276 years ago today, August 28, 1749 (July 16, 1749 in the lunar calendar) was the birthday of the famous German poet and playwright Goethe. Goethe, the famous German poet and playwright, was born on August 28, 1749. He passed away peacefully on March 22, 1832. He was 83 years old. He was one of the few long-lived writers in the history of world literature. In 1770, he began to prepare the great poetic drama "Faust", which was not completed until 1831. It was the crystallization of his lifelong ideological and artistic exploration. This poetic play is divided into two volumes and is more than 12000 lines long. It is a world masterpiece comparable to Homer's epics and Shakespeare's plays. Goethe is the main representative of German classical and national literature. Engels once said that Germany in Goethe's era was "shameful in politics and society" but "great in literature." The great achievements of German literature at that time were achieved to a considerable extent through Goethe's efforts. In February 1774, Goethe wrote his first novella,"The Troubles of Young Werther", in just four weeks. This epistolary novel made Goethe, who was only 25 years old, suddenly become a writer enjoying world reputation. This novel was popular in Europe, and even Napoleon, who had lived a military career all his life, carried it with him and read it seven times. Goethe was also the founder of German lyrical poetry and wrote many beautiful lyrical poems throughout his life. His talents and achievements are multi-faceted. In addition to drama, novels, and poetry, he is also very prominent in many fields such as literary and artistic theory, philosophy, history, plastic arts and natural sciences. He is always working tirelessly to create, and his creation and research are considerable in both quantity and quality. He was still lying on the desk and writing before the end of his life. There is a short poem that reflects his cherishing of time: How beautiful, how wide and how wide my industry is! Time is my property, and my field is time.