Born in1892165438+10/6, formerly known as Guo Kaizhen, from Leshan, Sichuan. After studying in Japan in his early years, he accepted the ideas of Spinoza and Whitman and decided to abandon medicine and join the literature. Together with Cheng, Yu Dafu and others, he organized the "Creation Society" and actively engaged in the new literature movement. Goddess, the representative poetry collection in this period, got rid of the shackles of China's traditional poetry, fully embodied the spirit of the May 4th Movement and created a poetic style in the history of China literature. It is the best revolutionary romantic poem in contemporary times.
1923, systematically study Marxist theory and advocate proletarian literature.
1926 participated in the northern expedition and served as deputy director of the political department of the national revolutionary army.
1927 After Chiang Kai-shek cleared the Party, he participated in the Nanchang Uprising led by China.
1February, 928, wanted by the Kuomintang government, he went into exile in Japan, devoted himself to studying the ancient society of China, and wrote important academic works such as Studies on Ancient Society in China and Studies on Oracle Bone Inscriptions.
1937 After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he returned to China as the director of the Third Hall of the Political Department of the Central Military Commission, and later as the director of the Cultural Work Committee, uniting progressive cultural circles to engage in the anti-Japanese national salvation movement.
After 1946, it stood at the forefront of the democratic movement and became the revolutionary banner of the cultural circles in the Kuomintang-ruled areas. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), he was elected as the chairman of the All-China Federation of Literary and Art Circles. He was once the vice premier of the State Council and director of the Culture and Education Committee, the president of China Academy of Sciences, and the executive vice chairman of NPC, and was elected as the member of the 9th, 10th and 11th Central Committee of China.