Ba Jin (November 25, 1904 - October 17, 2005), whose original name was Li Yaotang, also had pen names such as Pei Gan, Ji Le, Hei Lang, Chun Feng, etc., with the courtesy name Fu Gan. Han nationality, a native of Chengdu, Sichuan, and his ancestral home is Jiaxing, Zhejiang. Chinese writer, translator, social activist, non-partisan patriotic democrat. Ba Jin was born in a feudal bureaucratic family in Chengdu, Sichuan in November 1904. After the May 4th Movement, Ba Jin was deeply influenced by the new trend of thought, and under the influence of this thought, he began his personal anti-feudal struggle. In 1923, Ba Jin left home to study in Shanghai, Nanjing and other places, whereupon he began his half-century-long literary creation career.
The "Random Thoughts" written by Ba Jin after the Cultural Revolution is simple in content, sincere in emotion, and full of the author's confession and introspection. Therefore, Ba Jin is hailed as "the conscience of Chinese literature in the twentieth century."
Character experience
Ba Jin was born on November 25, 1904 in Chengdu, Sichuan.
In 1920, he was admitted to Chengdu Foreign Languages ??School. While studying, under the influence of the "May 4th" trend of thought, he joined the progressive youth organization "Junshe".
In 1923, he left Chengdu to study in Shanghai and Nanjing.
In 1925, In August, he graduated from the High School Affiliated to Nanjing Southeast University and prepared to apply for Peking University. In September, he participated in the founding of the anarchist organization Shanghai People's Society and published some of Kropotkin's semi-monthly magazines.
In January 1927, he went to study in Paris, France. On the one hand, he read a lot of Western philosophy and literary works; on the other hand, he was always concerned about China and began to write "Destruction". p>
In December 1928, he returned to Shanghai and engaged in literary editing and creation.
In 1933, he served as an editorial board member of Literary Quarterly.
In 1934, he traveled to Japan. .
In August 1935, he returned to China and took charge of the editorial staff of Shanghai Cultural Life Publishing House, and edited "Cultural Life Series", "Literary Life Series", etc.
In 1937, when the Anti-Japanese War broke out, he served as an editorial board member of the "National Salvation Daily" and co-edited the magazine "Scream" (later renamed "Fenghuo") with Mao Dun.
In February 1938, Finished "Spring". In March, he joined the Literary and Art Association and was elected as a director. Starting from July 1940, he traveled to Kunming, Chongqing, Chengdu, Guilin, Guiyang and other places, engaged in anti-Japanese cultural propaganda activities. .
In May 1944, he married Xiao Shan in Huaxi, Guiyang.
In November 1945, he wrote "The Fourth Ward" in Chongqing.
< p>In July 1949, he participated in the first Literary Congress and was elected as a member of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles.After 1950, he served as editor-in-chief of Pingming Publishing House, vice-chairman of the Shanghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and Shanghai Branch of the Chinese Writers Association. Chairman.
In July 1950, he was elected vice president of the Shanghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles. In November, he attended the Second World Peace Conference in Warsaw.
< p>In July 1957, he was appointed editor-in-chief of "Harvest". In the same year, he began to compile 14 volumes of "Ba Jin's Collected Works", which were compiled and published in 1961.In August 1966, the Shanghai Branch of the Chinese Writers Association posted the publication. After posting a big-character poster attacking Ba Jin, Ba Jin was soon criticized and imprisoned in the "cow shed". In May 1967, the People's Daily published a signed article, and Ba Jin was later named and criticized in the "May 7th Cadre School" in Shanghai. Year and a half.
In 1972, his wife Xiao Shan died of illness.
In 1977, he served as the chairman of the Chinese Writers Association.
On April 2, 1982. Won the "Dante International Award" in 1982. This award was awarded to Ba Jin in recognition of his great achievements in the literary world.
In 1983, he served as Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Chairman of the Chinese Writers Association in 2003. In March, he was elected Vice Chairman of the 10th CPPCC National Committee at the first session of the 10th CPPCC National Committee.
In May 1984, as one of the world's seven cultural celebrities, he was invited to participate in the 47th International PEN Conference held in Tokyo, Japan.
After the mid-1980s, works such as "Illness Collection" and "Untitled Collection" of "Random Thoughts" were published.
After the 1990s, he published the collection of essays "Reflections", edited and published "The Complete Works of Ba Jin" (twenty-six volumes), etc.
In November 2003, the State Council of China awarded Ba Jin the title of "People's Writer".
Died in Shanghai on October 17, 2005, at the age of 101.
Character Influence
Ba Jin For half a century, Ba Jin has enthusiastically participated in the construction of modern Chinese culture with his own speech and artistic creation. Mainly reflected in: under the guidance of the idea that "the purpose of literature is to make people better", a series of artistic models with rebellious and servile personalities were created to "build people", from "telling the truth" to "telling the truth" "Real truth" has been consistent in all his life experiences and creative activities. He has emphasized many times, "I say that I write as if I are living. I also say that the highest state of my work is the unity of writing and life, and the unity of fellow writers. The main thing is means not to lie.
"At the same time, Ba Jin also contributed the realist aesthetic theory based on the typification method of "two consistencies" and the real character of "more like a living person"; pursuing truth, he confessed piously and painfully over and over again in "Random Thoughts", and analyzed With his own soul, he fiercely criticizes feudal ethics, digs deep into the servility in the souls of the Chinese people, and participates in the construction of modern ethical culture with the charm of his personality. The medium and long novels he provides with strong subjectivity and lyricism are in line with Mao Dun and others. Lao She's objective and realistic novels and novels together constituted the artistic peak of novels and novels in the second decade of modern literature. The "youth world" created by Ba Jin's novels was the most attractive in the art galleries of the 1930s. Ba Jin also made an irreplaceable contribution to expanding the influence of modern literature.