1. Mu Dan had a very strong consciousness of saving the nation. “Once, when the society boycotted Japanese goods, Mu Dan would not let his mother buy kelp and jellyfish skin to eat, because at that time, most of these seafood were imported from Japan. If he bought it, he would not only eat it, but also throw it away in the end. Therefore, even the uncles in the big family said that Mu Dan was a red element and gave him three points. ”

2 ."There is light, there is heat." Since his youth, Lu Xun's words have become Mu Dan's favorite saying.

3. "A person always leaves footprints when he comes to the world." It is said that this is what Mu Dan himself often said to others and himself.

Mu Dan (1918-1977), formerly known as Zha Liangzheng, once used the pen name Liang Zhen, was born in Tianjin, and his ancestral home is Yuanhua Town, Haining City, Zhejiang Province. Patriotic poet and translator.

After graduating from Southwest Associated University in 1940, he stayed at the school to teach. In 1949, he went to the United States to study in the Department of English Literature at the University of Chicago. Received a Master of Arts degree in 1952. After returning to China in 1953, he served as associate professor in the Foreign Languages ??Department of Nankai University. In 1958, he suffered political persecution and was transferred to library work. Died of a heart attack in 1977.

In the 1940s, Mu Dan published three collections of poems: "Explorers", "Mu Dan's Collected Poems (1939-1945)", and "Flags", which combined Western European modernism and Chinese poetry tradition, creating a rich poetic style. He is a representative poet of the "Nine-Leaf Poetry School" in terms of symbolic meaning and spiritual speculation. After the 1980s, many modern literature experts regarded him as the first person of modern poetry and a member of the Nine-leaf Poetry School. Foreign poetry translation work, the translated version has a greater influence on domestic translations.