Li Huiying's life story

In February of the third year of Qing Dynasty (19 1 1), he was born in Dajinjiatun, Yongji County, Jilin Province. 1in the summer of 927, he left his home in Shanghai and was admitted to the high school of the private Lida College in Shanghai. 65438-0929 entered the Chinese Department of China University. During this period, influenced by Xia Mianzun, Zhu Ziqing, Chen Wangdao, Shen Congwen and others, he read a lot of famous literary works at home and abroad, began to write novels, engaged in translation, and founded literary journals with his classmates, which laid a solid foundation for future literary creation. Zeng edited Sensen, Creation and Random Talk on Comics.

After the "September 18th Incident", he took an active part in the Shanghai people's anti-Japanese demonstrations and went to Nanjing to petition with patriotic students in Shanghai, demanding that the Kuomintang government stop the civil war and send troops to fight against Japan. 1932 65438+ 10, Li Huiying's first anti-Japanese short story "The Last Lesson" was published in the left-wing magazine Beidou edited by Ding Ling.

After The Last Lesson was published, Ding Ling asked Li Huiying to write a novel with the anti-Japanese struggle in Northeast China as the background. Based on the Wanbaoshan incident in dehui city in July of 193 1, he created the novel Wanbaoshan, which was listed as "Anti-Japanese War Creation Series" together with Zhang Tianyi's Gear and Yang Hansheng's Volunteer Army, and was published by Shanghai Hufeng Bookstore in March of 1933. Wanbaoshan was published two years earlier than Xiao Jun's Village in August, and is considered as the first anti-Japanese novel in China. This work was also praised by Zhou Yang, Mao Dun and others, which made the author gain a great reputation in the literary world and embarked on the road of anti-Japanese literary creation.

At the beginning of 1932, Li Huiying joined the Left League. After completing the creation of Wanbaoshan, he sneaked back to the northeast at the end of July and went to Jilin, Changchun, Harbin, Shenyang, Dalian and other places to conduct field visits to the occupied homeland. After returning to Shanghai at the end of September, according to what he saw and heard in his hometown, he wrote a large number of novels and essays on anti-Japanese themes, and successively published three collections of short stories: Two Brothers, Harvest Year and Tales on Earth. The short story "Harvest Year" is about the countryside in Songliao Plain. Under the bumper harvest year, Sun San, a hardworking and simple farmer, was ruthlessly trampled by the Japanese invaders, and resolutely let his sons take up arms and join the volunteers to fight to the death with the Japanese robbers. Li Huiying also wrote essays such as Back to My Hometown-Jilin-In Harbin, Nanman Line and Airport Line, which were included in his second collection of essays, The Return of the Native. He once recalled that he was "writing anti-Japanese works with profound hatred." After joining the Left League, he was assigned to work in the Shanghai Anti-imperialist League and taught at Zhang Quan Middle School in Shanghai.

1936, Li Huiying moved to Peiping with his family, and wrote a lot of communications and essays exposing the collusion between traitors and Japanese aggressors, which was included in his third collection of essays, Regeneration Collection. At this time, he became one of the leaders of Peiping Leftist League, joined Peiping Writers Association, served as the first executive member of Peiping Writers Association from 65438 to 0936, and edited the supplement of Beiping New Newspaper Literature Weekly.

After the July 7th Incident, Li Huiying threw himself into the torrent of the anti-Japanese struggle. /kloc-in the winter of 0/937, he joined the "Battlefield Student Corps" and went to Shandong, Henan and other places to publicize the Anti-Japanese War. /kloc-at the end of 0/938, he went to Wuhan to join the All-China Anti-Japanese Literary Federation and edited Anti-Japanese Literature and Art.. 1May, 939, following the "Writers' Battlefield Visiting Group" organized by the Anti-Japanese Federation of Literary and Art Circles, he visited anti-Japanese soldiers in Zhongtiaoshan, Henan. Based on the materials obtained from this visit to the front, he wrote many literary works reflecting the life and struggle of the soldiers and civilians at the front of the Anti-Japanese War, which were published in the collection of short stories Spark Night Attack and Prose and Gu Yedian. At this time, Li Huiying is planning to write another novel with anti-Japanese theme. Through the introduction of friends, he went to the three armed forces to do secretarial work, paid attention to collecting materials, and began to write novels. From1May 1942 to1Winter 1944, the novel On the Songhua River was finally completed. This work is about a mountain village on the Songhua River. Most of the residents are immigrants from Shandong. They cultivate land and set up family businesses. After "September 18th", the Japanese invaders occupied the mountain village and ran roughshod over it, forcing good farmers to organize volunteers and jointly surround the county town, ready to deal a heavy blow to the enemy.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he successively served as a professor at Northeast Changchun University and Northeastern University (now Northeast Normal University). 1950 settled in hong kong and made a living by writing. After 1963, he taught in the School of Oriental Languages of the University of Hong Kong and the United College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong as a lecturer and head of the Chinese Department, and was appointed honorary president of the China Society. He never lost himself in the writing of the theme of the Anti-Japanese War, and with strong perseverance, he completed the creation of the second "Man" and the third "Frontline" of the trilogy of "Three Capitals" in the Anti-Japanese War. He also edited Hot Wind, Literary World, Pen Club and other publications, and published academic works such as China Modern Literature History and China Novel History. In addition to teaching and writing, he also edited literary and artistic publications such as Hot Wind, Literary World and Pen Club. After 1976, I stayed at home for illness, but I still didn't write it. 1984 joined the Chinese Writers Association, 12 went to Beijing to attend the Fourth Writers' Congress of the Chinese Writers Association.

199 1 May 1 died in Hong Kong at the age of 80.