Author Xiao Hong's Profile

Xiao Hong (June 1, 1911 - January 22, 1942) was a modern Chinese female writer, one of the "Four Great Talents of the Republic of China", and known as the "Literary Goddess of the 1930s". Her birth name was Ronghua, and her school name was Zhang Xiuhuan, which was later changed to Zhang Ying by her maternal grandfather. She was also known by her pen names Xiao Hong, Quiet Yin, Ling Ling and Tian Di.

Born in 1911 to a landowner's family in the Hulan district of Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, she lost her mother at an early age, and in 1932, she met Xiao Jun. In 1933, she published her first novel, "Abandoned Child," under the pen name of Quiet Yin.

In 1935, with the support of Lu Xun, Xiao Jun published his first novel "The Field of Life and Death". 1936, he traveled to Japan and wrote the prose "Lonely Life" and the long poem "Grain of Sand". 1940, he arrived in Hong Kong with Duanmu Hongliang, and then published the middle grade novel "Mabule" and the long novel "Hulan River Biography", etc. On January 22nd, 1942, he died in Hong Kong at the age of 31, due to pulmonary tuberculosis and malignant airway dilatation. He died in Hong Kong at the age of 31.

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Xiao Hong's novels are characterized by a distinctive genre, creating a scenic fictional structure. The series of essays "Shang Shi Jie" was criticized as "incomprehensible" when it was published, because Xiao Hong used a lot of novel techniques, a form of writing that was unusually new in the 1930s. " (Xiao Jun, "Shang Shi Jie - After Reading").

In the history of modern Chinese novels, from Shang Shi Jie, The Field of Life and Death to Hulan He Zhuan, Xiao Hong broke the single narrative mode of traditional novels, created a fringe genre between novels, essays and poems, and formed a unique " Xiao Hong Style" novel text with her unique unconventional language, autobiographical narrative method, non-plotting structure and poetic style. Xiao Hong's novel style.

The development path of this novel genre is the loose culture of modern Chinese novels, which realizes the articulation and continuity of literary history in one aspect, and communicates modern literature and traditional literature in terms of aesthetic consciousness. More accurately, it is to realize a new docking between the elegant part of traditional literature, poetry and prose, and the part of modern literature that has replaced poetry and become the main body, the novel. It is this docking that has created the most vital content in modern literature.

Xiao Hong, with her own tragic life, feelings and life experience, looks at the life form and survival situation of the vernacular society she is familiar with, exposes and criticizes the weaknesses of the national nature, and writes about the tragedy of human beings, the tragedy of women, and the tragedy of human life in general, so that her novels acquire a strong and deep tragic meaning and unique and rich cultural connotation.

Xiao Hong's novels have unconventional stylistic language, which is poetic, straightforward and natural. Xiao Hong's creations mostly have the color of self-narrative biography, she does not write according to the rules of normal thinking, but uses an extremely natural and unfamiliar language to describe everything she is familiar with. Xiao Hong's unconventional use of language is both fresh and rusty, and at the same time straightforward and natural.

The frankness of Xiao Hong's language is firstly manifested in her frankness, and her unadorned language depiction of the poetic world when she looks at the world with her unique childish mind. The use of this unconventional language is becoming more and more mature in Xiao Hong's later creations. The spring sunshine of March in On the Oxcart, the flowers of June in The Back Garden, and the early spring fields in March in a Small Town are all the world in the eyes of a child, naturally made, and the characters and landscapes are not bound by the old forms.

At the same time, this frank language and show the characteristics of nature, she wrote the characters from the life of the distillation, living, no matter whether it is sad or happy can make readers produce **** song. Because of the bluntness, without pretense, pretense, it is more natural and simple, blunt and natural, these two characteristics naturally become one. This language is not deliberately carved traces, natural, contains a childish simplicity of beauty, a unique and mellow mood, thus becoming an important feature of the "Xiao Hong body" novel narrative style.

Xiao Hong is a female writer with a unique artistic style, with her works of sadness and happiness mixed emotional tone, strong and soft language style, as well as the use of a unique writing perspective and the handling of the structure of the line, in the history of literature is unique. Xiao Hong is a typical character of a young woman, who loves to toss and turn, and is unwilling to keep her job. Her life in general is miserable, short-lived, poor, and busy, and she left home at the age of nineteen, and never looked back, and only went back once in the middle of the journey.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia - Xiao Hong