Song of Youth

Yang Mo (1914-1995), formerly known as Yang Chengye, used to be named Yang Junmo, Yang Mo, Yang Huimei, etc., and his pen names were Lu Jia, Xiaoguan, etc. His ancestral home is Xiangyin, Hunan, and he was born in Beijing. In 1928, she entered Beijing Wenquan Girls' Middle School. She dropped out of school due to her family's bankruptcy and worked as a primary school teacher and bookstore clerk. Published his debut novel in "Black and White" in 1934. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, she worked on women's work and newspaper editing in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border area. Since 1952, he has served as editor of the script creation and editing room of the Central Film Bureau and Beijing Film Studio. He has been a professional writer of the Beijing Federation of Literary and Art Circles since 1963, serving as vice chairman of the Beijing Writers Association and chairman of the Beijing Federation of Literary and Art Circles. Yang Mo's main works include "Song of Youth", "Reed Pond Chronicle", "Song of Fang Fei", "Song of Yinghua" (sequel to "Song of Youth"), "Confession - My Diary", "Not a Diary" Diary" etc.

The novel "Song of Youth" (first published by Writers Press in 1958) has wide influence at home and abroad. It writes about the lives of various young intellectuals from the "September 18th" incident to the "December 9th" movement. The road of life and the road of revolution, but because the protagonist of the novel was a person who was regarded as a petty bourgeoisie at the time, a huge discussion was launched after the publication of the work. Some people, dominated by "Left" concepts, severely criticized the author and the work, accusing the author of not allowing Lin Daojing to "be completely transformed", saying that "the book is full of petty bourgeois sentiments" and "is based on the petty bourgeois sentiment". From a bourgeois standpoint, they create their works as petty-bourgeois self-expression.” He also criticized: "The work does not describe the workers and peasants well, nor does it describe the integration of intellectuals with workers and peasants. The intellectuals described in the book, especially Lin Daojing, have not seriously implemented the integration with the workers and peasants from beginning to end." Although Mao Dun and He Qifang Other famous writers wrote articles defending "Song of Youth", but the criticism from "leftists" still made Yang Mo make major revisions to "Song of Youth". In order to make Lin Daojing's transformation more reasonable and convincing, seven chapters about Lin Daojing going to the countryside to "integrate with workers and peasants" were specially added. Yang Mo's approach and the revised "Song of Youth" have caused controversy between two different opinions, either affirmative or negative. During the "Cultural Revolution", "Song of Youth" was designated as a poisonous weed, and the author was labeled a counter-revolutionary writer. It was not until the "Gang of Four" was crushed that the author and his works were rehabilitated and brought to light.

"Song of Youth" is Yang Mo's first novel. The novel describes the tortuous process of how Lin Daojing, a "petty bourgeois intellectual", embarked on the revolutionary road and became a proletarian warrior. Lin Daojing embarked on the road of exile in order to find a personal way out and escape the fate of being a "plaything" and "vase" for men. She ran away from her family and went to Yangjiacun Primary School near Beidaihe to find relatives and work as a substitute teacher. However, the principal Yu Jingtang conspired to marry her off to a local dignitary. In desperation, she threw herself into the sea and committed suicide. She was rescued by Yu Yongze, a Peking University student who had been paying attention to her. Yu Yongze, the "poet and knight", awakened Lin Daojing's passion for life. Moved by Yu Yongze's love, she agreed to build a love nest with him. Lin Daojing, who had been lonely and helpless since she was a child, temporarily enjoyed the warmth of family. But she was unwilling to be supported by others. First she was frustrated in finding a job, and then she came into contact with the patriotic students of Peking University and was ideologically touched. After meeting Communist Lu Jiachuan, she began to come into contact with revolutionary ideas. Yu Yongze repeatedly prevented her from participating in revolutionary activities, leading to Lu Jiachuan's arrest. Lin Daojing woke up from a dream in the face of the painful facts, determined to leave the vulgar and selfish Yu Yongze and join the torrent of anti-Japanese and national salvation. From then on, under the guidance of revolutionaries, she gradually overcame her weakness and eventually became a mature proletarian revolutionary warrior.

