Who is Zhou Libo?

Zhou Libo (1908-1979), formerly known as Zhou Shaoyi, also known as Zhou Fenwu. A native of Yiyang, Hunan Province, an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China, a famous modern Chinese writer and compiler.

On August 9, 1908, Zhou Libo was born in Qingxi Village, Dengshiqiao, Yiyang County (now Heshan District) (for his hometown, he once wrote a poem, "There is no stream in Qingxi, and the grass on Tiancheng Road is miserable." The big trees on the mountainside are howling in the wind, and the motorcycles outside the village are chirping to each other.") A family of private school teachers.

In the autumn of 1924, he was admitted to Changsha Provincial No. 1 Middle School. Under the influence of his teachers Wang Jifan and Xu Teli, he pursued progress in his thinking and loved new literature. After the failure of the first great revolution, he dropped out of school and returned to the county to teach in a high school. In the spring of 1928, he followed Zhou Qiying (Zhou Yang) to Shanghai, and was admitted to the Department of Economics of Jiangwan Labor University to study and participate in the activities of the Revolutionary Mutual Aid Association. In the spring of 1930, he was expelled from the school for distributing leaflets. Soon he returned to his hometown and began to engage in literary writing and translation.

In 1931, after the "September 18th Incident", he worked as a proofreader at Shanghai Shenzhou Guoguang Society. In 1932, he was arrested and imprisoned for participating in a workers' strike. He was released on bail in July 1934. Later, he joined the Chinese Left-wing Writers Alliance in Shanghai. Joined the Communist Party of China in January 1935. Responsible for editing the secret journal of the Left Federation, serving as a member of the Communist Party of China League of Leftists, and editor of the supplement "Weekly Literature" of "Current Affairs News". He was actively engaged in the left-wing literary and artistic movement, and translated "Virgin Land Reclaimed" and "Secret China", translating nearly one million words.

In 1937, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he went to the Eighth Route Army's forward headquarters on the Anti-Japanese Front in North China and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region to participate in the Anti-Japanese War. He served as a field reporter and wrote reportage and essays. In the winter of 1938, he went to Yuanling, Hunan to participate in underground party leadership work and edited the Anti-Japanese War Daily. In May 1939, he was transferred to Guilin by Zhou Enlai and served as editor of "National Salvation Daily" and as a preparatory committee member of the Guilin branch of the All-China Literary and Art Circles Anti-Enemy Association. He arrived in Yan'an in December of the same year and served as director of the Compilation Department and teacher of the Literature Department of Lu Xun College of Arts and Letters. He was elected as an executive member of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region Cultural Circles National Salvation Association and a director of the Yan'an Branch of the All-China Literary and Art Circles Anti-Enemy Association. In 1942, he participated in the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art. In 1944, he served as deputy director of the supplement department of the "Liberation Daily" and editor-in-chief of the literary supplement. In the winter of the same year, he served as secretary of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army's first southward detachment and accompanied the army on the southern expedition.

In 1945, after the surrender of the Japanese invading army, he served as the deputy director of the "Qiqi Daily" and "Zhongyuan Daily" of the Central Plains Military Region. After 1946, he was transferred to the Northeast and served successively as the Propaganda Committee member of the Central *** District Committee and the Director of the Propaganda Department of the Songjiang Provincial Committee. He participated in the land reform movement and edited the "Songjiang Peasant Newspaper". In 1947, he began to create his most important work "The Storm". In 1948, he was transferred to the editor-in-chief of the Northeast Literary Association's "Literary Front". In July 1949, he was elected as a member of the All-China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the All-China Federation of Literary and Art Circles.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he successively served as the director of the research office of Shenyang Lu Xun Art Institute, the head of the editorial office of the Ministry of Culture of the Government Affairs Council, the chairman of the Hunan Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the party secretary of the Communist Party of China. He was elected He was a deputy to the first, second, and third National People's Congress, a member of the Fifth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and was continuously elected as a member of the All-China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and a director of the Chinese Writers Association. He is also an editorial board member of "People's Literature" and the chief editor of "Hunan Literature."

His novel "The Storm" and the film "Liberated China" in which he participated in the screenwriting and filming have won the Stalin Literature Prize, and "Night on the Xiangjiang River" won the first prize for national short stories; Zhou Libo is also a An outstanding socialist native literature writer; from 1955 to 1965, he returned to his hometown and wrote the novel "Great Changes in Mountains and Villages" and more than 20 native short stories, creating a new theme and new style of native literature, which was closely related to the famous writers of the same period. Writer Zhao Shuli enjoys the reputation of "Southern Zhou and Northern Zhao".

On September 25, 1979, Comrade Zhou Libo passed away in Beijing due to illness; he published "Zhou Libo's Short Stories", "Zhou Libo's Prose Collection", "Zhou Libo's Selected Works", "Zhou Libo's Collected Works", etc.; Comrade Zhou Libo On the road of revolutionary literature for more than 40 years, he is a writer, scholar, and warrior. He has created more than 3 million words of works in his lifetime. His works are profound and popular among the people; he recorded them with a sincere style. The social progress after the founding of New China has a distinct sense of the times.

Main works

"The Storm"

"The Storm" is a classic work that reflects the land reform alongside Ding Ling's "The Sun Shines on the Sanggan River".

The story is set in a village called Yuanmaotun on the banks of the Songhua River in Northeast China. It depicts the magnificent revolutionary struggle of land reform and breaks through thousands of years of feudal production relations in rural China. The earth-shaking changes that have taken place in the shackles of society are displayed in front of readers, and the revolutionary spirit of Chinese farmers who broke through the feudal trap and ran quickly towards the road of liberation under the leadership of the Communist Party was enthusiastically praised.

"The Great Change in the Mountain Country"

"The Great Change in the Mountain Country" (comic book) "The Great Change in the Mountain Country" can be said to be the sequel to "The Storm", although one is written about the land in the Northeast. Reform, one writes about the agricultural cooperative movement in the mountainous countryside of Hunan - they were two "storms" in rural China.

The novel focuses on an in-depth description of a secluded mountain village and the extremely profound and extensive changes caused by the agricultural cooperative movement - the economic foundation of private ownership, ancient social customs, and family life that lasted for several decades. As well as relationships between people, etc., they were completely overturned in a short period of time. The author uses delicate self-criticism and a friendly countryside atmosphere to portray the images of several revolutionary cadres and farmers. Among them, Deng Xiumei, Li Yuehui, Chen Zaichun, Sheng Youting, etc., each has their own distinctive character and characteristics, leaving a lasting impression on people. Deeply impressed.

The comic book of the same name created by the famous comic book artist He Youzhi based on this novel can also be called a classic.