Guo Moruo (1892 ~ 1978) is a contemporary poet, playwright, historian and ancient philologist. Formerly known as Guo Kaizhen, his pen names are Guo and Macon. People from Leshan, Sichuan.
During his primary and secondary school years, Guo Moruo extensively read Chinese and foreign literary works and participated in the anti-imperialist patriotic movement.
19 14 studied medicine in Japan at the beginning, and came into contact with the works of Tagore, Heine, Goethe, Spinoza and others, tending to pantheism. Influenced by the May 4th Movement, Guo Moruo engaged in literary activities with the enthusiasm of transforming society and rejuvenating the nation, and began to publish new poems and novels in 19 19. 1920, the collection of letters by Tian Han and Zong Baihua was published. Goddess, a collection of poems published by 192 1, created a poetic style of "one generation" with strong revolutionary spirit, distinctive color of the times, romantic artistic style and bold free verse. In the summer of the same year, he started the creation society with Cheng, Yu Dafu. 1923 After graduating from university, he abandoned medicine and went back to Shanghai to edit publications such as Creation Weekly. From 65438 to 0924, I got a systematic understanding of Marxism by translating Kawakami's book Social Organization and Social Revolution. 1926 served as the liberal arts senior of Guangdong University (later renamed Sun Yat-sen University). In July, he joined the army to participate in the Northern Expedition, and then participated in the Nanchang Uprising. At the beginning of 1929, he participated in advocating the proletarian revolutionary literature movement. During this period, he wrote novels such as "Wandering Trilogy" and essays such as "Six Chapters", which were full of subjective and lyrical personality. He has also published poems such as Starry Sky, Bottle, Thousand Cats and Restoration, and written works such as historical dramas, historical novels and literary papers. Since 1928, Guo Moruo has lived in exile in Japan for 10 years. During this period, he studied China's ancient history and ancient philology from the perspective of historical materialism, and wrote books such as China's Ancient Society Research and Oracle Bone Inscriptions Research, which made outstanding achievements and opened up a new world of historical research. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Guo Moruo left his wife and sneaked back to the motherland to prepare the Wang Jiu Daily, and served as the director of the Third Hall of the Political Department of the Military Commission of the National Government and the director of the Cultural Work Committee, responsible for the cultural propaganda of the Anti-Japanese War. In the meantime, he created six historical dramas, such as Flowers of Tang Di and Qu Yuan, which fully showed the romantic features, which was another great achievement of his creation. These dramas use the past as a metaphor for the present, closely matching the real struggle. 1944 wrote "Three Centennial Festival of Shen Jia", which summarized the historical experience and lessons of Li Zicheng peasant uprising. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he persisted in opposing dictatorship and civil war under the condition that his life was constantly threatened. The struggle for democracy and freedom.
After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), Guo Moruo successively served as Vice Premier of the State Council, President of China Academy of Sciences, President of China University of Science and Technology, Director of Philosophy and Social Sciences Department of China Academy of Sciences, and Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC), mainly engaged in political and social activities and leadership of cultural organizations, as well as world peace, foreign friendship and exchanges. At the same time, he continued his literary and artistic creation, including historical drama Cai Wenji and Wu Zetian, poetry anthology Ode to Xinhua, Hundred Flowers Blossom, Camel Collection, notes on literary papers, Li Bai and Du Fu, etc. Guo Moruo wrote poems, essays, novels, historical plays, biographies, reviews and many other works all his life, and made great contributions to China's scientific and cultural undertakings in many aspects. He is another glorious banner on the cultural front of China after Lu Xun. The collection of works is 17-volume Collected Works of Mo Ruo (1957 ~ 1963). The newly compiled Complete Works of Guo Moruo is divided into three parts: literature (20 volumes), history and archaeology, and has been published since 1982. Many works have been translated into Japanese, Russian, English, German, Italian, French and other languages.