Rong's life story

Xi Rong, a writer, was originally named Xi Cheng Zheng. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, three or four young people left home to find a way out in Xipo Village, Pu County, Shanxi Province, and only Xi Cheng Zheng joined China. Xi Cheng Zheng's "Xi" is homophonic with Xipo Village's "Xi", so Xi Cheng Zheng takes Xirong as his pen name. Xirong is very concerned about the cultural construction in his hometown, and made a special trip back to Puxian in the autumn of 1989 to hold a creative lecture to improve the creative level of literary lovers in his hometown. He often goes back to his hometown to write poems and calligraphy for the temple fair during the Dongyue Temple Fair in this county, and prospers Puxian culture.

Xi Rong 1935 graduated from Puxian Senior High School and was admitted to Linfen Provincial Sixth Middle School. He dropped out of school to herd sheep due to family changes. 1937 After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he joined the Northwest Field Service Corps led by Ding Ling. 1April, 938, participated in the working group of Puxian Ximeng Association and engaged in anti-Japanese propaganda activities. Later, he was transferred to the Lvliang Drama Club, which belongs to the second column of the New Army, to publicize anti-Japanese activities with literary performances. In May, 1940, China Jia * * *, in February, 65438 went to Yan 'an with the drama club to study in the military art cadre training class and the military art school affiliated to Lu Yi. 1942 was sent to the editorial department of the eighth route army 120 division drama club as an officer, started literary and artistic creation, and wrote the first novel after I left the team. /kloc-in the autumn of 0/942, he was engaged in literary and artistic propaganda work in the cultural task force of the Jin-Sui base area.

1944 Participated in the "Collection of July 7th Literature Prize" commemorating the 7th anniversary of the Anti-Japanese War in the Jin-Sui Border Region, and won the first prize for the yangko opera Wang Desuo Rent Reduction. In August of the same year, he was transferred to Jinsui Popular Newspaper as an editor. In June, the novel Biography of luliang heroes 1945 co-authored with Ma Feng was serialized in JinSui Popular Newspaper. And printed into a book and distributed at home and abroad, with far-reaching influence. In addition, he also created many novels, essays, plays and so on. 1April, 949, served as a reporter for Jinnan Daily and attended the first meeting of literary and art representatives in Beijing. At the end of the year, he went south with the army and founded the West Sichuan Daily in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, serving as the editorial board and editor-in-chief of the supplement. Later, he was transferred to the West Sichuan Farmers' Newspaper as the president and editor-in-chief. 1952 transferred to Beijing Central Literature Research Institute as the deputy head of the creative guidance group, engaged in professional creation, including Disputes, Wheat Harvest, Song Boss Entering the City, etc. /kloc-in 0/955, he was transferred back to Shanxi as the deputy director of the Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the deputy secretary of the Party Group, the vice chairman of the Shanxi Branch of the Writers Association, and the editor-in-chief of Spark magazine. In his spare time, he created corduroy and Spark. Persecuted during the Cultural Revolution, he was sent to work in Yuncheng Xifu Brigade. 1975 resumed his work as editor-in-chief of Fenshui magazine. After the Cultural Revolution, he served as honorary member of the National Committee of the Chinese Writers Association, honorary chairman of the Shanxi Writers Association, vice chairman of the Provincial Old Writers Association, director of the Chinese Writers Association, chairman of the Shanxi Writers Association, vice chairman of the Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and member of the Standing Committee of the Shanxi Provincial People's Congress. During this period, he created novels such as "Spring Cow Mom", "Days in Hostel", screenplays such as "Uncle Brothers" and a large number of essays. 1992 was awarded the title of "People's Writer" by Shanxi Provincial Party Committee and Shanxi Provincial People's Government, 1993 enjoyed the special government allowance issued by the State Council, and 1994 retired. He continued to write after retirement and died in Taiyuan on 200 1 654381October 6 at the age of 79. When Rong was 6 years old, he entered primary school and achieved excellent results in composition. Besides finishing his studies, he also likes to hear about scholars and watch plays in bookstores, which has a certain influence on his later literary and artistic creation career. 1September, 933, Xirong was admitted to Puxian No.1 Higher Primary School, lived in my cousin's house and worked as a teacher in the county. My cousin is a young man who accepted the May 4th new cultural trend of thought when he was studying in Taiyuan. Under his influence, Xi Rong read a lot of works of modern writers such as Lu Xun and classical novels such as Water Margin and The Journey to the West in his spare time. Lu Xun's description of his hometown, especially the scene description in social dramas, deeply infected Xirong. The characterization in classical novels made Rong appreciate the charm of literature. Two years later, he graduated from high school and was admitted to No.6 Middle School in Linfen. However, due to family difficulties, he was unable to go to school and became a shepherd.

