Chen Hui
Chen Hui, whose previous name is Wu Shenghui, comes from Heishanwei village, Changde county, Hunan Province. Born on September 2, 1920, he joined the Communist Party of China in Changde Senior High School at the age of 17. In 1938, he studied in Anti-Japanese Military and Political University in Yan’an. In September 1939, he was assigned to the Jinchaji News Agency. In May 1940, he worked in the anti-Japanese base area of Laizhuo County, serving as the director of the Laizhuo County, the secretary of the District Committee, the county executive member, and the political commissar of the county Armed Work Team. On February 8, 1945, he was captured and killed by the enemy.
In the autumn of 1932, Chen Hui was admitted to Changde Middle School. This school was the birthplace of the patriotic movement of Xiangxi students as the Party youth League had organized many patriotic activities here. In the fall of 1935, Chen Hui was directly admitted to high school. In the spring of 1936, his wrote an article entitled “Forward” and submitted it to Changde Press to be published. The article criticized the Kuomintang rulers with sharp language.
After the Lugou Bridge Incident broke out in 1937, Chen began writing poems with the pseudonym Chen Hui. He joined the Communist Party of China in February 1938. In May 1938, he enrolled in the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University in Yan’an.
In May 1939, Chen Hui was assigned to the anti-Japanese base area in Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei and began working as journalist. The leaders had intended to keep him in the editorial department of the Jinchaji Daily, but he refused. Instead, he insisted on going to the battlefield. Eventually, he got the leaders’ consent, and went to the front line, where he wrote a considerable amount of reports and poems that were published in newspapers and periodicals including the Jinchaji Daily, Mass Culture, Poetry Construction, Soldiers. His works enthusiastically conveyed patriotic ideas, exposed the brutality of the Japanese invaders, and praised the heroic achievements of the anti-Japanese army and people in the base area.
In 1943, Chen Hui served as secretary of the fourth District Party Committee and political commissar of the Armed Work Team. Chen Hui and Chen Lin made combined efforts to eliminate the Japanese traitors by formulating a plan to rely on the broad masses. They used the tactics “attracting the snake out of the hole” and “picking the curtain war”, dealing a heavy blow to the enemy and finally getting rid of the traitors and pseudo-police chief Zeng Chartist, who were stained with the blood of the people. The arrogance of the Japanese aggressors no longer existed. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Chen Hui led the military and political personnel to actively restore the Party organization, establish guerrilla groups, and control the two political powers, bringing rapid progress in the restoration work in the base areas.
During his short life, Chen Hui has produced more than 10,000 lines of poems, many of which were written on the village walls behind enemy lines, spread on the front lines of the war of Resistance, and became popular among the masses in Pingxi. In 1958, 40 of his poems and 170,000 words from his original manuscripts were selected by the Chinese Writers Publishing House to be published in the “Song for October”. In 1959, three of his poems, including “Song for the Motherland” and “Song for the Garden of Eden”, were selected into the Poems of Revolutionary Martyrs compiled by China Youth Publishing House. In the same year, Wei Wei, a famous poet and writer edited and included in his book more than ten of Chen’s poems, such as “Plain Notes”, “Go to Liuwa to see” and “General”. In 1981, the poem “the Song of October” was translated into Japanese and sent abroad by Ueao Ryusuke, a professor and linguist from Kyushu University in Japan.
Source: People’s Daily
英本213: 郭奕廷 柴子江 黄家璇 赵红 王展鹏
指导教师: 唐文丽