Bajin's former residence

Bajin's former residence

Bajin's former residence is located at No.98 zhengtongshun street, Chengdu, Sichuan Province. It is a deep courtyard, also known as Li's courtyard. Ba Jin was born here in 1904. In addition to going to Guangyuan County with his father for two years, Ba Jin lived here until he was 19 years old and spent his youth here. In the spring of 1923, Ba Jin left here to study in Nanjing. The former residence used to be a brick and wood bungalow building with five entrances and three halls, including a hall, a hall, a Guitang and a courtyard wall. There are two osmanthus trees in the courtyard of Guitang. Among the two osmanthus trees is the central line of the former residence. The gate is just to the east of the central line. The courtyard wall is made of green bricks, with a total length of about 80 meters from south to north. After liberation, the courtyard became a part of the camp of the battle flag song and dance troupe of Chengdu Military Region. Unfortunately, Bajin's former residence was not completely preserved and was demolished in 1971.

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Shanghai apartment

No. 113, Wukang Road, Shanghai is Ba Jin's last residence in Shanghai. It is also the place where Mr. Ba Jin has lived for the longest time in Shanghai. This small building was built in 1923 and used to be a business representative office of the Soviet Union. Since 1955, Ba Jin and his daughter Li Xiaolin have lived in this three story building. The courtyard is full of Magnolia. Ba Jin has lived in this building for more than 40 years.

Ba Jin's life

Ba Jin: originally named Li Yaotang, whose name is Fugan, was born on November 25, 1904 in a feudal bureaucrat landlord family in zhengtongshun street, Chengdu, Sichuan Province (her grandfather Li Yong and father Li Daohe were officials of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and her mother Chen Shufen was a woman with both talent and appearance. Ba Jin studied and read with her since childhood). Chengdu, Sichuan, non partisan, ranking fourth at home. In 1909, he entered a private school to read Chinese characters at the age of 5. In 1921, he was admitted to Chengdu Foreign Language School at the age of 16. During this period, he read revolutionary publications such as "New Youth", "weekly review" and other foreign works such as "Suinian" by Kropotkin. In 1921, he took part in half moon, organized junshe, participated in some revolutionary social activities, and published articles in newspapers. In the spring of 1923, he left Sichuan for Shanghai and was admitted to the middle school attached to Nanjing Southeast University. He went to France to study in January 1927. In December 1928, he returned to Shanghai and translated Tolstoy, which was published in Oriental Magazine and signed by Ba Jin for the first time. From 1929 to 1933, he traveled to Shanghai, Nanjing and Peking, published representative works such as home, fog and rain, and translated my autobiography by Kropotkin. He went to Japan at the end of 1934. In August 1935, he returned to China and served as the general manager of Shanghai cultural life society, publishing "cultural life series", "Literature Series" and "small literature series". In 1936, he and Jin Yi founded Literature Monthly. During the Anti Japanese War, he and Mao Dun founded "beacon fire" and served as the director of the all China literary and art anti enemy Association. Later, he traveled to Wuhan, Chongqing, Chengdu, Kunming and other places to complete a large number of works such as spring and autumn. In May 1944, she married Xiao Shan (Chen Yunzhen, born in 1917 in Ningbo, Zhejiang) in Guiyang. In June 1949, he was elected to the Standing Committee of the Federation of literary and art circles and the standing director of the Association for literary and art circles (later changed to the Association for literary and art circles). In September 1949, he attended the CPPCC meeting in Beijing and was elected a member of the CPPCC. After 1950, he successively served as vice chairman and chairman of Shanghai Municipal Federation of literary and art circles, member of culture and Education Committee of Government Affairs Council, vice chairman of China Federation of literary and art circles, vice chairman, acting chairman and chairman of China Writers Association, chairman of Shanghai Branch of China Writers Association, vice chairman of Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference, chief editor of Literature Monthly, harvest and Shanghai literature, and President of China literature foundation. During the "Cultural Revolution", he was criticized and put into a "cowshed" and worked in the "May 7th cadre school" in Fengxian County of Shanghai for two and a half years. In 1972, his wife Xiao Shan died of illness. Ba Jin old man once wrote an article called "dog Baodi", which has been included in high school textbooks.

Literary laurels:

He won the international Dante award in 1982

In 1983, he was awarded the French legion of honor

He received an honorary doctorate in literature from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1984 and a foreign academician of the American Academy of literature and art in 1985

In 1990, he won the Soviet people's friendship medal

He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature in 2001

Main works:

The novels are death, love Trilogy (fog, rain, electricity), torrent Trilogy (home, spring, autumn) and anti Japanese War Trilogy (fire I, II, III), novella autumn in spring, diverting garden, cold night, prose anthology new sound anthology, hymn anthology, Capriccio (5) Set). His translations include the novels father and son, virgin land and his memoirs past and random thoughts.

Ba Jin's political career

After 1983, he served as vice chairman of the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and Tenth CPPCC National Committee, chairman of China Writers Association, deputy to the first to fourth NPC and member of the fifth NPC Standing Committee. Since the mid-1980s, he has published works such as the collection of diseases and the collection of untitled in Capriccio. He died in Shanghai on October 17, 2005. He was 101.

Address: No.98, zhengtongshun street, Chengdu

Longitude: 104.125021

Latitude: 30.627552

Tel: 028-66389659

Chinese PinYin : Ba Jin Gu Ju