Hello everyone, I am Chen Tao, a volunteer tour guide at Xiamen Museum. Today I want to tell the story of a revolutionary female writer who fights with a pen - Moye .
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Moye is the eldest daughter in the family. She was favored by her father and brother since she was a child. She was praised as a talented woman in the village for writing poetry at the age of ten. In 1932, Moye moved to Gulangyu, Xiamen with his father and studied at Ciqin Girls' High School, which had once left the famous alumni such as Lin Qiaozhi and Zhou Shuan. During this period, Moye used novels as a weapon to satirize the feudal family being kicked out of the house by his father. With the help of his grandmother and brother, he was able to continue his studies. He published his debut work "My Hometown" in the Xiamen Daily. At the end of 1933, shortly after the outbreak of Incident in Fujian, Chen Haitian, a Chinese teacher and underground party member, organized Moye and several classmates to establish the revolutionary publication "Mars", which published Moye's first novel, "Rickshawman", which sympathized with the hard life of the coachman. After the failure of the Fujian Incident, the Kuomintang authorities confiscated and burned down the Mars publication. With the help of his grandmother, Moye escaped from his father's surveillance and took the 18 silver dollar given by his mother to travel far away to Shanghai.
11934, Moye went to Shanghai Women's Monthly as editor and editor-in-chief. "Women's Monthly" has always been aimed at promoting the women's movement and promoting women's awakening. Moye worked hard to strive for women's liberation and freedom with a serious enlightenment attitude. The progressive tendency of the publication has been further strengthened. Famous people such as Guo Moruo and Xia Yan have submitted manuscripts. Moye himself has also created a large number of poems, novels and scripts to promote women's liberation, and in 1936, he published the one-act drama "Before Dinner" under the pseudonym of "Chen Baibing". Against the backdrop of the climax of the anti-Japanese national salvation movement , Moyer returned to his hometown at the end of October and organized his sister-in-law and second sister-in-law to establish an anti-Japanese women's literacy class to promote women's liberation, teach anti-Japanese songs, and influenced his elder brother Chen Weng to carry out anti-Japanese activities as the principal of Juying Primary School.
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Lugou Bridge Incident broke out, Moye and dramatist Zuo Ming organized the fifth team of the Shanghai National Rescue Drama, participated in the Shanghai "August 13" Songhu Anti-Japanese War propaganda, and went to Xi'an through Suzhou, Bengbu , Kaifeng , Zhengzhou and other places. Along the way, he carried out anti-Japanese propaganda mainly in drama activities, aroused the patriotism of the masses with the atrocities of the Japanese army and the suffering of the people. During the performance in Xi'an, the anti-Japanese national salvation drama "Scholars" was published in the Xijing Daily.
111, with the help of the Eighth Route Army Office in Xi'an, the Fifth Team of the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Drama broke through the blockade of the Kuomintang and arrived in Yan'an, becoming the first literary and artistic group to arrive in Yan'an at that time and in the rear. At this time, Moye, who was only 19 years old, had grown into a female soldier who fought against Japan and saved the country. In Yan'an, Moye entered the Chinese People's Anti-Japanese Military and Political University and studied at the Lu Xun Academy of Arts, and participated in the creation of the film "Defend Hometown" and the three-act play "Da Dan River", which was highly praised by the central leaders.
11938, the passionate Moye created the lyrics of the glorious future generations, "Ode to Yan'an", composed by the Korean classmate Zheng Lucheng , which expressed the strong will of the Chinese people to fight against the Japanese army and their love for the revolutionary holy land of Yan'an. It spread throughout the anti-Japanese base areas, and even to the Kuomintang-controlled area, and behind the enemy. Until After the founding of New China, "Ode to Yan'an" was listed as a relic by various large-scale literary and artistic evenings, becoming an important repertoire of revolutionary education and an important witness to national history. It inspires the Chinese people to fight and strive for unity and progress, and is still popular.
After that, Moye followed He Long to the anti-Japanese frontline in North China to engage in publicity work, and was praised by He Long as "the outstanding female writer of 120 division ".After liberation, Moye served as the editor-in-chief of the People's Army Daily, deputy editor-in-chief of the " Gansu Daily " and vice chairman of the " Gansu Federation of Literary and Art Circles". He went through a glorious life from the " Xiamen spark to the hymn of Yan'an.
References:
● Ye Maozhang: "The Song has not stopped - The Biography of Moye", Xinhua Publishing House, January 2018 edition.
