"Tianshan Pastoral" is widely praised because it shows the beautiful love and happy working life of the young people of the frontier ethnic minorities, and Wen Jie's poems are also known as "hymns of labor and love". Turfan Love Song and Guozigou Folk Songs are the two most famous love poems in Tianshan pastoral.
Wen Jie wrote sincere love with the help of the life scenes of ethnic minorities. There are many excellent poems in Wen Jie's love poems, such as Riverside and Pursuit. This was really rare at that time. Wen Jie's passionate love poems are quite different from those that described love vaguely and timidly before, but they are consistent with the spirit of the times in the 1950s.
Li Yang, a poet, said at that time that Wen Jie's love poems praised the love of liberated working people, the love closely combined with labor, the love subordinated to labor, the love with labor as the highest selection standard and the love with lofty moral principles. In other words, Wen Jie's love poems show new life content and flavor of the times in love life, and link love with the labor of creating a new life.
In artistic expression, most of these poems have simple characters and plots, and express their feelings through the description of life pictures. Wen Jie pays attention to the life phenomenon with strong emotional factors, and the plot of the poem is very simple, which makes his poems full of emotions. Of course, Wen Jie's poems are not only love poems, but also many other poems.
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In the late 1950s, with the intensification of political struggle, Wen Jie's poems became more stirring. The contents of the works published by the poet 1959 can be seen from their titles, such as We Plant Red Flags Everywhere, Flame of Revenge, Turbulent Years, Rebellious Grassland and so on. Because of these poems, Wen Jie is known as "the drum of the Great Leap Forward Movement".
At the same time, Wen Jie was gradually involved in the power struggle because of his personality. After the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, Wen Jie was one of the first targets to be purged, because he had bad blood with Zhang Chunqiao, the cultural czar of Shanghai.
1968, Wen Jie was sent to the "cowshed" for quarantine inspection. At that time, his wife had committed suicide by jumping off a building, two of his three daughters "voluntarily" went to the northeast to settle down, and the poet's manuscript "Journey to the Yangtze River" was confiscated and lost forever. And the most terrible fate has not yet arrived.
1in March, 968, Dai Houying, then the fourth leader of the Revolutionary Committee of Shanghai Branch of Writers' Association, was appointed as the head of the investigation team of Wenjie, and Wenjie was quarantined and examined on charges of anti-party and anti-state. However, as the investigation continued, Dai became more and more sympathetic to the convicted poet. Dai is fifteen years younger than Wen Jie. When he was young, he read Wen Jie's patriotic poems. She couldn't understand why such a poet would become a traitor.
Just then, Wen Jie's wife committed suicide, and his three daughters were driven out of the house. Dai was ordered to tell Wen Jie about it. 1968 is one of the most absurd moments in China's modern history. It is not surprising that Wen Jie and Dai Houying suffered misfortune. The two fell madly in love in such a bad environment.
1970, Dai hewen was sent to the cadre school. They are equal and know each other better. In the same year 10, the two had openly eaten, walked and had sex under the eyes of the "May 7th Warriors".
Wen Jie and Dai Houying completely underestimated the coercion of the party and government machine. The two applied for marriage and waited for approval according to regulations, but they were rudely rejected; At the same time, Dai Houying learned that he had been reassigned to Northeast Jilin for re-education. Faced with more and more rumors, ridicule and pressure, listening and appealing are doomed to be futile.
Zhang Chunqiao even publicly said that this was a "new trend of class struggle", and the workers' propaganda team forcibly separated the couple. Wen Jie finally realized the hopelessness and helplessness of this relationship, so he broke off relations with Dai Houying and embarked on the road that Dai had warned him not to go. 197 1 year 1 month 10, Wen Jie swallowed the poison gas for the rest of his life, which coincided with his love with Dai Houying for one hundred days.