Yu Guangzhong was born in Nanjing in 1928. His ancestral home is Yongchun, Fujian. My mother is originally from Wujin, Jiangsu Province, so she also calls herself a "Jiangnan native".

Graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages ??and Literatures of National Taiwan University in 1952. In 1959, he received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Iowa (LOWA) in the United States. He has taught at Soochow University, National Taiwan Normal University, National Taiwan University, and National Chengchi University. During this period, he was twice invited by the U.S. State Department to serve as a visiting professor at many universities in the United States. In 1972, he served as professor and director of the Department of Spanish at Chengchi University. From 1974 to 1985, he served as Director of the Chinese Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. From 1985 to present, he serves as professor and chair professor at National Sun Yat-sen University in Kaohsiung City. Among them, he served concurrently as the dean of the School of Liberal Arts and the director of the Institute of Foreign Languages ??for six years.

Yu Guangzhong has been engaged in poetry, prose, commentary, and translation all his life, and calls himself the "fourth-dimensional space" of his writing. He has been in the literary world for more than half a century, covering a wide range of topics, and is known as an "artistic polygamist." His literary career is long, vast and profound. He is a master of contemporary poetry, an important prose writer, a famous critic and an excellent translator. So far, 21 collections of poetry, 11 collections of essays, 5 collections of commentaries, 13 collections of translations, and more than 40 collections of literature have been published.

Yu Guangzhong’s poetry creation and translation works have been published by 15 publishing houses in mainland China, including Beijing People’s Daily Press, Guangzhou Huacheng Press, Changchun Times Literature and Art Press, and Anwei Education Press. Mr. Yu is also a senior editor and has edited important poetry publications such as "Blue Star", "Wenxing" and "Modern Literature". In the name of "Chief Editor", he edited ***15 volumes of Taiwan's "Modern Chinese Literature Series" from 1970 to 1989 (novel volumes, prose volumes, poetry volumes, drama volumes, and commentary volumes).

Yu Guangzhong enjoys a high reputation in the literary circles in Taiwan, overseas and mainland China. He has won all important awards in Taiwan including the "Wu Sanlian Literature Award", "China Times Award", "Golden Tripod Award", "National Literature and Art Award", etc. He has traveled to Europe and the United States many times to attend international PEN and other literary conferences and deliver speeches. He also came to the motherland many times to give lectures. For example, in 1992, he was invited by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences to give a lecture on "Gong Zizhen and Shelley"; in 1997, Changchun Times Literature and Art Publishing House published seven volumes of his poetry and prose anthology. He was invited to Changchun, Shenyang, Harbin, Dalian, and Beijing to give lectures on Reader signature. Jilin University and Northeastern University awarded the title of visiting professor. His famous poem "Nostalgia" was recited and performed at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala. "Selected Poems of Yu Guangzhong" is included in "People's Literature Publishing House and Beijing Book Catalog". In recent years, CCTV's "Reading Time", "Son of the East" and other columns have continuously recommended and reported on Mr. Yu Guangzhong to domestic audiences, which has had a great impact.

There are approximately one thousand reviews of Yu Guangzhong’s works at home and abroad. Books on Yu Guangzhong include "Phoenix Bathed in Fire" and "Brilliant Colorful Brush" edited by Huang Yaoliang and published by Taiwan Pure Literature Publishing House and Jiuge Publishing House respectively; "One Hundred Poems of Yu Guangzhong" published by Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House 》 (Selected Explanations of Liushahe) and other 5 kinds. The biography is published by Taiwan's Tianxia Vision Publishing Company, and is written by Fu Mengjun, "Children of Cornus officinalis - The Biography of Yu Guangzhong". His poetry collection "Legends of Lotus" was translated into German and published by German scholars in 1971. Many other poems and essays have been translated into foreign languages ??and published overseas.

Mr. Yu Guangzhong loves traditional Chinese culture and China. Praise "China, the most beautiful and motherly country". He said: "The upper reaches of blue ink is the Miluo River", "I want to be the descendant of Qu Yuan and Li Bai", "There is a tributary of the Yellow River in my bloodline". He is an outstanding poet and essayist in the Chinese literary world, and he is still in a "tug of war with eternity." Breathing is today, but it has entered history, and his name has been prominently engraved in the annals of Chinese new literature.