocean. " Guo Xiaochuan is a revolutionary soldier in politics and a poet who dares to explore and practice in art. From 1957 to 1959, he tried his best to overcome the shortcomings of more discussion than description in his own creation, and made fruitful explorations in the development of theme villages, the deepening of ideological content and the creation of artistic forms. Among his poems at this stage, the most striking ones are 1957' s three narrative poems, Praise for Snow White, Deep Valley, One and Eight, and 1959' s long narrative poems, General Trilogy, Narrative Poem Yan Ai and Lyric Poem Looking Up at the Starry Sky. These poems show that the poet is not satisfied with exciting readers with inspiring political language, but tries to explore the spiritual beauty of our great people and revolutionary fighters, extract that "extraordinary and radiant crystal" from people's lives, and express it through clever and strange ideas, which not only excites readers for a short time, but also causes long-term thinking. The exploration spirit and practice of the poet should be fully affirmed. However, in the late 1950s, when the left-leaning ideological trend was rampant, the poet was criticized for no reason. The unpublished Ode to Snow White, Deep Valley and Starry Sky, One and Eight, and Severe Love were all criticized as "unhealthy thoughts and feelings". History is the fairest. As time goes by, people will see more and more clearly that these poems are an important impetus not only to the poet's own creation, but also to the development of China's contemporary poetry.
In the 1960s, Guo Xiaochuan's poems were more mature in thought and art. From 1960 to 1962, China's socialist construction encountered serious difficulties. Under the leadership of the Party, the people are United and work hard to build and defend the motherland in the face of the complicated international environment. The poet tried his best to reflect this grim and prosperous era, and wrote Mansion Charm, Country Avenue, Sugarcane Forest-Green Yarn Account and Qiu Ge. 1962 10, the poet was transferred to People's Daily as a special correspondent until the Cultural Revolution began. For more than three years, I went out of Yangguan in the west, entered the sea in the east, drilled forests, stepped on deserts and traveled all over the country. The poet wrote many well-known poems based on his own observation and experience of the fiery struggle life of the people in China who fought in different posts, such as Three Singing Forests, Going Out to Yangguan in the West, Traveling to Kunlun and Traveling to Haruka. In the late 1950s, the poet talked about the writer's unique style. He said, "A writer must have a very noble mental state. He is always associated with life, observing and understanding everything with sharp eyes. However, he has his own unique views. The works of such writers must serve the people and be loyal to the principles of socialist realism; However, he has his own style and characteristics. Even if his work is not signed, you can roughly guess that it is his. " In 1960s, his creation reached this level and he became an excellent poet with a unique style. "At the same time, he is also a well-deserved person who can have the title of soldier and poet at the same time!"
During the ten years of turmoil, Guo Xiaochuan withstood the severe test of class struggle. Lin Biao and the Gang of Four besieged, framed and persecuted him many times, but he never gave in and fidgeted. When his voice was gripped tightly, he still held his pen and used integrity to express the beliefs and vows of revolutionary soldiers who were not afraid of power and violence:
As a soldier, you must never lay down your weapon, even for a minute;
If you want a revolution, you must never stop, even in the face of a knife.
-"Qiu Ge"
1976 After smashing the Gang of Four, he was extremely happy, but unfortunately he died unexpectedly.
Guo Xiaochuan is not a real soldier loyal to the proletarian revolutionary cause. Unfortunately, due to the long-term destruction of Lin Biao and the Gang of Four, this young poet died suddenly in 1976 10. As a poet and soldier, his tall image will rank among the outstanding poets and shine brilliantly in the history of contemporary literature in China!
His poems are full of passion, rich in imagination and profound in philosophy. In the form of poetry, it draws lessons from the advantages of ancient poetry and folk songs, and the language rhythm is clear and smooth.
Guo Xiaochuan, formerly known as Guo Enda and pen name Ma Tieding, has always claimed to be a country poet and a working people, so he is called an engineer poet.