Zhao Lihong’s works Life

Gender: Male

Date of birth: 1951

Nationality: Han

Zhao Lihong is a young essayist and a member of the Democratic Progressive Party. A native of Chongming County, Shanghai. After graduating from high school in 1968, he returned to his hometown to join the army and worked as a carpenter, township postman, teacher and county government employee. In 1978, he was admitted to the Chinese Department of East China Normal University and began to write poetry and prose. After graduating from university, she worked as an editor of "Grudge" magazine. In 1987, Zhao Lihong applied to be a professional writer of the Shanghai Writers Association and a member of the Chinese Writers Association. He once served as vice chairman of Shanghai Youth Federation and member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Now he is the vice chairman of Shanghai Writers Association. He has published more than 30 poetry collections, prose collections, and reportage collections, including "Coral", "Life Grass", and "Heart Painting". His works have won dozens of awards, and "The Soul of Poetry" won the National Outstanding Prose Collection Award for the New Era.

Author of essay collections "Wind, You Old Piano Player", "Herb of Life", "Venus on the Beach", "Toddler", "Love in the World", "Poetry Soul" , "Selected Prose of Zhao Lihong", "Notes of an Islander", "Charm of Life", poetry collections "Coral", "Silent Holly", "151 Lyrical Poems", reportage collections "Heart Painting", "Bird Crazy", prose "Looking at the Moon" etc. His works have won dozens of awards, and "The Soul of Poetry" won the National Outstanding Prose Collection Award for the New Era. In the early 1980s, Zhao Lihong, who had become a member of the Chinese Writers Association, wrote an essay titled "The Soul of Poetry", telling his story with "Pushkin's Selected Lyric Poems" and expressing his nostalgia for the poet and his nostalgia for that gloomy era. Complex feelings. Bieren, a sinologist from the former Soviet Union and editor-in-chief of the Moscow Publishing House, translated this prose into Russian and introduced it to Russian readers. After the publication of his collection of essays "The Soul of Poetry", he won the China Outstanding Prose Collection Award for the New Era. The poem "China, My Dear Motherland" was composed into a symphony chorus, and also won the "Five Ones" Project Award from the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

Zhao Lihong: Books are eternal friends

According to common sense, professional writers make a living by writing. However, he has written more than 40 literary monographs such as prose, poetry, reportage, etc., and his works have won dozens of literary awards at home and abroad. He is a member of the 7th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, vice chairman of the Shanghai Writers Association, and contemporary The famous essayist Zhao Lihong has always felt that for herself, "writing is still amateur." He said: "As for my major, I only have reading." In the preface to the newly published book "Zhao Lihong's Reading Essays", Zhao Lihong once again confessed that "the greatest benefit and happiness is reading."

Zhao Lihong, who was born in Shanghai, has been a "bookworm" since he was a child. Reading never cares about time or place. "As long as you pick up an interesting book, you can get immersed in it and forget everything else." Zhao Lihong often reads while walking, eating, sleeping, and even reading in the toilet. From comic books, fairy tales, myths, to "Journey to the West", "Feng Shen Bang", "Water Margin", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Dynasties", to "Three Hundred Tang Poems", "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", "Yue" Zhao Lihong always felt that "these books are much more interesting than the history of schooling in textbooks" and "Notes from the Tiny Caotang" and "Dream of Red Mansions". He would often be fascinated by reading, and only a shout from an adult would wake him up from his dream.

From the upper grades of primary school to middle school, Zhao Lihong began to get in touch with modern Chinese literature and foreign literature. No matter what book he got, he read it. In addition to reading Lu Xun, Mao Dun, Ba Jin, and Bing Xin, he also read some foreign literary masterpieces that his high school sister borrowed from the library, such as " Anna Karenina", "Don Quixote" and "Resurrection", "War and Peace", "Les Misérables" and "Monte Cristo", "Johan Christophe", etc. In particular, Zhao Lihong was even more excited about a new poetry collection published by Pingming Publishing House that he found in a second-hand bookstore in Shanghai. This new collection of poems is all Pushkin's poems, translated by Zha Liangzheng, and published in 1955. They became Zhao Lihong's favorite books in middle school. It can be said that Zhao Lihong's later poetry writing had a lot to do with reading these poetry collections. Zhao Lihong cherished these books very much. In order to reduce wear and tear, he carefully wrapped the covers with transparent paper, but they were still very worn by Zhao Lihong.

Zhao Lihong later recalled that at that time, "I read a lot and miscellaneously. I read in a hurry and read without any structure. However, it was through this kind of reading that I broadened my horizons, increased my knowledge, and made me fall deeply in love with Literature."

After graduating from high school, Zhao Lihong left urban Shanghai to "jump in and settle down" on Chongming Island. Among the few printed books in his simple luggage, there was a copy of "Weeds". In reality, many novels often feel fresh when they are read for the first time, but boring after the second time. However, a book like "Weeds" allows Zhao Lihong to "read it over and over again" because reading such a book "allows you to revisit it over and over again and taste new charms from time to time." At that time, Zhao Lihong thought, "If Mr. Lu Xun There are not more than a dozen thick books, but only a thin "Weeds". He is also an amazing writer."

During the long years of "jumping in the queue to settle down" in the countryside, Zhao Lihong "had. I felt helpless and had a bleak future." But it was those books that he spent day and night with Zhao Lihong that changed his view on life. Under an uncertain oil lamp, it was the book that accompanied him "through many warm and pleasant times", which made him "gradually enriched and enriched", and it was also the book that "helped him choose his life goal".

When the college entrance examination was resumed in 1977, Zhao Lihong was admitted to the Chinese Department of East China Normal University with excellent results. In the university library, the good books for Zhao Lihong to choose from are like "flowers and plants in spring, so many are dazzling." After graduating in 1981, Zhao Lihong worked at "Sprouting". At that time, Zhao Lihong lived in Pudong , taking a bus through the Huangpu River Tunnel every day, it takes a long time to go to work in the city. Because "the time in the car is very difficult", Zhao Lihong makes use of the difficult time with a good book in hand every day. It turned into a happy moment. On the bus, Zhao Lihong could always concentrate on reading. No noise could disturb his mood. Even if someone squeezed him or pushed him, he would remain oblivious because he was "hiding in". A pleasant journey in the book."

He is the author of essay collections "Life Grass", "Love in the World", "Mystery of Maya", "Island Man's Notes", "Selected Prose of Zhao Lihong", " "Art", "Charm of Life", "Noise and Tranquility", "The Aftermath of Death", "On the Wasteland of Time", "Reading is Forever", "Aesthetic Dance", "The Shadow of the Sundial", There are more than 60 kinds of works including poetry collections "Coral", "Silent Holly", "151 Lyric Poems", "City of Vicissitudes", reportage collection "Heart Painting", etc. There are four volumes of "Zhao Lihong's Selected Works" published in the world. His works have won dozens of awards at home and abroad. The prose collection "The Soul of Poetry" won the China Outstanding Prose Collection Award for the New Era, and "The Shadow of the Sundial" won the first "Bing Xin Prose Award". Many prose works have been selected to be published all over the country and in Hong Kong and China. Chinese textbooks for universities, middle schools and primary schools in Singapore and Canada have a wide influence on readers. Among them, "Mountain Rain" and other books have been selected into primary school Chinese textbooks.