Luo Binji

Luo Binji

Luo Binji, a writer, was born in 1917 and died in 1994. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1938. He once served as the director of Guilin Branch of all China Anti enemy Association of literary and art circles, executive director and Secretary General of Northeast Culture Association, and chief editor of war flag, literary journal and northeast culture. After the founding of the people's Republic of China, he successively served as vice chairman of Shandong Federation of literary and art circles, member of Shandong Provincial Committee of culture and education, vice chairman of Beijing Branch of China Writers' Association, member of the fourth session of China Writers' Association, and director of the third and fourth sessions of China Writers' Association.

personal works

He has written many novels such as frontier line, childhood, selected short stories by Luo Binji and new textual research on Jin Wen.

Life of the characters

Original name experience

Luo Binji, formerly known as Zhang pujun, was born in 1917 in the family of a small businessman running a tea shop in Hunchun city. When Luo Binji began to remember, his family was bankrupt and had to make a living by selling off inventory. When he was a child, he used to take his beloved Russian purebred dog and run in the ice covered river valley or the green tent in summer. The vast, vigorous, desolate and full of vitality of the northern border nature, edified and enriched his inner world, and laid a unique natural and humanistic tone for his later literary creation. When Luo Binji was 13 years old, he went to the county primary and secondary school to study. At the same time, the school hired a group of new teachers who graduated from Xiangshan children's College in Peking. Luo Binji learned about equality, the May 4th movement, the May 30th Movement and the Communist Party of China In 1931, the September 18th Incident, which shocked China and foreign countries, broke out. The teacher in charge of the class told the students "the last lesson" by dude. Luo Binji couldn't restrain his anger: "are you really going to be a slave of subjugation from now on? No, it can't be As a young man, he began to worry about the fate of his motherland. In 1933, Luo Binji went to Beiping high school. Because he missed the registration time, he had to attend Peking University and study in the National Library. The works of Lev Tolstoy and Gorky greatly attracted him and inspired him to have a sense of mission to write for the destiny of China.

In the summer of 1935, Luo Binji returned to Hunchun and wanted to study in the Oriental University of the Soviet Union. However, the border was tightly blocked by the Japanese Kwantung Army, so he transferred to Harbin. There, he got to know Jin Jianxiao and other left-wing literary youths. He was inspired to learn that Xiao Jun's village in August and Xiao Hong's field of life and death were published with the support of Lu Xun. He followed the footsteps of "Er Xiao" and went to Shanghai to report to the left-wing literature and Art Camp represented by Lu Xun. As soon as he finished the first two chapters of the novel frontier line, he couldn't wait to send it to Lu Xun. At that time, Lu Xun was seriously ill, and it was the beginning of a long article. He wrote back that he was afraid to read the manuscript for a while. In October 1936, the end of "frontier line" was coming, but Lu Xun died. Luo Binji summoned up courage to write to Mao Dun in grief and disappointment. Recommended by Mao Dun, Shanghai Tianma bookstore, edited by Ba Ren, is going to publish "frontier online". Soon after, the August 13 Songhu war broke out and Tianma bookstore was bombed. Fortunately, the manuscript was preserved by Ba people. It was not until November 1939 that the novel "frontier line", reflecting the struggle of the Northeast Anti Japanese volunteers, was published by the cultural life Publishing House edited by BA Jinren.

August 13

As soon as the "August 13" artillery shot, Luo Binji immediately volunteered to the Anti Japanese War organization. First, he worked in the "youth protection corps" to rescue and transport the wounded day and night. Later, he joined a "special force" preparing to go behind the enemy to fight guerrillas. It was also during this period that he began to publish a large number of reportages reflecting the Anti Japanese war under the pseudonym of Luo Binji in such newspapers as beacon fire and Nahuo. Later, it was integrated into a day in Shanghai, which was his first cry on the literary front. In December 1937, Luo Binji went to Shengxian County in eastern Zhejiang Province to engage in national salvation propaganda activities. In April 1938, he joined the Communist Party of China and served as the propaganda minister of Shengxian county Party committee. In 1940, Luo Bin lost his relationship with the party organization. Throughout the 1940s, he traveled to Guilin, Hong Kong, Chongqing, Shanghai and other places to engage in literary activities. The short story "the spring of beiwangyuan" during this period, Taking Guilin as the background, describes the life and vision of a group of intellectuals with exquisite brushwork and unique artistic style. The first autobiographical novel, chaos, takes the social life from 1918 to 1921 as the background. It describes the life of the young Jiang Buwei in the landlord merchant family, and shows the distinctive natural scenery, social customs and human state of the northern border cities. During this period, he also wrote novella Wu Feiyou, evidence of crime, short story fellow citizen Kang Tiangang, myth blue Tumen River, script may lilac and biography Xiao Hong. In March 1947, in order to mobilize local armed forces to accept our army's reorganization, Luo Binji was unfortunately arrested by Kuomintang troops in Changchun Suburb on his way to Harbin. He was detained in Shenyang and Nanjing for nearly two years before he was released.

National Congress of the people's Republic of China

In July 1949, Luo Binji attended the first National Congress of the people's Congress of the people's Republic of China held in Beiping, and then worked for the people's daily. Later, he came to Shandong and was elected vice chairman of the Provincial Federation of literary and art circles. In 1953, Luo Binji was transferred to Beijing Film Studio to engage in professional creation. He went to the famous han'en mutual aid group in Jiaohe county many times to "experience life" and successively wrote several short stories based on rural life in Northeast China. In 1955, he was implicated in the Hufeng case, and was later "transferred" to Weihe Town, Shangzhi County, Heilongjiang Province as deputy mayor. In 1962, Luo Bin moved to the Beijing Municipal Federation of literary and art circles and soon became Vice Chairman of the municipal writers' Association. During this period, he created short stories such as "mother Wang", "father and daughter", "trading", "annual leave", "mountain purchasing station" and published a collection of short stories "Old Wei Jun and Fangfang". These novels are good at choosing different angles and using a variety of descriptive techniques to reflect the real life. Exquisite cutting, delicate style, vivid characters, with distinctive local characteristics.

In the Cultural Revolution

In the "Cultural Revolution", Luo Binji was the first to be attacked and was criticized with Lao She, but he never lost his revolutionary faith. In 1974, he was assigned to work in Beijing Municipal Museum of literature and history. He became interested in the study of ancient Chinese characters, and overcame the difficulties of hemiplegia and severe eyesight decline. He began to engage in the study of ancient Chinese characters and published two volumes of the new examination of Jin Wen. Using the method of Xu Shen's Shuowen Jiezi, he analyzed the characteristics and changes of the form, meaning and sound of the ancient Jin inscriptions. At the same time, he combined with the historical documents to research the original meaning of the characters. In particular, he put forward the theory of "clan's mark" and explained some ancient Chinese characters expressing the clan's surname, which enriched the content of ancient philology and made a new development in the study of ancient Chinese history.

Luo Binji's main works include selected short stories of Luo Binji, new interpretation of the book of songs and new theory of ancient history, and the screenplay of Jingpo Lake. In June 1994, Luo Binji died of illness at the age of 77.

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