Ai Qing
Ai Qing
Ai Qing (March 27, 1910 to May 5, 1996), formerly known as Jiang Zhenghan, was named Yangyuan and Haicheng. He once used pseudonyms such as e'jia, ke'a and Lin Bi. Born in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, he is a modern and contemporary writer, poet and painter.
After graduating from middle school in 1928, he was admitted to the national Hangzhou West Lake Art Institute. In 1933, he first published the long poem Dayanhe my nanny under a pseudonym. In 1932, he joined the Chinese left wing artists League in Shanghai and engaged in revolutionary literary activities. In 1935, the first collection of poems, Dayanhe, was published. In 1957, he was wrongly classified as a rightist. He once lived and worked in Heilongjiang and Xinjiang, and his creation was interrupted for more than 20 years. After the rehabilitation in 1979, he served as vice president of the Chinese Writers Association and vice president of the International PEN Center. In 1985, he won the highest medal of French literature and art.
He died of illness at 4:15 a.m. on May 5, 1996 at the age of 86. Ai Qing is regarded as one of the representative poets of modern Chinese poetry. The main works are Dayan river my nanny and selected poems of Ai Qing.
Life of the characters
Born in 1910 in a feudal family in Jiang Village, Fantian, Jindong District, Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province. He was raised by a poor peasant woman until he was five years old.
In 1917, he studied in primary school attached to Jinshi.
After graduating from middle school in 1928, he was admitted to the national Hangzhou West Lake Art Institute.
In 1928, under the encouragement of President Lin Fengmian, he went to Paris to work and study, study painting and get in touch with European modernist poetry.
At the beginning of 1932, he returned to China and joined the Chinese left wing artists' Union in Shanghai to engage in revolutionary literature and art activities. Soon he was arrested and wrote many poems in prison. One of them, Dayan River - my nanny, caused a sensation and became famous at one stroke after its publication.
In 1933, he first published a long poem "Dayanhe my nanny" under the pseudonym of Ai Qing. Later, poetry anthologies such as north wind, Dayanhe, torch, notice of dawn, cheers, red star of gemstone and spring were published one after another. The poetry collections after liberation include cheers and hymns of light.
He was released from prison in 1935 and published his first poetry collection Dayanhe the following year. After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese War, he served as the editorial board member of the literary front and the director of the literature department of Yucai School.
In 1941, he went to Yan'an as the chief editor of Shi Kan. During the war of resistance against Japan, he deeply influenced the spirit of the times and absorbed the poetic sentiment. During the war of resistance against Japan, he became the climax of his creation, and published nine poetry collections, including North, to the sun, wilderness, torch, notice of dawn, and drill in the snow.
After 1948, he published more than 200 poems, such as "on the crest of the waves", "hymn of light" and "arena of ancient Rome". Published "selected works of Ai Qing" and so on. In addition, there are anthologies such as on poetry, on poetry and on new poetry.
In 1957, he was wrongly classified as a rightist. He once lived and worked in Heilongjiang and Xinjiang, and his creation was interrupted for more than 20 years. It was not until 1976 that he began to write again, and another climax of his writing appeared.
After the rehabilitation in 1979, he served as vice president of the Chinese Writers Association and vice president of the International PEN Center, and visited many countries in Europe, the United States and Asia. He has created poetry anthologies such as colorful poetry and overseas poetry anthologies, published selected narrative poems of Ai Qing, selected Lyric Poems of Ai Qing, and various versions of selected poems of Ai Qing and complete works of Ai Qing. Song of return and snow lotus won the national excellent new poetry award of China Writers Association.
In 1985, he won the highest medal of French literature and art.
He died of illness at 4:15 a.m. on May 5, 1996 at the age of 86.
Personal life
Zhang Zhuru and Zhang Zhuru
In 1935, Ai Qing, 25, obeyed her parents' orders and married Zhang Zhuru.
With Zhang Yueqin
In 1936, Ai Qing worked as a Chinese teacher in Wujin women's normal school in Changzhou. She met and fell in love with the female student Wei Yi (her real name is Zhang Yueqin), AI Xuan's mother. In 1939, Ai Qing, 29, married Wei GA, 18, and gave birth to his daughter AI Qingming and son AI Duanwu. AI Xuan was born in xiaolizhuang, Shenxian County, Hebei Province in 1947.
