His father died when he was ten years old. The "first teachers" of many writers and politicians in China are widowed mothers, and Mao Dun was raised by her mother. After finishing the preparatory course at Peking University, he was unable to continue his studies, worked in Shanghai Commercial Press, reformed the old-fashioned novel monthly, and became the chief critic of the Literature Research Association. At this time. Participated in the Shanghai * * * production team, organized the China * * * production party, went to Guangzhou to attend the second Kuomintang Congress, and served as the Minister of Propaganda Department of the Kuomintang Central Committee. The Acting Minister of Propaganda Department is Mao Zedong. After the cooperation between the two countries broke down, he went into exile in Shanghai and Japan from Wuhan, and began to write his first trilogy Eclipse (disillusionment, vacillation and pursuit) and Rainbow, so he picked up a novelist's pen. This experience of upper-level political struggle has created his summary of the times and the whole social vision of literature, and the theme of his early works is also taken from this. He wrote the novel jathyapple, the short story Lin Jiabao and the rural trilogy (Spring Silkworm, Autumn Harvest and Candong) during the period of the Left-wing League. During the Anti-Japanese War, he traveled to Hong Kong, Xinjiang, Yan 'an, Chongqing, Guilin and other places, and published novels such as Corrosion, Frosty Leaves as Red as February Flowers, Exercise and Before and After Tomb-Sweeping Day. The literary and art circles celebrated his fiftieth birthday, and his reputation grew bigger and bigger. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), he served as vice chairman of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles, minister of culture, chairman of writers' association and vice chairman of China People's Political Consultative Conference. It is difficult for him to create it at once. During the "Cultural Revolution", I was criticized and excluded. After a little stability, I secretly wrote the sequel to Frost Leaves as Red as February Flowers and the memoir The Road I Walked. Mao Dun died on March 27th, 198 1. [Edit this paragraph] Mao Dun pen name