His works include: Lyrics of Mayflower, Lyrics of Yellow River Chorus, Essays on Wind and Rain, Essays on Youth, Selected Plays of Guang Weiran, Diary of Jianghai, Diary of Xiangyang, Chronicle of Renaissance, Poems of Guang Weiran, Poems and the paper "Socialist Literature Strides Forward in the New Period"
/kloc-joined the China * * * production party in 0/929, but lost the party's organizational relationship due to the destruction of the northern Hubei organization. Since 1930s, he has been engaged in progressive drama and literary activities. 1936 published the lyrics "Flowers in May" in Wuhan, praising the anti-Japanese patriots and opposing traitorous surrender. The song sings, "Flowers bloom all over vilen in May. /Hua Gai Ren Ren Xue. /In order to save this dying nation,/they fought stubbornly against the Japanese. ..... "After Yan Shu's poem was set to music, it was widely sung in the anti-Japanese and national salvation activities with its deep grief and indignation. 1937 rejoined the China * * * production party. 1938, his Street Drama was published. 1939 65438+ 10, led the third team of anti-Japanese drama from Shanxi anti-Japanese guerrilla zone to Yan 'an. In March of the same year, after arriving in Yan 'an, he created a group poem "Ode to the Yellow River" praising the spirit of the Chinese nation in the Yellow River Chorus. Composed by people's musician Xian Xinghai, it was first staged in Yan 'an in April. Since then, it has been widely sung all over the country and warmly welcomed by the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians. This set of poems is magnificent and profound. It is a heroic poem of the Chinese nation against foreign aggression, and it is also a tragic picture of the reality of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression era. It reflects the unprecedented awakening of the people and shows strong national integrity and indomitable spirit of struggle. In art, the whole poem is well conceived and beautifully laid out. Taking the Yellow River as the symbol of the Chinese nation as the image of running has created a surging passion and made the whole poem show great strength. At the same time, due to the poet's reference to China's traditional poetic expression, the poetry group has a lively rhythm and concise language. After the poet 1939 went to Yan 'an, he created a larger group of poems, The Yellow River Cantata. The Yellow River Chorus * * has eight movements, namely: Yellow River boatman song, Yellow River ode, how the water of the Yellow River moves out of the sky, Yellow River counterpart song, Yellow River ballad, Yellow River resentment, defending the Yellow River roar, and Yellow River. The magnificent imagination and realistic pictures in the poem are intertwined, forming a magnificent historical picture, praising suffering and struggle, depicting the image of the Yellow River and reflecting the real scene of the heroic sons and daughters of the Chinese nation in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. Composed by Xian Xinghai, it became popular all over the country. Xian Xinghai praised it as "full of aesthetic feeling, realism, resentment and tragic feelings, which makes people who have never crossed the Yellow River and those who have been to the Yellow River feel the same way. The lyrics themselves have tried to describe the history of the Yellow River for thousands of years.
Guang William. J engaged in literary and artistic activities in Chongqing from 65438 to 0940, and wrote a long narrative poem Qu Yuan, which, in the form of white terror, twists and turns expressed the people's strong demand for persisting in the war of resistance, opposing surrender, division and retrogression. After the "Southern Anhui Incident", he was forced to leave Myanmar to join overseas Chinese cultural circles and overseas Chinese youth in anti-fascist cultural activities. He returned to Yunnan in 1942, and from March 1943 to September 1944, he wrote a long narrative poem "Song of the Assisi" based on popular folk songs, and at the same time wrote a long lyric poem "Green Irava Bottom".
1944, Guang William. J joined Li Gongpu and Wen Yiduo in the democratic movement and poetry reading activities in Yunnan. 1945 was persecuted by the Kuomintang government and left Kunming. The following year, he entered the Liberated Area of North China from Beiping, and successively presided over the teaching work in the Art College of North University and the College of Literature and Art of North China University. After the founding of New China, he was the editor-in-chief of Drama, Literary Newspaper and People's Literature. William. J Guang has been engaged in literary and artistic work in Beijing since the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Activities. He has successively served as the editor-in-chief of Movie Script, Wen Yi Newspaper and People's Literature, and has written a lot of literary criticism under his signature. These articles are rigorous in argumentation and free and easy in style, and dare to express their opinions in the face of major literary and artistic phenomena. They wrote articles on the anti-historicism tendency of historical dramas and divine dramas, realism and socialist realism in the inheritance of traditional operas, and actively explored the creation of new poems, which promoted the prosperity of China's new poetry creation with their own creative practice and theoretical research.
