Beijing News On February 5, the WeChat public account of the Beijing Federation of Literary and Art Circles published an obituary. Comrade Chen Rong, a member of the Communist Party of China and a professional writer of the Beijing Federation of Literary and Art Circles, died at 9:00 on February 4, 2024 due to illness and ineffective treatment. Fen died in Beijing at the age of 88. The full text is as follows:
Obituary
Comrade Chen Rong, a member of the Communist Party of China and a professional writer of the Beijing Federation of Literary and Art Circles, died in Beijing at 9:00 on February 4, 2024, at the age of 88, due to ineffective medical treatment.
According to Comrade Chen Rong's wishes during his lifetime, the funeral was kept simple, no farewell ceremony, no memorial service or any form of memorial service was held, and there was no mourning hall at home.
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Beijing Federation of Literary and Art Circles
February 5, 2024
Comrade Chen Rong’s biography
Chen Rong, female, was born in Hankou, Hubei in October 1935. Her ancestral home is Wushan County, Chongqing. She is a member of the Communist Party of China. She graduated from the Beijing Russian Institute (now the Beijing foreign language university). He started working in March 1951 and served successively as an external translator and editor at the Central People's Broadcasting Station, and a teacher at Beijing No. 5 Middle School. In August 1980, he joined the Beijing Writers Association as a professional writer, with first-level literary creation, and enjoyed special government subsidies from the State Council. Representative of the Fifth National Congress of Chinese Women, member of the fifth National Committee of the Chinese Writers Association and honorary member of the sixth and seventh sessions.
Comrade Chen Rong is a famous writer and screenwriter. He began literary creation in the 1970s. He published his first novel "Eternal Youth" in 1975 and his novel "Light and Darkness" in 1978. In 1979, the novella "Always Spring" was published in "Harvest" magazine, which was edited by Mr. Ba Jin. Mr. Mao Dun praised the work in his speech at the Fourth Literary Congress, calling it "a preliminary development of the novella." representative of prosperity.
Comrade Chen Rong adheres to the principle of realism in creation and has the courage to touch on real issues. His works have a strong sense of the times. In 1980, he published the novella "Middle Age", which quickly attracted widespread attention both inside and outside the literary world. The novel successfully creates a typical image of new socialists represented by ophthalmologist Lu Wenting, and expresses the living situation and mental journey of intellectuals in the period of social change. The writer keenly touched upon a social issue of great significance to the times, demonstrated his artistic conscience and courage, and aroused the whole society's attention to intellectual issues. "Middle Age" won the first prize of the first National Outstanding Novella Award and was named one of the "40 Most Influential Novels in China's 40 Years of Reform and Opening Up". The film of the same name won the 3rd China Film Golden Rooster. Award and the Best Feature Film Award at the 6th Popular Film Hundred Flowers Award. Chen Rong himself also won the Outstanding Screenplay Award at the 5th Little Hundred Flowers Award for this film. Comrade Chen Rong created a lot throughout his life, and his published works include the novels "Ten Years Less" and "Too Too Lazy to Get Married", etc., which are included in "Collected Works of Chen Rong".
Comrade Chen Rong spent her childhood and adolescence in a state of wandering. Her life had ups and downs and many twists and turns, but this also cultivated her tough character and unyielding spirit, allowing her literary works to face the real world. , has deep and profound humanistic care, and the many characters it has created have attracted widespread attention from society.
Comrade Chen Rong’s life was full of care and thinking about life and society. She spent her whole life examining our era, and used literary language to display her thoughts about life and society in a series of literary works. , left us with very precious spiritual wealth. Chen Rong's literary spirit inspired subsequent scholars and made a very important contribution to the development of contemporary literature.
editor Chen Yanting
