1896 was born in wuzhen, Tongxiang county, Zhejiang province on July 4th. This land of plenty south of Taihu Lake is the most developed agricultural area in modern China. It is very close to modern Shanghai, and it is also a place where people gather. This has caused Mao Dun's open cultural mentality and delicate writing style to face the world bravely.
He lost his father when he was ten. 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 Communist Group, prepared for China, 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 collapse of the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, he went into exile in Shanghai and Japan from Wuhan, and began to write his first novels 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. During the leftist period, he wrote the classic novel Midnight, the short story Lin Jiabao, and the rural trilogy (Spring Silkworm, Autumn Harvest and Can Winter). 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 in two places. In the "unprecedented" sun and moon, I was criticized and pulled aside. After a little stability, I secretly wrote the sequel to Frost Leaves as Red as February Flowers and the memoir The Road I Walked. 198 1 passed away at the age of 85; On the eve of his death, Mr. Mao Dun donated his own 250,000 yuan to set up the Mao Dun Literature Prize, which had a great influence on the literary world in China.