Wen Jie

Wen Jie

Wen Jie (1923-1971), formerly known as Zhao Wenjie, once known as Wu Zhilu, is a famous modern poet. Dantu, Jiangsu Province (now Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province). He has successively served as the director of the interview Department of the northwest head office of Xinhua news agency, the president of Xinjiang branch, the second director of China Writers' Association, and the vice chairman of Lanzhou Branch. Wen Jie's creation is mainly poetry, the main works are: "motherland! The glorious October (1958, published by the writers' Publishing House), the hymn of life (1959, published by the people's Literature Publishing House), the journey of Hexi Corridor (1959, published by the writers' Publishing House), and the poetry anthology Tianshan pastoral, the hymn of life, and the long poem the flame of revenge.

Life experience

Wen Jie was born on June 12, 1923 in the family of a railway worker in Dantu County, Jiangsu Province. As a boy, he was an apprentice in a coal factory. In early 1938, he went to Wuhan to participate in the Anti Japanese and national salvation drama activities. He joined the party in 1938. From 1940 to Yan'an, he worked and studied in the Northern Shaanxi literary and Art Troupe and the Northern Shaanxi public school, and wrote poems, essays, novels and plays reflecting the life of the army and the people in the Shaanxi Gansu Ningxia border region. During the war of liberation, as a reporter, he took part in the battle of the liberation of Northwest China and went to Xinjiang with the army as the director of the interview Department of the Northwest Branch of Xinhua news agency. In 1952, he served as the president of Xinjiang branch of Xinhua news agency. Later, he specialized in poetry creation. Wen Jie began to write literature before liberation, but he devoted himself to writing poetry and attracted wide attention. It was after the founding of the people's Republic of China that Wen Jie began to write poetry when he was working in Xinjiang in 1952. In 1955, in people's literature, a series of poems and narrative poems, such as love songs of Turpan, Bosten lakeside, the heart of sailors, folk songs of Guozigou, leaflets scattered at the crossroads, were successively published. Apart from some of these works about the life of the sailors and the agricultural cooperative movement in the southeast coast, most of them show the new life of the brothers in Xinjiang. Later, together with the author's other poems about Xinjiang style, they were collected as Tianshan pastoral (1955).

Most of the lyric poems in Tianshan pastoral have simple "plots". The author abstracts the life events and pictures into simple and harmonious, and describes the life scenes of Kazak, Uygur, Mongolian and other ethnic groups living at the foot of Tianshan Mountain, Heshuo grassland, Turpan Basin and Bosten Lake in a beautiful style to express their strong feelings for the new life. These lyric poems go deep into the inner world of the young men and women of the brotherhood and reveal the new factors sprouting in their thoughts and feelings due to the drastic changes in their lives: loyalty to the motherland, desire to create a new life, and pure love. In the pastoral of Tianshan Mountains, love poems occupy a large proportion. In the early days of the founding of the people's Republic of China, it is rare to express love so sincerely and strongly. These love poems are also noticed because they reveal the close relationship between love and labor, and the creation of a new life. They sing about the love of the liberated working people and the love with labor as the highest standard of choice. "Under the apple tree", "the Nightingale flies away", "the grapes are ripe", "after the dance" and "horse racing" all embody this feature. Around 1958, Wenjie lived in the Hexi Corridor of Gansu Province and took part in the local people's labor of changing mountains and harnessing water. Together with Li Ji, a poet, he cooperated with the production movement and central work at that time by using various forms such as "headline poems". This period of poetry, based on a wide range of materials, also wrote some good works to show the new mental outlook of workers. However, due to the lack of in-depth feeling of reality and careful preparation and tempering in art, many poems stay in the superficial description of life phenomenon.

Since 1959, Wen Jie began to publish his long narrative poem the fire of revenge. According to the plan, there are three long poems. The first "turbulent age" and the second "rebellious Grassland" were published in 1959 and 1962 respectively. The third one was not completed because of the impact of ten years of turmoil. The theme of the long poem is the rebellion that smashed the Balikun grassland in eastern Xinjiang in the early days of liberation. The people's Liberation Army carried out the national policy of the Communist Party of China, educated and united the hoodwinked masses, combined the military campaign with the political struggle, isolated the reactionaries in the Kazakh nationality, and won the victory of the counter insurgency. The long poem tries to express the complex struggle from a broader historical background. The parallel and interlacing of several plot clues and the depiction of many characters in various social strata make the long poem have the nature of grand epic. Some of the main characters have their own characteristics. In the first part, the image of young herdsman Bahar is distinctive and deep. The long poem depicts the complexity of this character's character, and shows the process of his final awakening. In addition, the scenery of Balikun grassland and the life customs of Kazakh people are well described in the long poem. Because the events involved in this long poem are complicated and many characters are described, some chapters are partial to plot narration. In January 1971, he was persecuted and killed by the gang of four.

