The author of the Yellow River Cantata is Guang Weiran, and the composer is Xian Xinghai.
Guang Weiran, whose original name was Zhang Guangnian, was born in Guanghua County, Hubei Province (now Laohekou City), a member of the Communist Party of China, a modern poet and literary critic. During his 89 years of life, he experienced a period of wandering, excitement and prosperity. He kept writing throughout his life and kept a diary every day.
He started learning very early and took advantage of every opportunity to learn foreign languages ??and Chinese classical literature, such as "The Book of Songs", "Chu Ci", ancient literary theory, philology, etc. He also devoted himself to the study of drama and music, and read a large number of foreign works. Literary classics and works in the social sciences. He created poems such as "Yellow River Cantata", "Flowers of May" and "Qu Yuan".
In his later years when he suffered from various diseases, he cared about the creation of young writers and completed a heavy research on classical literature "Parallel Language Translation of Heart Diaolong".
Guang Weiran's achievements
Guang Weiran's works include essay collections "Realism Issues in Drama" (1957), "Literary Debates" (1958), and "Wind and Rain Literary Talks" (1982). Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Guang Weiran has published a collection of poems such as "May Flowers" (1960), which contains more than 30 of the author's representative works before and after liberation.
These include the long poem "Qu Yuan", the poetry group "Yellow River Cantata", "Sanmenxia Cantata" and other famous works. Works not included in the collection include the political lyric poems "The Grand Festival of the Revolutionary People" and "The Thrilling Year 1976", as well as the long narrative poem "Heroic Drilling Team", etc.
The lyrics of "Flowers of May", the poetry group "Yellow River Cantata", the essay collections "Wind and Rain Literary Talk", "Youth Literary Talk", "Selected Dramas of the Light", "Jianghai Diary", "Xiangyang Diary", "Literary Circle" "Chronicle of Rejuvenation", "Poems Before Light" and a collection of poems, thesis "Socialist Literature in the New Era is Making Great Strides", etc.
Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia - Guang Wei Ran