On February 30th, 1984 and 1984 gave a keynote speech entitled "Great strides in socialist literature" at the fourth general meeting of the Chinese Writers Association. He is the author of a collection of essays, Realism in Drama (1957), Literary Debate Collection (1958) and Talk about Wind and Rain (1982).
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Mayflower (1960) has been published, and more than 30 representative works of the author before and after liberation have been included, including Qu Yuan, The Yellow River Cantata, Sanmenxia Chorus and other famous works. Other works not included are the political lyric poem Grand Festival of the Revolutionary People, Soul-stirring 1976 and the long narrative poem Hero Drilling Team. Bright poetry is full of passion and majestic momentum, and is good at containing a difficult and sudden torrent of the times with gorgeous images.
Guang William. J used to be the secretary of the Secretariat of the Chinese Writers Association and the party secretary of the Chinese Writers Association. And was elected as the third and fifth NPC deputies. He is a member of The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CCCPC) Advisory Committee and vice chairman of Chinese Writers Association.
At the age of 88
[Edit this paragraph] Huang Zhu, the textbook of People's Education Press.
(Recite words)
Ah, friend!
With his heroism,
Vilen in Asia;
It shows the spirit of our nation:
Great and powerful!
Here,
We are heading for the Yellow River,
Sing our hymn.
(Lyrics)
I stood at the top of the mountain,
Looking at the rolling Yellow River,
Run southeast.
The waves are rough,
Set off a turbulent wave;
Turbid flow turns around,
Form a nine-song chain;
From the foot of Kunlun Mountain
Run to the yellow sea;
Put the central plains land
Split into two sides.
Ah! Yellow River!
You are the cradle of the Chinese nation!
Five thousand years of ancient culture,
Originated from you;
How many heroic stories,
Play by your side!
Ah! Yellow River!
You are great and strong,
Like a giant
Appears on the plains of Asia,
Use your heroic body
Build a barrier for our country.
Ah! Yellow River!
You're depressed,
Huge,
To the north and south banks
Stretch out a thousand iron arms.
The great spirit of our nation,
Will be cultivated by you
Carry forward and grow!
Heroes and sons and daughters of our motherland,
Will follow your example,
As great and strong as you!
As great and strong as you!
1939
Throughout the ages, the Yellow River, with its majestic momentum, has flowed across the land of China and nurtured China people from generation to generation. To sing praises to the Yellow River is to sing praises to our great Chinese nation.
The Yellow River Cantata is a group of poems written by Zhang Guangnian, a famous poet, to cooperate with the large-scale national symphony created by musician Xian Xinghai. From 65438 to 0938, after the full-scale outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese invaders trampled on the land of North China. The whole country set off the climax of the anti-Japanese national salvation movement. It is the wish of many progressive literary and art workers to reflect the real struggle through their own artistic images and stimulate the people's enthusiasm for resisting Japan. Ode to the Yellow River is a hymn in genre, mainly composed of Ode to the Yellow River, and is closely related to the first chapter of the group poem Song of the Yellow River Boatman in structure. "The Yellow River Boatman Song" describes: "Dark clouds are gathering in the sky, and the stormy waves are lapping on the shore. The Yellow River boatmen fought in the wind and rain and finally reached the other side after hardships. " This symbolizes that our great nation and people have broken through the difficulties of the storm and finally won a brilliant victory. "So in the second chapter" Ode to the Yellow River ",the poet appeared as a singer of the times. Standing on the top of the mountain, he sang the Yellow River ode on behalf of the heroic sons and daughters of the motherland. He praised the Yellow River for its majestic and long history, and should follow its example and be as great and powerful as it.
The first section is recitation, and the second section is lyrics. At the beginning, the author called the readers "friends" in the way of coming at once, and clearly put forward the theme of "praising the Yellow River" at the beginning.
