On this day, 40 years ago, on June 8, 1985 (April 20, 1985, the lunar calendar), China poet Hu Feng died of illness. Hu Feng Hu Feng (1902-1985) China poet, literary theorist. His original name was Zhang Guang, from Qichun, Hubei Province. He studied in Japan in 1929 and joined the Japanese Communist Party and the Japanese Anti-War Alliance the following year. In 1933, he was expelled from China by the Japanese government and arrived in Shanghai. He successively served as Propaganda Minister of the China Left Writers 'League and Secretary of the Left League, making certain contributions to the leftist literary and artistic movement led by the Communist Party of China. He began writing professionally in the winter of 1934. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he engaged in progressive literary and artistic activities in accordance with the party's policies. He has edited "July","July Poetry Collection","July Literature Collection","Hope" and other literary and artistic publications in Shanghai, Wuhan, Chongqing and other places, and has written a large number of literary and artistic commentary articles. In 1949, he participated in the first plenary session of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. In July 1954, Hu Feng sent a long 300,000-word report to the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, stating his opinions on literary and artistic issues. On January 20, 1955, the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China submitted the "Report on Carrying out Criticizing Hu Feng's Thought" to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, requiring that Hu Feng's literary and artistic thoughts be publicly criticized while criticizing Yu Pingbo and Hu Shi. The report of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee held that Hu Feng's report to the Central Committee "systematically and resolutely promoted his bourgeois idealism" and was "an anti-party and anti-people literary and artistic thought. His activities are sectarian clique activities." The report also requests to "pay attention to and investigate" the "possible hidden bad elements" in Hu Feng's small group. On January 26, 1955, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China approved the report. On May 13, 1955, the People's Daily began to publish "Materials on Hu Feng's Counter-Revolutionary Group." Mao Zedong wrote an editor's note, asserting that Hu Feng and others were "a counter-revolutionary faction hidden in the revolutionary camp" and "with the task of overthrowing the People's Republic of China and restoring the rule of the imperialist Kuomintang." On May 18, with the approval of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Hu Feng was arrested and imprisoned. He also arrested 92 people including Lu Ling and Niu Han across the country. Beginning in June, a nationwide campaign to expose, criticize and check out the "Hu Feng Counter-Revolutionary Group" was launched. More than 2100 people were implicated, of whom 92 were arrested, 62 were quarantined and examined, and 73 were suspended for reflection. Hu Feng himself was sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment in 1965, and in 1969, he was sentenced to life imprisonment, resulting in a major unjust, false and wrong case. In December 1978, after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China completely corrected this wrong case and restored the reputation of Hu Feng and others. Hu Feng was released in 1979. Since then, he has served as a standing member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a member of the fourth session of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and an adviser to the China Writers Association. He died of illness in Beijing on June 8, 1985. His works include poetry collections "Wild Flowers and Arrows","Song for the Motherland","Time Has Began", literary and artistic criticism collections "Written Talks on Literature and Art","Notes on the Customs of the Miyun Period","Sword, Literature and Art, and the People","On Ethnic Forms","In Chaos","Days Against the Current","For Tomorrow", etc.