Ai Qing
[Brief introduction]
(1910-1996) A modern Chinese poet. Formerly known as Jiang Haicheng, his pen names are Curcuma, Kea, etc. He was born in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province. He was born in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, and joined the Chinese Left-Wing Artists' Union in Shanghai in 1932. 1933, he first published a long poem, "The Dayan River - My Nanny", under the pen name of Ai Qing, which was a sensation in the poetry world for its sincerity and freshness of poetic style. Later on, he published the collections of poems "Dayan River" (1939), "Torch" (1941), "To the Sun" (1947), etc. The poems were written with eloquent strokes and strong feelings, and they expressed his feelings for the motherland and the people. After the liberation of China, Ai Qing's poetry collections included The Collection of Cheers and Spring, etc. After 1948, he published poems such as On the Tip of the Wave and Hymn of Light. He published Ai Qing's Selected Works and other works. He also wrote other works such as Essays on Poetry, Discourses on Poetry, and New Poetry.
[Detailed introduction]
Ai Qing, a famous modern literary figure and poet (1910-1996), formerly known as Jiang Haicheng (蒋海澄), a native of Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, was admitted to the National Hangzhou Xihu Academy of Fine Arts (國立杭州西湖艺术院) after graduating from high school in 1928.Encouraged to go to Paris to study hard in 1929 by Principal Lin Fengmian (林風眠), Ai Qing came into contact with modernist poetry in Europe while he was learning to draw and paint. He was most influenced by the Belgian poet Verhallen, who wrote his first poem "Rendezvous" in 1932, which was published under the pseudonym "Curja" in the combined issue of Beidou, Vol. 2, No. 3 and No. 4, published in July of the same year.
Returning to Shanghai in May 1932, he joined the League of Chinese Left-Wing Artists and organized the Chundi Painting Society, and in July, he was arrested and imprisoned, where he translated the poems of Verhallen and wrote the famous "Dayan River - My Nanny". He went on to write "The Reed Flute" and "Paris".
In October 1935, he was released from prison on bail. 1937, after the outbreak of the war, he went to Wuhan, where he wrote Snow Falls on Chinese Soil. 1938, he went to the Northwest China, where he composed famous poems such as The North. In the same year, he went to Guilin, served as deputy editor of Guangxi Daily, and co-organized the poetry magazine Vertex with Dai Wangshu, and the more important works during this period included Poetry Theory.
In 1940, he went to Chongqing to be the head of the literature department of Yucai School, and soon went to Yan'an to work in the Shanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region Cultural Association. In 1944, he was awarded the certificate of exemplary worker, and was added to the Chinese ****production party.
October 1945 with the North China Literature and Art Work Group to Zhangjiakou, later served as the North China Union University College of Literature and Art leadership, wrote "cuckoo" and other poems.
In 1957, he was wrongly classified as a rightist, and in 1958 he went to work in Heilongjiang Nongken Farm, and in 1959 he was transferred to Shihezi Reclamation Area in Xinjiang, China. 1979, after the complete reversal of the situation, he wrote a large number of poems, such as "The Song of the Return" and "Hymn to the Light".
From the poetic style, before the liberation, Ai Qing cursed the darkness and eulogized the light with deep, vigorous and unrestrained strokes; after the founding of the country, Ai Qing sang the praises of the people, saluted the light, and contemplated the life as he always did. His "return" song, the content is more extensive, the idea is more thick, the emotion is more deep, the technique is more diverse, the art is more mature. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Ai Qing published the following collections of poems: The Collection of Cheers, The Red Star of the Jewel, On the Cape, Spring, Songs of Return, Colorful Poems, The Collection of Extraterritoriality, The Snow Lotus, and Ai Qing Poetry Selected. Ai Qing has become an outstanding artist with his artistic personality, practicing his poetic aesthetics of "simplicity, simplicity, concentration, and clarity".
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Ai Qing's Biography
Ai Qing, formerly known as Jiang Haicheng, was known by his pen names of Curca, Kea, and Lin Bi, etc. He was born in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, in 1928. Ai Qing was a native of Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, who studied at the West Lake Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou in 1928, and then studied in France the following year; in 1932, he joined the League of Chinese Left-Wing Artists. In 1932, he joined the Chinese Leftist Artists Union and was arrested soon after. He began to write poems in prison and became famous for his poem "The River of Weir - My Nanny".
