郭小川原名郭恩大,河北省丰宁县风山镇人。一九一九年九月二日出生于一个小资产阶级知识分子家里,父母亲都是教师,他从小就很喜爱诗文。一九三三年三月,在北平求学期间,曾积极参加抗日救亡运动,开始用郭苏、伟倜等笔名在当时的救亡刊物上发表抗日救国的诗歌。一九三七年九月,他“带着泪痕投入红色士兵的行列走上前线”,在八路军一二○师三五九旅政治部的“奋斗剧社”工作,同年十一月,加入中国共产党,担任过旅政治部宣 Guo Xiaochuan formerly known as Guo En, Fengning County, Fengshan County, Hebei Province. Born on September 2, 1919, at a home of petty-bourgeois intellectuals, both parents were teachers, and since he was a child, he loved poetry. In March 1933, during his study in Beiping, he actively participated in the anti-Japanese national salvation movement and began to publish the poems on anti-Japanese and salvation by using the pseudonyms of Guo Su and Wei Wei at that time. In September 1937, he “stepped into the front line with his tears in the ranks of Red Soldiers” and worked in the “Struggle Theater” of the Political Department of the Eighth Route Army for one hundred and twenty-three division. In November of the same year, he joined China Communist Party, served as brigade propaganda department