The second section is the main part of the whole poem. In order to express the momentum of ode, "tenor solo, with solemn and stirring singing, can hear the power of the Yellow River flowing in the accompaniment" (Xian Xinghai's How to Write the Yellow River). The lyrics in the second paragraph are clear-cut, and there are obvious keywords that can be used as the basis for combing ideas. The first is the word "looking at the Yellow River rolling", which has always led to "the Central Plains is divided into two". The content of this "hope" is both realistic and magnificent, with clear organization and strict rules: 1. Close-up-"surging waves,/set off huge waves"; Then there is the general writing method of overlooking the panorama-"Turbid flow turns around,/forming a zigzag chain"; Then it describes the flow direction of the Yellow River vertically-"from the foot of Kunlun Mountain/to the Yellow Sea"; Finally, it spread horizontally to both sides of the Yellow River basin-"splitting the Central Plains in two". Then he began to praise the great contribution of the Yellow River to the Chinese nation and entered the stage of "praising". "ah! Yellow River! " Over and over again, from "ah! Yellow River! /You are the cradle of the Chinese nation "to" You will nurture/develop "is divided into three levels, praising the Yellow River for nurturing the Chinese nation and pointing out its historical contribution; Defend the Chinese nation like a natural barrier and point out the geographical advantages of the Yellow River; Finally, from reality to nothingness, he praised the vastness of the Yellow River basin and benefited all beings, and issued an oath to learn from it on behalf of Chinese children.
Writing background
1969 A few years after the publication of the piano concerto "Yellow River", it is necessary to secondment the propaganda of Hong Zuohua of Jiefang Daily. From 65438 to 0972, Chen Yifei, who was only 25 years old, served as the head of the oil painting group in Shanghai Oil Painting Sculpture Workshop, and later participated in the design of Shanghai Yellow River Oil Painting Group with Xia Baoyuan, Zhang, Qin and Yan. The workshop is located on the third floor of Laoshenbao Building, No.309, hankou road.
The piano concerto is divided into four parts, and this group of paintings is also divided into four pieces. Yan painted the first movement "Yellow River Boatman Song", Chen Yifei painted the second movement "Ode to the Yellow River", and Xia Baoyuan painted the third movement "Yellow River Wrath"; Qin and Zhang painted the fourth movement "Defending the Yellow River", in which "Defending the Yellow River" was originally painted with Lin Biao, but later Lin Biao defected and needed to be redrawn.
Among the four works, Chen Yifei's Ode to the Yellow River is the most familiar to the outside world. Its first draft is gouache, besides a Red Army, there is also a farmer in sheep's clothing, but Chen Yifei thinks that standing alone on the mountain will make the picture more concise and powerful, so he has removed the role of farmer in the second draft. This practice caused controversy in the art circle at that time, arguing that this practice could not represent the masses and at least one militia should be added. In order to draw a picture according to his own ideas, Chen Yifei should greet the leaders for this purpose.
In order to draw soldiers with rifles, Chen Yifei also found a printed piece of Soviet oil painting, which shows Lenin inspecting the army and rows of soldiers with rifles. Chen Yifei spent the whole morning studying this vague print.
It was not until five years later that this work was exhibited for the first time in the art exhibition of the whole army held in 1977. Its appeal and painting skills have attracted the attention of the art world and established Chen Yifei's position in the history of China's fine arts.
In the1980s, Chen Yifei decided to go abroad. The night before boarding the plane, he suddenly decided to move some paintings, especially Ode to the Yellow River. Because Ode to the Yellow River is 297 cm long and 143.5 cm wide, Chen Yifei invited a group of little brothers to help lift it, but the painting was too big for two bicycles to lift in tandem. Unexpectedly, the canvas of Ode to the Yellow River cracked at the corner. It is said that Chen Yifei's younger brother, Chen Yiming, was responsible for the later restoration work.
1997 On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Chen Yifei wrote "Heroes and Romance" in Xinmin Evening News, saying: "Ode to the Yellow River was originally conceived to draw a shepherd with a headscarf on his stomach and his head behind his back, singing in the sky. On reflection, I found that this expression is almost an interpretation of The Yellow River Cantata's lyrics, so I resolutely gave up. Instead, he became a Red Army soldier, standing on the top of the mountain, smiling proudly at the mountains and rivers. In the process of creation, I restored the bright and fiery light on the top of the mountain to the canvas and rendered it into a dazzling white awn; In the eyes of the Red Army soldiers' rifles, I drew a small red cloth, which looked like a blooming flower. At his feet, I drew a line of geese flying diagonally south. "
1996, this painting was auctioned by Sotheby's in Hong Kong and sold for HK$1285,000, making it one of the most expensive oil paintings in China at that time. On May 13, 2007, the painting will be auctioned again at Guardian's auction, and Guardian's valuation is 20 million yuan.