Liu Baiyu

Liu Baiyu

Liu Baiyu (1916.9.28-2005.8.24), a native of Qingzhou, Weifang, Shandong Province, was born in Tongzhou, Beijing. He joined the Communist Party of China in December 1938. He is an outstanding representative of modern literature, an outstanding essayist, reportage writer, novelist and writer. In the long-term practice of revolutionary struggle, he wrote a large number of outstanding works with distinctive characteristics of the times, profound ideological connotation and unique artistic style.

On September 23, 2019, Liu Baiyu's novel "the second sun" was selected as "the collection of 70 novels in 70 years of new China".

Profile of characters

Liu Baiyu: male, born in 1916 in Beijing. He is a member of the Communist Party of China. He graduated from the Chinese Department of Peking University of the Republic of China in 1936. In 1941, he took part in revolutionary work. He successively served as secretary of Yan'an cultural and anti Japanese branch, director of supplement Department of Chongqing Xinhua Daily, military reporter of Xinhua news agency, deputy director of General Administration and Culture Department, deputy secretary and secretary, vice chairman and Secretary of the Party group of China Writers Association, deputy director of Culture Department of the State Council, director of General Administration and Culture Department, chief editor of people's literature magazine, deputy director of the military region. Deputy to the first CPPCC National Committee, deputy to the first, second, third, fifth and Sixth National People's Congress, member of the seventh CPPCC National Committee, deputy to the Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, vice chairman of the international pen association, China PEN Center, President of the Chinese Biographical Literature society, and honorary vice chairman of the fifth Chinese Writers Association. His works began to be published in 1936.

He has written many novels, such as the Pacific, the collection of essays, the collection of red agate, the collection of sea and sky, the collection of autumn Yang, the collection of La Ye, the collection of short stories, such as on the grassland, on the Lan River, under the Wutai Mountain, the sun, happiness, on the road with dust, the collection of morning light, the collection of reportage, such as Liu Baiyu's northeast communication, the collection of traveling around the northeast, and the short story invincible Three They are the warrior, political commissar, prose three days of the Yangtze River, sunrise, etc. "Victory of the Chinese people" (filmed and released) won the first prize of Stalin literature and Art Award in 1950, the prose "Fang Cao Ji" won the excellent prose award of China Writers Association in 1989, the novel "the second sun" won the Mao Dun Literature Award in 1991, and the memoir "heart and soul course" won the excellent biographical literature award in 1995.

Personage introduction

He has successively served as secretary of the Party branch of Yan'an Branch of the all China Association of literary and art circles against the enemy, director of the supplement Department of Chongqing Xinhua Daily, reporter of the executive department of the Beiping military Mediation Office, special military reporter of the Xinhua news agency, Secretary of the Party group of the Chinese writers' Association, vice chairman of the writers' Association, Secretary of the Secretariat of the writers' Association, Vice Minister of the Culture Department of the people's Republic of China, and Minister of the Culture Department of the General Political Department of the Chinese people's Liberation Army , consultant, editor in chief of people's literature, etc. Liu Baiyu is a deputy to the Eighth Party Congress of the Communist Party of China, the first, second, third, fifth and Sixth National People's Congress, the first and seventh member of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference.

For more than half a century, he has participated in the war of resistance against Japan, the war of liberation, the war to resist US aggression and aid Korea, and the founding of new China. After the Yan'an Forum on literature and art, he has consistently adhered to the orientation of literature and art as workers, peasants and soldiers, and then wrote for socialism and the people.

Character experience

He was an apprentice when he was a child. In 1930, he entered the No.1 Middle School of Beiping.

After the September 18th Incident, driven by patriotic enthusiasm, he joined the army. After the troops stationed in Suiyuan, due to typhoid fever was sent home to recuperate.

In 1934, he was admitted to the Chinese Department of Peking University of the Republic of China and began to practice writing.

In March 1936, the first novel "ice sky" was published in Literature Monthly, which exposed the corruption of the old army. In 1937, he published the first collection of novels on the grassland. Both "ice sky" and "on the prairie" were selected as the selected short stories of 1936 published by Liangyou book company. These works mainly reflect some social problems at that time.

In the spring of 1938, he went to Yan'an, the holy land of revolution. He joined the Communist Party of China in the same year. In May, he joined the literary and Art Troupe and traveled around the Anti Japanese base areas in North China, where he was tempered by the fire of war.

In 1939, he went to Taihang Mountain and was assigned by the organization to write the biography of General Zhu De. He returned to Yan'an in 1940. During this period, he created many works reflecting the Anti Japanese war life and praising the Anti Japanese army and people, such as prose feature "seven generals of the Eighth Route Army" (cooperating with Wang Yuqi), "guerrilla center"; novel "Longyan village Chronicle", etc. In 1944, he went to Chongqing as a supplement to Xinhua daily and wrote a lot of works about the life in the border areas.