"Song of Youth" mainly tells the story of the difficult and tortuous "suffering journey" of Lin Daojing, a young intellectual, from his personal resistance to family and society without succumbing to fate to finally throwing himself into the tide of the times and embarking on the road of revolution. "The vivid narrative of "September 18th" - "December 9th" (1931--1935) vividly shows the historical style of my country's student revolutionary movement and the spiritual outlook of all kinds of intellectuals in this specific historical period, thus Extract a revolutionary ideological theme: All intellectuals can only integrate their personal future with the destiny of the country and the people and the revolutionary cause of the people, plunge into the torrent of the times, and constantly transform their subjective world while transforming the objective world. , only then can there be a real future and way out, and only then can there be a beautiful youth that is truly worthy of praise.

Because the author is good at portraying characters in the whirlpool of sharp and fierce struggles, is good at showing different character traits through different characters’ different reactions to the same thing, is good at combining the characters’ appearance description and psychological portrayal, and is good at using rich and rich Describing and revealing the character's inner world with details of the character's characteristics, he is good at combining the changes in the character's personality with the changes in the character's fate. Through all these efforts, not only does the image of Lin Daojing become flesh-and-blood, real and touching, but also the character's character changes. Other characters in the work, such as Lu Jiachuan, Jiang Hua, Lin Hong, Yu Yongze, Dai Yu, Wang Xiaoyan, Bai Liping, etc., all appear vivid and vivid, with distinctive personalities. Although these images are more or less stereotyped, they are still It can show the writer's profound artistic skills in shaping characters. "Song of Youth" not only reflects the changing era, but also refines the ideological theme of the revolution through the description of Lin Daojing's personal destiny, encounters and destiny, as well as the description of various types of young intellectuals at that time. .

Abstract

"Song of Youth" is the first excellent work in the history of contemporary literature to describe the patriotic student movement and the struggle life of revolutionary intellectuals under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. Long novel. The author Yang Mo, whose original name is Yang Junmo, Yang Mo, pen name is Xiaohui. Born in Xiangyin County, Hunan Province, she is one of the famous contemporary female writers.

"Song of Youth" was published in 1958. It is a hymn that praises the party and revolution. The novel is based on the Peking student movement led by the Communist Party of China during the historical period from the September 18th Incident in 1931 to the December 9th Movement in 1935. It tells the story of Lin Daojing, an intellectual young man who embarked on the road of revolution. The arduous journey of the Communist Party of China vividly reveals the ideological division and differentiation of intellectuals in an era when class struggle and national contradictions were unprecedentedly fierce. It shows the historical path of China's revolutionary intellectuals and shows that young people can only follow the path of the Communist Party of China. The revolutionary path of leadership is the only correct path that combines the destiny of the individual with the destiny of the motherland.

About the author

Yang Mo (1914～1995) is a contemporary female writer. His original name is Yang Chengye, and his pen names are Yang Junmo and Yang Mo. His ancestral home is Xiangyin, Hunan, and he was born in Beijing. She studied at Wenquan Girls' High School, but dropped out of school due to family bankruptcy, and worked as a primary school teacher, tutor and bookstore clerk. He began literary creation in 1934 and published works, mostly essays and short stories reflecting the Anti-Japanese War. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, she went to Jizhong to participate in the guerrilla war led by the Communist Party of China and did women's and propaganda work. Since 1943, he has been the editor and supplement editor of newspapers such as Dawn Newspaper and Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Daily. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as screenwriter at Beijing Film Studio, vice chairman of Beijing Writers Association, director of China Writers Association, and member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. Her masterpiece "Song of Youth" is an excellent novel describing the patriotic student movement led by the Communist Party of China. It successfully created the artistic model of intellectual young Lin Daojing. The novel has a profound influence among readers, especially young students. It was adapted into a movie script by the author and made into a movie of the same name. Yang Mo's works also include the novella "Chronicles of the Reed Pond", short story selections "Red Mountain Flowers", "Selected Prose of Yang Mo", novels "Eastern Desire", "Song of Fang Fei", "Song of Wu Hua" ", long reportage "A Diary that is Not a Diary", "Confessions - My Diary", and "Collected Works of Yang Mo", etc.