From July 65438 to July 0937 in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the Northwest Field Service Corps led by writer Ding Ling went to Puxian to publicize the Anti-Japanese War, which had a great influence on Xirong. Soon, 16-year-old Rong joined the anti-Japanese national salvation group Ximenghui and began his revolutionary career. Because of his literary expertise, he was assigned to literary propaganda work, and transferred to Lvliang Drama Club after half a year. 1At the end of 939, Xirong went to Yan 'an for short-term business study with Lvliang Drama Club. They are stationed in Qiaoergou, where Lu Xun Art College is located, so they can take classes in Lu Yi and receive the guidance of teacher Lu Yi. Being able to watch the performances and movies of Lu Yi and other literary and art units is an opportunity for Xirong to broaden his horizons and increase his knowledge. It's just that this opportunity only lasted for five months, and then I went back to northwest Shanxi to continue my literary and artistic activities and experienced the anti-mopping-up campaign. /kloc-in the winter of 0/940, the superior organization of * * * arranged Lvliang Drama Club to study in Yan 'an again. This study is of great significance in Xirong's life and creation. 1In July, 949, Xirong went to Beijing to attend the first meeting of literary representatives in China. Later, he joined the People's Liberation Army in the campaign to expand the northwest and southwest. At the end of the same year, he went to Chengdu, Sichuan to prepare the West Sichuan Daily, and served as the editorial board and editor-in-chief of the supplement. A year later, he was transferred to the editor-in-chief of West Sichuan Farmers' Daily. He used his many years' experience in running popular newspapers in Shanxi and Suiyuan to run the West Sichuan Farmers' Newspaper, which is easy to understand and well received by readers. Later, he returned to Sichuan Federation of Literary and Art Circles, served as creative minister, editor-in-chief of West Sichuan Literature and Art, and president of West Sichuan Rap newspaper, and trained and discovered a number of new scholars such as Liushahe. After his busy work, he still took time out to write, including the novel Check Night, Autumn Harvest Season (in cooperation with Liushahe), The Story of a Female Xiu Turning Over (in cooperation with Chen Qian) and several essays and comments. However, he felt that it was difficult to experience life and write comfortably because of the different living environment and language from his hometown in Shanxi, so he fell into distress. He wrote this distress to Ma Feng, an old comrade-in-arms in Beijing. Ma Feng understood his feelings very well and told Ding Ling, then director of the Central Literature Research Institute. Ding Ling went directly to the Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China, and in June 1952 1 1 transferred Xirong from Sichuan to Beijing as the deputy head of the creative guidance group of the Central Literature Research Institute, mainly engaged in creative work. In the early summer of the following year, he returned to Fenyang County, Shanxi Province to live in depth, served as deputy secretary of the county party committee, and conducted a pilot cooperative expansion in Jiajiazhuang Village.

Through in-depth life, Rong created a series of successful short stories, including: Dispute, A Youth, Wheat Harvest, Boss Song Entering the City, Building a stable, and Practicing Medicine. These works play an important role in all Xirong's creations. From the content, it involves many important issues in rural areas, and it is a true portrayal of rural life in China in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. For example, the controversy shows the problem of equal pay for equal work between men and women; A young man told a story about the fierce conflict between traditional ideas and new ideas. Wheat Harvest highlights how to deal with the contradiction between collective interests and individual interests. Boss Song's entry into the city shows the material and spiritual changes of farmers after the realization of agricultural cooperation. "Building a stable" and "medical practice incident" reflect the problems that cadres' work style needs to be improved in rural work.

Shan Yao Egg School and Sanjin Culture

Through this in-depth life, Rong feels that he will continue to work in Beijing, and there is a distance from his familiar rural areas in Shanxi. So, from 65438 to 0955, he returned to Shanxi, and successively served as deputy director of the Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles, deputy secretary of the Party Group, vice chairman of the Shanxi Branch of the Chinese Writers Association, and editor-in-chief of Spark. During this period, Rong's main energy was spent on the editing of Spark. Starting from 1956, the first issue was published in June, 10, and closed in July, 1966. In more than ten years, he has done his duty and solicited contributions extensively. In addition to carefully reviewing and revising his forthcoming works, he also read a large number of natural contributions, from which he found potential literary talents. He is always patient with many young writers who come to the editorial department. With the joint efforts of him and all the staff in the editorial department, the circulation of Spark increased from one issue to the next, reaching a maximum of 6,543,800+0.2 million, making it one of the most influential literary magazines in China. Ten years after its publication, Spark has made outstanding contributions to promoting the creation of rural novels in China, promoting the creation of Shaanxi literature and cultivating young writers, especially the "Shan Yao Egg School", an important school in the history of modern and contemporary literature in China.

On the basis of editing publications, Xirong chose Yongji, Yuncheng and other places as places to experience rural life, and obtained creative materials, and successively wrote novels such as Girl's Secret, Wang Renhou and his in-laws, son-in-law, Between the Two Rivers, Mule's Story, Corduroy, Winter Night and Sister Lai. A number of outstanding works have won awards, such as the one-act drama Trap, the film literary script Starry Night in the Spring and Autumn Period (in cooperation with Li Yimin), full-length play's script Glory of Youth, and the long reportage Before Honor-Wu Jichang, an expert in cotton planting.

1962, Xirong published the short story "Sister Lai". This novel not only brought him honor, but also brought him endless troubles. Through Lai's three experiences of raising pigs, the novel reflects the complicated contradictions among the people during the period of socialist construction, criticizes the thought of harming the public and enriching the private interests and individualism, and puts forward the problem of how to better develop the rural economy. The works were created by Xi Rong, who lived deeply for a long time, felt the expression of farmers' inherent consciousness of small farmers in the new era, and learned the close relationship between China's policies and farmers' enthusiasm for labor production and rural economic development. The questions are sharp and the characters are real and vivid. Therefore, after publication, it has been loved by readers and aroused widespread concern in the literary world. The Chinese Writers Association fully affirmed this novel at the "Symposium on Rural Novel Creation" held in Dalian that year, and promoted it as a representative work of "writing middle characters". However, in 1964, the "left-leaning" trend of thought prevailed in the literary and art circles, and China comprehensively criticized the "theory of the middle character". Lai Jie of Xirong became the "black model" of "the theory of middle figures", and was regarded as shaping backward figures and reconciling class struggle, and was labeled as "poisonous weeds". During the "Cultural Revolution", Sister Lai became a major crime of Xirong and was criticized.