Korean poet Yin Dongzhu

19 17 years130 February, Yin Dongzhu was born in Mingdong Village, Helong County, Jilin Province, China (now Mingdong Village, Longjing City, Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture). His uncle Jin was a famous anti-Japanese enlightenment activist and educator in the border area between China and North Korea in Tumen River at that time. He devoted himself to education. In order to enlighten the children of Korean immigrants in China and spread anti-Japanese thoughts to them, he founded Mingdong Primary School, Mingdong Middle School and Mingdong Girls' School in Mingdong Village, Longjing City. From 1908 to 1925, these schools trained more than a thousand students and made indelible contributions to Longjing area, which started from Mingdong Village and later became the education center of Beijian Island (namely Yanbian area). From these students, many people with lofty ideals engaged in the anti-Japanese movement appeared later, and they played an important role in a series of anti-Japanese struggles in Yanbian area at that time and later. Weng Jingna, known as the father of movies in Korea and South Korea, and Yin Dongzhu, the poet to be investigated in this paper, also appeared.

In his early years, Yin Dongzhu and his cousin Song Mengkui were baptized by Christianity together. He received primary education in his hometown and studied at Myeongdong Primary School and Enzhen Middle School (a Christian school in Longjing) in the Korean immigration system. In the meantime, I went to Dalazi, ten miles away from Mingdong, and studied in the sixth grade of a school founded by China people. 1September, 935, Yin Dongzhu transferred to Shi Chong Middle School in Pyongyang. At the end of March the following year, Shi Chong Middle School was closed by the Japanese colonial authorities because teachers and students refused to pay homage. 1938, 22-year-old Yin Dongzhu graduated from Guangming Middle School in his hometown. In April, he entered Yan Xi College in Seoul to study liberal arts, and began to stay there for three years.

Yin Dongzhu likes literature and poetry since he was a child. The first poems he can find at present are Life and Death, A Candle and No Tomorrow, written in 1934, when he was 18 years old. 194 1 year, due to the Pacific War, the school shortened the academic system, and the fourth-grade students of Yan Xi College graduated three months earlier. Yin Dongzhu edited his 19 poems into a collection of poems of his own choice-poems of heaven, wind and stars. He planned to publish 70 volumes, but failed to do so. He copied this book of poems into three volumes and gave them to his teacher Li Yanghe and his friend Zheng respectively. Later, Selected Poems published in Korea was based on this manuscript collected by Zheng.

At the end of this year, his family had to give in to the so-called Zhuang family name change policy of the Japanese colonial authorities against their wishes, and changed their surname to Hiranuma, that is, the Japanese surname. To this end, Yin Dongzhu also wrote a poem called Confessions to express the painful mood brought by this incident.

After arriving in Japan, I first entered the English Department of Literature and Art Department of Li Jiao University in Tokyo, and then transferred to the English Department of Kyoto Tongshe University. During this period, Yin Dongzhu sent five poems, such as Poems Easy to Write, to a friend in Seoul, which is the last batch of poems he can find now.

1In July, 943, my cousin Song Mengkui, who was also studying in Tokyo at that time, was arrested by the Japanese police on suspicion of engaging in the independence movement and was detained at the Xia Ya police station in Kyoto. On July 14, when he was about to go home to visit relatives, Yin Dongzhu was also arrested on suspicion of engaging in the independence movement and was detained in the Xia Ya police station. 1944 In March, Yin Dongzhu was sentenced by the Kyoto District Court to two years' imprisonment, including 65,438+020 days' detention, on the grounds that he engaged in the independence movement and violated Article 5 of the Public Security Law as amended in194/kloc-0. In April, Song Mengkui was also accused of the same crime as Yin Dongzhu, and was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, and the detention period could not be counted. In this way, Yin Dongzhu and his cousin Song Mengkui were both detained in Fukuoka Labor Camp.

1February 1945, Yin Dongzhu's family received a telegram saying: "Dongzhu died on February 16, so he came to collect the body." . Yin Dongzhu's father rushed to Fukuoka reform-through-labour camp, ordered Yin Dongzhu's body, cremated it, and took the ashes back to his hometown Longjing. Yin Dongzhu's father visited Song Mengkui after he arrived in Japan. At this time, Song Mengkui was injected with an unknown name every day and was skinny. He died in prison on March 10. Now, some researchers point out that Yin Dongzhu Song Like Monquez died in human experiments.

A Japanese guard told Yin Dongzhu's father, "Mr. Dongzhu shouted before he died, but he didn't understand what he was shouting." On March 6th, Yin Dongzhu's ashes were buried in Longjing Dongshan Church Cemetery. At the funeral, his friends recited his poems "Self-portrait" and "New Road" published in Wenyou magazine before his death.

When Yin Dongzhu died with a grievance, it was only six months before the Japanese defeated and surrendered.