After 1937, he moved to Wuhan, Shanxi, Guilin, Chongqing and other places to participate in anti-Japanese and national salvation activities. 194 1 went to Yan' an to attend the Yan' an forum on literature and art and edited Poetry Magazine. After 1949, he served as deputy editor-in-chief of People's Literature. 1957 was wrongly classified as a rightist and went to work in Heilongjiang and Xinjiang. He was criticized many times during the Cultural Revolution. 1976, 10 months later, he regained the right to write, served as the vice chairman of the Chinese Writers Association and the China Center of the International PEN, and was awarded the highest literary medal by France.
2. Ai Qing's masterpiece: Dayan River-My Nanny. This is an autobiographical lyric poem. In this poem, the poet described his nanny, Dayan River, with his childhood life as the background, and expressed his sincere nostalgia and enthusiastic praise for the nanny, Dayan River and the working people, as well as his hatred and curse for the old society. And the author's praise for the working people in China.