Creative background: Zong Pu, a writer, started writing novels in college. After 1950, she felt that the scope of literature was getting narrower and narrower, and she could only write about workers and peasants, with a pattern. She thinks it's better not to write something formulaic.

1956 after putting forward the policy of "letting a hundred flowers blossom", she felt that she could write according to her own wishes. Therefore, combining her own experiences and feelings, she created novels with her familiar intellectuals and campus life as the theme, showing the inner struggle of intellectuals at the crossroads of great changes in the times. At the end of that year, she finished the novel Red Bean.

After the red beans were sent to the editorial department of People's Literature, the editors passed the novel without objection, and published it as a creative embodiment of the policy of "letting a hundred flowers blossom" in the July issue of People's Literature, "Innovative Extra Large" 1957.

Extended data:

Brief introduction of red beans

Red beans is a short story by Zong Pu, which was first published in People's Literature No.7 in 1957. In flashback, the novel tells the love tragedy between Jiang Mei, a college student, and Qi Hong, a lover, on the eve of Beijing's liberation because of their different attitudes towards life and political positions, thus showing the arduous and tortuous spiritual course of a generation of young intellectuals in the face of great changes in the times. The whole article is full of warm and romantic sentiment and rich and implicit human feelings, showing a beautiful style as a whole.

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