魏巍的饮誉文坛、知名于海内外,是在1951年他的朝鲜战地通讯《谁是最可爱的人》发表之后,因此,人们都一致认为《谁是最可爱的人》是他的成名之作。魏巍之所以能够获得这样的成功绝非偶然。在《谁是最可爱的人》发表之前,他已从事文学创作十多年了。抗日战争时期,在晋察冀根据地,魏巍就已经是成果显著,颇有名气的诗人了。当时,他以“红杨树”为笔名写了不少诗歌还有一些散文,他的1500多行的长诗《黎明风景》还获晋察冀边区鲁迅文学奖。当时,魏巍是边区文化工作者协会的常委、与田间、邵子南等并肩战斗。他还是“铁流社”的主要成员之一,与钱丹辉等人负责编辑《诗战线》,魏巍是晋察冀文艺运动的活跃分子,是边区新诗运动的播种人之一。一些研究、评论魏巍的文章,多是从他1937年参加八路军之后的文学活动谈起,没有涉及他以前的作品。1984年,魏巍少年时代的诗友周启祥同志在北京图书馆找到了魏巍参军前写于1937年10月的500多行的长诗《黄河行》,该诗于1985年收入《魏巍诗选》中,这是目前我们在魏巍作品集中看到的他的最早的作品。但是他的创作活动并非从1937年开始,而是早在1932年。他在上小学及师范学校时阅读了大量五四以来的进步书刊,并开始文学创作。在郑州、开封、漯河等地的刊物上发表诗歌与小说,并先后在郑州报刊上主编过《芦笛》《苗圃》《铁笛》、等文学副刊。是三十年代郑州进步文学团体《劲风文艺社》的主要成员之一。周启祥同志是了解魏巍少年时代情况的为数不多的老同志之一。这些年来,他曾到各地有关报社和各大图书馆作了大量的查证,收集的工作。他写的《魏巍创作年谱》即将问世,现将周启祥同志所写的魏巍参加八路军以前的创作年谱及少年时代的一些活动刊登于此,以飨读者,并给研究魏巍的同志提供一点资料。 Wei Wei’s reputation in the literary world, well-known at home and abroad, was published in his “Who is the Most Cute People” in his Korean Battlefield Communication in 1951? Therefore, people all agree that “who is the most lovable person” is his fame. It is no accident that WEI Wei was able to achieve such success. He has been engaged in literary creation for more than a decade before his publication of Who’s the Most Cute? During the War of Resistance against Japan, Wei Jin was already a remarkable and well-known poet in the Jin-Cha-Ji base area. At that time, he wrote a lot of poems and prose with “Poplar Tree” as his pen name. His long poem “Dawn Scenery” by more than 1,500 lines was also awarded the Luxun Literary Award of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region. At that time, Wei Wei was a member of the Border Cultural Workers’ Association and fought side by side with the field and Shao Znan. He is also one of the main members of “Tieluoshe”, and Qian Danghui and others are responsible for editing the “poetic front.” Wei Wei is an active member of the Jinchaji literary movement and one of the sowers of the New Poetry Movement in the border areas. Some of the research and reviews on Wei Wei’s articles are mostly based on the literary activities that followed his participation in the Eighth Route Army in 1937 and did not address his previous works. In 1984, Comrade Zhou Qixiang, a poet friend of Wei Wei’s youth, found the long line of “The Yellow River” written by Wei Wei in Beijing Library in October 1937, which was written in October 1937 in the “Wei Wei Poetry Selection” in 1985 This is the earliest work we have seen in Wei Wei’s works. But his creative activity did not start in 1937, but back in 1932. When he was in elementary school and normal school, he read a large number of progress books since the May Fourth Movement and started his literary creation. Published in Zhengzhou, Kaifeng, Luohe and other publications on poetry and novels, and has successively edited in Zhengzhou, “Reed Flute” “nursery” “Tiedi”, and other literary supplement. Is one of the main members of the “Breeze Art Society” in the progressive literature group of the 1930s. Comrade Zhou Qixiang is one of the few old comrades who understands the situation of Wei Wei in his youth. Over the years, he has done a great deal of work in verifying and collecting newspapers and major libraries in various places. Wei Wei, written by Comrade Zhou Qixiang, now participated in the previous creations of the Eighth Route Army and some activities of his youth in his book “Wei Ching’s Creation of Chronicle”, which he published in this book to readers and to provide some commentary on Wei Wei’s work.