In 1955, Ai Qing divorced Wei He. AI Xuan, his elder sister AI Qingming and elder brother AI Duanwu were awarded to his father, while his younger sister AI Meimei was raised by his mother.
With Gao Ying
In 1955, Ai Qing met Gao Ying, who had just been transferred to the Chinese Writers Association. On March 27, 1956, Ai Qing married Gao Ying.
March 27, 1956, is not only Ai Qing's birthday, but also the day when he married Gao Ying. Although Ai Qing had been criticized in the literary and art circles before, Gao Ying, who deeply loved Ai Qing, decided to announce their marriage.
Main works
Creative features
Ai Qing's works generally describe the sun, torch, dawn and other symbolic things, showing Ai Qing's hatred of the darkness and terror of the old society and his yearning and pursuit of dawn, light and hope. Starting from the love for the rural working people and the requirement of approaching them, Ai Qing has been presenting his most sincere poetry to them for more than ten years.
Ai Qing's poetry inherits the fine tradition of the May 4th new literature with its close combination with reality and full of fighting spirit, and becomes an important harvest of the development of new poetry with its exquisite and innovative artistic style. This not only reflects the author's artistic talent, but also remembers his serious and arduous artistic practice. In his poems, full of enterprising spirit and rich life experience bring bright future. Ai Qing's poetry has a vivid and profound image. With the end of the poem, the image will be completed. Image, not only refers to people, but also includes the visualization of things and thoughts.
Ai Qing's poems don't stick to the bondage of appearance in form, and pay little attention to the uniformity of rhyme and the number of words and lines, but they also use regular parallelism and repetition to create a unity in change.
Character evaluation
Ai Qing demands himself as "the greatest singer". Writing has become his life style no matter in the war years or in the life after liberation. He said: "I always want to create. Every day I wake up like a farmer before dawn. As soon as I wake up, I think about the characters in my poems and the language I should use, and how to make progress in my works Even when I eat, even when I walk. " A poet always yearns for writing and insists on writing, which deeply touches my younger generation as a writer, and also shows us a writer's undying love for literature. (comments by Tie Ning)
The great war of resistance against Japan opened up a new era for poetry creation, and Ai Qing expanded his political vision and spiritual world. His long poems "to the sun" and "Torch" showed the inspiring spirit and heroic spirit of the Chinese nation with great momentum. (comments by Zhang Tongwu)
Ai Qing's discussion on the aesthetic standards of the content and form of modern poetry greatly promoted the standardization and modernization of Chinese new poetry. (online review of Chinese Writers)
Ai Qing stepped into the poetic world in the early 1930s, and the deep and melancholy lyric style of his works has been widely noticed. After the outbreak of the Anti Japanese War, Ai Qing has actually become one of the most representative poets. From the late 1930s to the mid-1940s, it can be called "Ai Qing's era". His creation not only opened up a generation of poetic style, but also profoundly influenced the poetic world of this period and even the late 1940s. (China online review)
People's Memorial
Cultural Park
Aiqing Cultural Park is located on the South Bank of Yiwu River, Jindong District, Jinhua City, on the north side of the administrative center and commercial and cultural center of Jindong District, adjacent to Kangji street in the East and Binhong road in the West.
The park covers an area of 130000 square meters, with a total length of 1600 meters. It is a part of the three rivers and six banks green belt of Jinhua urban green space system. The theme sculpture "hymn of light" in the central square of Aiqing Cultural Park is composed of 36 natural stone columns with a square of 1.2 meters, which are arranged gradually according to the height. The highest height of the stone columns is 9.7 meters. It is integrated with the theme sculpture "reef" of urban defense engineering on the same route, and becomes a complete art.
The park is designed by Ai Weiwei, a famous artist who is the son of Ai Qing. It shows the flowing artistic conception of Ai Qing's poems from different angles through the unique modeling and the melody changes of light and shadow.
Memorial Hall
Aiqing memorial is located on the Bank of Wujiang River in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, China, with a construction area of 2700 square meters. There are five exhibition halls, a multifunctional lecture hall, a painting and calligraphy exhibition hall and a collection exhibition room.
In the text part of the exhibition hall, a lot of Ai Qing's words are quoted, and more than 20 Ai Qing's famous poems are selected and interspersed in the text. At the same time, about 160 photos of Ai Qing's important activities in various periods are selected.
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