After 1937, he participated in anti-Japanese activities in Wuhan, Shanxi, Guilin, Chongqing, etc. In 1941, he went to Yan'an, participated in the Yan'an Literature and Art Symposium, and edited Poetry Magazine, and after 1949, he became deputy editor of People's Literature, etc. He was wrongly categorized as a rightist in 1957, and was sent to work in Heilongjiang, Xinjiang, etc. He was repeatedly criticized during the Cultural Revolution. He was repeatedly criticized during the Cultural Revolution and regained the right to write in October 1976, when he became vice-chairman of the Chinese Writers' Association and vice-president of the International PEN China Center, and was awarded the Highest Medal of Literature and Art by France.
The author of the poem integrates his personal sorrows and joys into the suffering and destiny of the nation and the people, and expresses his passionate yearning and pursuit of light, with a strong sense of the times and realism, sincere feelings, and a unique style, and is an important poet who promotes a generation of poetic styles after Guo Moruo, Wen Yiduo, and so on.
He is the author of the poetry collections "Dayan River", "The North", "To the Sun", "Songs of Return", etc., and the collections of essays "Poetry Theory", "Ai Qing on Poetry", etc. He is also the author of the book "The Poetry of Ai Qing".
Dayan River--My Nanny (poems) 1936, Shanghai Mass Magazine Company
North (poems) 1939 (printed at his own expense); 1942, Wen Sheng
He Died the Second Time (poems) 1939, Shanghai Miscellaneous
Toward the Sun (long poems) 1940, Haiyan
Wilderness (poems) 1940, Life
Poetry Theory (theory) 1941, Guilin Santo Publishing House
Anti-fascism (poems) 1943, Hua Bei Bookstore; 1946, Readings
Wu Man Yau (long poems) 1943, Xinhua Bookstore; 1946, Writers' Bookstore <
Notice of Dawn (poems) 1943, Cultural Supply Society
Wish Spring Come Early (poems) 1944, Guilin Poetry and Art Publishing House
Drilling in the Snow (poems) t944, Xinqun
Poems Dedicated to the Countryside (poems) 1945, Beimen
Explaining the Literature of the New Democracy (theories) 1947, Ocean Books, Hong Kong
Toward Victory (Poems) 1950, Cultural Work Society
New Literature and Art Theory 1950, Qunyi
Collections of Cheer (Poems) 1950, Xinhua Bookstore, Beijing; 1952, Humanities
Selected Poems of Ai Qing 1951, Kaiming
New Poetry Theory 1952 (poetry collection) 1953, Humanities
Ai Qing's Selected Poems 1955, Humanities
The Black Eel (long poems) 1955, Writers
Spring (poems) 1956, Humanities
On the Headland (poems) 1957, Writers
The Story of Su Changfu (Reported Literature) Signed Nayong, 1960, Xinjiang People
The Song of Return (Collected Poems) 198O, Sichuan People
Elected Narrative Poems of Ai Yu 198O, Guangdong People, 1984, Huacheng
Sea Lovers' Flowers (Collected Prose) 1980, Sichuan People
Selected Poems of Ai Qing 1980, Hong Kong Literature Research Society
Colorful Poems (Poetry Collection) 198O, Jiangsu People
One Hundred Selected Lyric Poems 1980, Hong Kong Times Book Company
Selected Poems of Ai Qing 1982, Foreign Languages
Talks of Ai Qing on Poetry (Theory) 1982, Huacheng
Falling Time Collection (Poetry Collection) 1982, Zhejiang People
The Selected Lyric Poems of Ai Qing" 1983, Wenlian
"Snow Lotus" (Poetry Collection) 1983, Heilongjiang People
"Extraterritorial Collection" (Poetry Collection) 1983, Huashan
"Ai Qing" (Comprehensive Collection) 1983, Humanities
Selected Short Poems of Ai Qing 1984, Huacheng
"Notes on the Oasis" (Prose Collection) 1984. Sichuan People
Enlightened Star (Poems) 1984, Hundred Flowers
Ai Qing on Creative Writing 1985, Shanghai Literature and Art
Elected Works of Ai Qing (Volumes 1--3) 1986, Sichuan Literature and Art