121 years ago today, on November 25, 1904 (October 19, 1904 in the lunar calendar), the modern writer Ba Jin was born. Ba Jin On November 25, 1904, the modern writer and translator Ba Jin was born in Chengdu, Sichuan, and his ancestral home was Jiaxing, Zhejiang. Ba Jin's original name was Li Yaotang, and the character Fu Gan. In 1920, Ba Jin was admitted to the Chengdu Foreign Language School, initiated the organization "Junshe", and served as the editor-in-chief of "The Voice of the Common People". In 1923, he went to Shanghai, Nanjing and other places to study. In 1925, he translated Kropotkin's "A Little Bread" and other works. In 1927, he went to Paris to study, and the following year he wrote a novel "Perdition". Returned to China at the end of 19 Since 1931, literary creation has entered a prosperous period, and he has written 10 novels such as "Torrent" (ie "Home"), 10 collections of short stories, and 6 collections of prose. In November 1934, he went to Japan under the pseudonym "Li Derui" and returned to China in August the following year. He later edited "Literary Quarterly" and "Wenji Monthly" with Jin Yi, and served as the editor-in-chief of Cultural Life Publishing House. He was responsible for editing "Cultural Life Series", "Literary Series", and "Translation Series". Published short story collections "General", "Silence", etc. In November 1936, he published the "Declaration of Unity and Anti-Insult and Freedom of Speech in the Literary and Art Circle" with 21 people including Lu Xun and Guo Moruo. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he served as the editorial board member of Shanghai "Salvation Daily" and a director of the All-China Association of Literary and Art Circles to Resist the Enemy. He traveled to Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Hankou, Guilin and Kunming, Chongqing and other places in the southwest of China. Published novels such as "Spring", "Autumn", "Garden" and short stories such as "Rejuvenation Grass". After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he published novellas "The Fourth Ward Room" and "Cold Night". After the founding of New China, he was a representative of the First, Second and Third Congresses of the National People's Congress. He served as vice chairperson of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, vice chairperson and chairperson of the Chinese Writers Association, chairperson of the Shanghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles, chairperson of the Shanghai Branch of the Writers Association, and editor-in-chief of PEN International. In April 1982, he There are "Ba Jin Collections" and "Complete Works of Ba Jin".