Character love

On March 7, 1970, all the Shanghai Writers' Association entered the May 7th cadre school. At this time, Dai Houying divorced because of her long separation from her husband. The emotional breakdown of childhood sweetheart made Dai Houying very painful. Although Wen Jie, who was liberated after examination, was still living in a cowshed, he was the production leader of the company's subordinates because he was tall and strong, and his boss was Dai Houying. Two people a pig, a vegetable, together responsible for the daily production of labor arrangements. On the long dike between the cadre school and the field, they talked about literature, poetry, life and the future. They talked very speculatively, and gradually they fell in love with each other. On the afternoon of October 1, Dai Houying knocked on the door of Wenjie's room. In her essays at that time, Dai Houying recorded her feelings in this way. Wenjie completely included her in her heart like the sea. She closed her eyes and swayed on the sea, enduring the infiltration and caress of the sea. At this time, the world was free of those rough waves, only the two of them were left. Soon, an application for marriage was handed over to the publicity team, and the two made their love affair public. They hope to get married soon and take care of each other. More than a month later, there was no news of marriage application, and an ominous atmosphere began to permeate around them. The "Cultural Revolution" has made the relationship between people very complicated. Dai Houying's sharp edge has offended a lot of people. The shelling of Zhang Chunqiao has not made Dai Houying suffer enough. Then someone has to do something about her love affair with Wen Jie. At the end of the month, the company took a four-day holiday. While Dai Houying and Wen Jie were discussing how to use the four-day holiday to prepare for their marriage, the leader of the company suddenly announced that Wen Jie would stay on duty. They immediately realized that this was a man-made obstruction. On that day, they were wandering on the levee for a long time. The development of things is more and more unfavorable to them. Every time they have a holiday, Wen Jie will be left on duty, while Dai Houying will be transferred to Jilin. Wen Jie finally can't help but quarrel with the leader. A black line figure living in a cowshed quarrels with the leader of a rebel. This is a new trend of class struggle. On the afternoon of December 30, the May 7th cadre school held a critical meeting on Wen Jie. At the criticism meeting, Wen Jie not only didn't reflect on his guilt, but also said more firmly that he loved Dai Houying and couldn't leave him. His love for Dai Houying was out of control. This is just like adding fuel to the fire of his criticism. Wen Jie is said to be a confrontational movement and a dissatisfaction and counterattack against the "Cultural Revolution". Some people even say that Wen Jie is a traitor climbing out of the dog hole. Dai Houying listened to all this in silence. After the meeting, she rushed to the levee where they had made up their minds and burst into tears. The next morning, the whole cadre school broadcast a big character newspaper that "the traitors did not repent when they heard of the victory, insisted on the black line of literature and art, and attacked the proletariat, the revolutionary rebels and the corrupting rebels.". In order to make Dai Houying feel better, Wen Jie proposes to stop falling in love for the time being, but keep their relationship. But Dai Houying's character is rather inflexible, and her answer to Wen Jie is to break it resolutely.

On the eve of the Spring Festival in 1971, all the people from the May 7th cadre school went back to Shanghai, including Wenjie. Shanghai is cold in January, just like the mood of Dai Houying and Wen Jie at this time. When Dai Houying stood in front of Wen Jie and gave back the key to his home, the 1.9-meter-tall northeast man fell to his knees and burst into tears. Dai Houying kneels down in front of Wen Jie and says to Wen Jie in tears that she is not worthy of his love,

She is a woman without soul. Wen Jie was completely desperate. Dai Houying met Wen Jie for the last time at the municipal Party Congress. The meeting didn't end until the evening. Wen Jie didn't look at Dai Houying, who was in the meeting. He turned around and left. Out of concern for Wen Jie, Dai Houying followed him from Chengdu Road to Nanjing Road. When Dai Houying follows Wen Jie to a distance of 100 meters from Wen Jie's home, she stops. She knows that she can't see Wen Jie again. Long pain is better than short pain. Dai Houying reluctantly remembers Wen Jie and turns to walk back. That night, Wen Jie committed suicide at home. The poet fell down for the romantic love in his heart. The day after Wen Jie's death, the Shanghai Writers' Association immediately held a critical meeting on Wen Jie. In black, Dai Ying is very conspicuous. The meeting was not long, but the tone was very high. People waved their fists and scolded Wen Jie for being unrepentant. They hit the dead and hurt Dai Houying's heart. Dai Houying didn't catch a glance for seven days and nights. She regrets that she didn't come home with Wen Jie that night. This person has passed away, but the living person fell into the deep self reproach.

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