Guo Yiwen is from Qianhetao Village, Weixian County, Shandong Province. In 1944, she went to the Rizhao Eighth Route Army Anti-Japanese Base in Shandong with his mother.

In 1945, she joined the Eighth Route Army and served as a member of the Luzhong Second Army Division Propaganda Team. In 1947, she was re-designated as a member of the Eighth Column Cultural Workers Regiment of the Third Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. She later served as the captain and actor of the Drama Team of the Twenty-Sixth Army.