On this day, 37 years ago, June 22, 1988 (May 9, 1988, the lunar calendar), writer Xiao Jun passed away. Xiao Jun was born in July 1907 in Xianiangangou Village, Shenjiatai Town, Yi County, Liaoning Province. Due to his poverty, he only attended primary school. In 1925, he began his military career and served as a trainee, military and martial arts assistant. His writing career began in the army. In 1932, Xiao Jun officially began literary creation under the pseudonym "Sanlang" in Harbin, and jointly carried out literary and artistic activities with underground members of the Communist Party of China and progressive youth. After nearly a year of hard work, Xiao Jun wrote and completed the novel "The Countryside in August", which expresses the anti-Japanese struggle of the Northeast People's Revolutionary Army. This book was unanimously praised by the progressive literary and artistic circles and the progressive masses, and was praised as a banner in literature to resist Japanese imperialist aggression. Lu Xun specially made a preface to the book. He wrote: "I have seen several novels about the occupation of the three northeastern provinces. This" Village in August "is a very good one." After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Xiao Jun had been engaged in amateur literature and art teaching for workers and participated in the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Movement. He arrived in Yan 'an in 1940. During his five years in Yan' an, he served as director of the Yan 'an Branch of the All-China Literary and Art Circles Anti-Enemy Association, director of the Lu Xun Research Society, editor-in-chief of the Literature and Art Daily, and a teacher at the Lu Xun Academy of Art and Literature. He also participated in Yan' an Literature and Art Symposium. After the liberation of the country, Xiao Jun continued to engage in literature and art research and creation. The Peking Opera "King Wu Conquering Zhou", the novel "The Mine of May", and "The Past Times" were all works of his period. During the Cultural Revolution, Xiao Jun was persecuted and imprisoned for a full eight years. After the overthrow of the Gang of Four, he returned to the literary world, sorted out more than 800 old poems, and also annotated letters sent to him by Xiao Hong and Lu Xun. In 1979, Xiao Jun attended the 4th Congress of China Literary and Art Workers and was elected as a member of the National Federation of Literary and Art Circles and a director of the China Writers Association. On June 22, 1988, Xiao Jun unfortunately passed away. In his will to his family, he said: "I am a poor literati and left no property behind. If I have some meager savings to donate to my hometown, I will donate my cultural relics and books to the Xiaojun Information Museum and relevant cultural departments in Jin County, Liaoning Province."