Prose creation is often active in the 1930 s. What year does the prose year refer to?

Prose creation is often active in the 1930 s. What year does the prose year refer to?

After 1934, semi-monthly magazines such as Human Life, Taibai, Heart Talk Forest, Fan Wen Essay, Mangzhong and Northwest Wind appeared in competition.

At the same time, such names as "scientific essays", "historical essays", "humorous essays" and "satirical essays" have appeared, so that people call 1934 the year of essays or essays magazines.

The content, writing method, value and trend of the article have always been a hot topic of discussion. Lin Yutang advocates that essays are "self-centered, with leisure as the style" (Shi Shuo Xin Yu), and those essays written by Lin Yutang and Zhou Zuoren are their representatives.

Essay is a genre of prose, and its content is often the information conveyed to readers by the author through reflection in life. The content and subject matter are not limited. Essay is a kind of short prose with lyrical and ironic meaning.

It has a long history and diverse styles in China. Many prefaces and postscripts, biographies and letters with strong feelings and beautiful and vivid language in ancient times can be counted as prose. The naming of essays did not begin in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

The word sketch, from Buddhism, originally refers to an abridged version of Buddhist scriptures. Compared with famous works, short essays are different in length, not in theme or genre.

The word prose was later applied to the field of literature, and there was no strict and clear definition. All articles such as short stories can be called essays.