At the beginning of 1946, he worked as a reporter in the Department of military mediation in Beiping. Soon after the talks between the Kuomintang and the Communist party broke down, he was sent to the Northeast battlefield as an army reporter of Xinhua news agency. He personally experienced many battles such as the liberation of northeast and North China, and then went south with the army until he won the war of liberation. His long-term fighting life provided him with a rich source of creation. With full enthusiasm, he worked hard to portray the heroic images of the PLA's commanders and fighters, and created short stories such as political commissar, the flames of war, the three invincible warriors, novella in front of the fire, and reportage collection fighting for the motherland. These works have a strong fighting atmosphere, simple artistic style, full of inspiring power. In 1950, he participated in the production of the film victory of the Chinese people, which reflects the war of liberation, and won the Stalin prize for literature and art. During the war of resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea, he went to the front line of Korea twice and wrote prose communication collection "Korea marching in the fire of war", "oath to peace" and short story collection "happiness in fighting", which revealed the atrocities of the aggressors, praised the spirit of the volunteers and the Korean people's army fighting side by side and the profound friendship between the people of China and Korea.

On October 19, 1996, Liu Baiyu personally handed over the first batch of precious literature and art archives, including some works, manuscripts, awards, medals, trophies, famous calligraphy and paintings, newspaper clippings, etc., to his hometown Tongxian archives. His representative works include three days of the Yangtze River, the course of the soul, the water of the Yellow River coming up from the sky, the second sun, the victory of the Chinese people, the collection of herbs, the collection of red agates, the sun in the morning, ten thousand guns shaking the Golden Gate, and the foot of Wutai Mountain. His work "three days of the Yangtze River" has been selected as a high school textbook. At 2 p.m. on August 24, 2005, Liu Baiyu died of illness in 301 Hospital at the age of 89.

Achievement impact

Personal achievement

After the Yan'an Forum on literature and art, he has consistently adhered to the orientation of literature and art as workers, peasants and soldiers, and then wrote for socialism and the people. In the long-term practice of revolutionary struggle, he wrote a large number of outstanding works with distinctive characteristics of the times, profound ideological connotation and unique artistic style. Over the past 60 years, more than 50 works have been published with more than 4 million words, and many of them have been translated into English, Russian, German, Myanmar and other languages. "Three days of the Yangtze River", "sunrise" and other works have been selected into middle school and university textbooks.

Personal development

Liu Baiyu is an outstanding representative of modern literature, an outstanding essayist, reportage writer, novelist and writer. In the long-term practice of revolutionary struggle, many works, such as the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River and sunrise, have been selected as textbooks for middle schools and universities.

Honors

"Victory of the Chinese people" won the first prize of Stalin literature and Art Award in 1951;

Fang Cao Ji won the excellent prose award of China Writers Association in 1989;

The novel the second sun won the third Mao Dun Literature Prize and the Yanhuang cup people's literature prize from 1986 to 1994;

The long memoir the course of the soul won the excellent biography literature award in 1995;

Fang Cao Ji won the first (1990-1994) excellent prose award;

Liu Baiyu has deep feelings for his hometown. "My manuscripts, completed books, certificates, medals, trophies, all the books, photos, audio and video recordings, as well as all the calligraphy, paintings and artworks are dedicated to my hometown Tongxian, Beijing," he said This righteous act of Comrade Liu Baiyu has been approved and strongly supported by the General Political Department of the Chinese people's Liberation Army and the party and government leaders in Tongzhou.

Hold a post

After 1955, he mainly served as a cultural leader. He has successively served as vice chairman of the Chinese Writers Association, Secretary of the leading Party group of the Writers Association, Vice Minister of the Ministry of culture, and Minister of the Ministry of culture of the General Political Department of the Chinese people's Liberation Army. At the same time, he insisted on creation and wrote many excellent works reflecting the socialist revolution and construction and eulogizing new ideas and new customs. There are mainly prose collection "torch and sun", "morning sun", "red agate collection", "morning light collection" and short story collection "people marching on the morning light"; novella "road with dust" and so on. Among them, the achievement of prose is more outstanding. His prose has a strong sense of the times, full of revolutionary passion, rough, bold, poetic, forming a unique artistic style.

After the end of the "Cultural Revolution", he radiated a new artistic youth, wrote a large number of essays, and revised and completed the long biographical literature "the sea: a record of Comrade Zhu De", which had been written in the first draft during the Anti Japanese war.

The novel the second sun, published in 1987, takes the PLA's crossing the Yangtze River during the war of liberation as the broad background, and successfully portrays the glorious images of our army's high and middle commanders and ordinary soldiers. The plot of the work is ups and downs, the language is beautiful and vivid, won the third Maodun literature award. After four years of painstaking efforts, Liu Baiyu, who is 80 years old, has completed a long masterpiece of more than 700000 words, wind and rain in the Pacific Ocean.

Main works

novel

Stormy Pacific

The second sun

Collection of essays

Collection of red agate

Feng Shuang Ji

Collection of sea and sky

Qiuyang collection

La Ye Ji

A collection of Novels

On the grassland

On the blue river

Wutai Mountain

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