113 years ago today, February 5, 1912 (December 18, 1911, the lunar calendar) was the birthday of He Qifang, a modern China writer. He Qifang He Qifang (1912 - 1977), male, formerly known as He Yongfang, was born in a large old-fashioned family in Wanxian County, Sichuan (now Wanzhou, Chongqing). Famous modern essayist, poet, and literary and artistic critic. He once served as director of the Institute of Literature of China Academy of Sciences (now the Institute of Literature of China Academy of Social Sciences) and a member of the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences. Graduated from the Department of Philosophy at Peking University in 1935, he successively taught across the country, founded the publication "Work", published a large number of poems and political commentary articles, and expressed great indignation at the Kuomintang's passive resistance. His early works include: "Han Garden Collection","Night Songs","Prophecy","Night Songs and Day Songs", etc., which are deeply loved by readers. He also wrote "Autumn" and has now been included in middle school textbooks. "I Sing for Boys and Girls" is included in the textbook for the seventh middle school. In 1938, he taught at Lu Xun Art Academy in Yan 'an. In the same year, he joined the Communist Party of China and did a lot of pioneering work for revolutionary literature and art. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served successively as a member of the First, Second and Third National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a representative of the Third National People's Congress, a member of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, a secretary of the Secretariat of the Chinese Writers Association, a member of the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and director of the Institute of Literature, Editor-in-chief of Literary Review. He is a poet who has made great achievements in the great era and great changes throughout the mid-20th century. He Qifang loved ancient China poetry and novels when he was a child. In 1929, he went to Shanghai to study at the preparatory school of China Public School and read a large number of new poems. 1931-1935 He studied in the Department of Philosophy at Peking University in 1999. He Qifang published poems and essays in magazines such as Modern during his university years. In 1936, he, Bian Zhilin and Li Guangtian's poetry collection "Han Yuan Ji" was published, and his prose collection "Painting Dream Record" was published in 1937 and won the "Ta Kung Pao" Literary Gold Medal. After graduating from college, He Qifang successively taught at Tianjin Nankai Middle School and Shandong Laiyang Rural Normal School. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, He Qifang returned to his hometown of Sichuan to teach, while continuing to write poems, essays, etc. In 1938, he went north to Yan 'an, taught at Lu Xun Art Academy, and later served as the director of the Department of Literature of Lu Yi. After the founding of New China, he was mainly engaged in literary research and criticism, and participated in leadership work in the literary and artistic circles for a long time. He has served as a member of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Secretary of the Secretariat of China Writers Association, and Director of the Institute of Literature. Poetry is the literary style that He Qifang first loved and used. He claimed that he "dreamed of something beautiful and gentle all day long" when he began to create, and his early works clearly expressed the thoughts, feelings and personality of a petty-bourgeois intellectual youth. He is dissatisfied with the ugly reality, but he is not sure where the way out; He longed for the good things in life, but lacked enthusiastic pursuit. As a result, more people linger in nostalgia, longing and dreams, leaving only loneliness and depression behind. He Qifang showed his persistent pursuit of the perfection of the artistic form. In terms of poetry, he paid great attention to complete form, strict rhythm, and harmonious rhythm at the beginning of his creation, and paid attention to expressing the image and artistic conception of the poem. Therefore, his poems are obviously delicate and gorgeous. In terms of prose creation, he claimed that "my job is to discover a new realm for lyrical prose." He is good at integrating the characteristics of poetry, writing rich and lingering words, borrowing novel metaphors and allusions, and rendering illusory colors and patterns give his prose a unique style. It was at the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, especially after Yan 'an, that the changes in ideological and artistic style were truly evident. At this time, he gradually left his dream and faced reality. His poetic style became simple and clear. The six-volume "Collected Works of He Qifang"(People's Literature Publishing House) contains most of He Qifang's creations and works.