Famous Chinese Writers and Their Works

Famous writers include Lu Xun, Mao Dun, Lao She, Bing Xin and Mo Yan.

1. Lu Xun

Lu Xun (September 25, 1881-October 19, 1936), formerly known as Zhou Zhangshou, later changed his name to Zhou Shuren, the word Yushan, and later changed to Yu Cai, "Lu Xun" is the pen name he used in 1918 when he published Diary of a Madman, and is his most influential pen name. Lu Xun" was the pen name he used when he published "Diary of a Madman" in 1918, and it was also his most influential pen name.

Lu Xun was a famous writer and thinker, an important participant in the May Fourth New Culture Movement, and the founder of modern Chinese literature. Mao Zedong once commented, "Lu Xun's direction is the direction of the new culture of the Chinese nation."

Lu Xun made significant contributions in many fields in his life, such as literary creation, literary criticism, ideological research, literary history research, translation, introduction of art theory, introduction of basic science, and proofreading and research of ancient books.

Lu Xun had a great influence on the intellectual and cultural development of Chinese society after the May Fourth Movement, and became famous in the world of literature, especially in the intellectual and cultural fields of South Korea and Japan, where he was known as "the writer who occupied the largest territory on the map of East Asian culture in the twentieth century".

Representative works include "Scream", "Indecision", "The Morning Flower and the Evening Gleanings", "Wild Grass", "The Collection of Huagai", and "A Brief History of the Chinese Novel", etc. He is also known as the author of "The Greatest Territory on the Map of East Asian Culture".

2, Mao Dun

Mao Dun (July 4, 1896 - March 27, 1981), formerly known as Shen Dehong, pen name Mao Dun, Lang Lian, Xuanzhu, Fangbibi, stopping the King, Po Prisoner, Weiming, Shen Zhongfang, Shen Mingfu, etc., the word Yanbing, Tongxiang City, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, a native. He is a famous modern Chinese writer, literary critic, cultural activist and social activist.

Mao Dun was born in a family with rather novel ideas and received a new-style education from a young age. He was admitted to the preparatory course of Peking University and worked in the Commercial Press after graduation, and from then on he embarked on the road of reforming Chinese literature and art. He was a pioneer of the New Culture Movement and one of the founders of Chinese revolutionary literature and art.

His masterpieces include the novels Ziyou, Spring Silkworms, and the literary criticism Night Reading Occasional Records.

3. Lao She

Lao She (February 3, 1899-August 24, 1966), formerly known as Shu Qingchun, also known by his pen names Jieqing, Honglai, and Feiye, was known as Sheyu. Because Lao She was born in the spring of the lunar calendar, his parents named him "Qingchun", which probably means "celebrating the coming of spring" and "good prospects".

After he went to school, he changed his name to Shu Sheyu, which means "giving up oneself", i.e. "forgetting oneself". He was a native of the Manchu Red Banner in Beijing. He is a modern Chinese novelist and writer, a master of language, a People's Artist, and the first writer in New China to be honored with the title of "People's Artist".

Representative works include "Camel Xiangzi", "The Four Together", and the play "Teahouse".

4, Bing Xin

Bing Xin (October 5, 1900 - February 28, 1999), female, formerly known as Xie Wanying, Changle, Fujian , China Association for Promoting Democracy (ADP) members.

Chinese poet, modern writer, translator, children's writer, social activist, essayist. His pen name Bingxin is taken from "a piece of ice in a jade pot".

In August 1919, Bing Xin published her first essay "Thoughts on the 21st Trial" and her first novel "Two Families" in the Morning Post.

Before and after he left China to study abroad in 1923, Bing Xin began to publish one after another correspondence essays with the general title of "Sending the Little Reader," which became the founding work of Chinese children's literature. In Japan, she was appointed as the first female foreign lecturer at the University of Tokyo, where she taught a course on "New Chinese Literature," and returned to China in 1951.

Bing Xin died at 21:12 on February 28, 1999, at the age of 99 in a Beijing hospital, and was called the "Elder of the Century".

Representative works include Spring Water and Flourishing Stars.

5, Mo Yan

Mo Yan, formerly known as Guan Muye, was born on February 17, 1955, in Ping'an Village, Dailan, Northeast Township Cultural Development Area, Gaomi City, Shandong Province, vice chairman of the Chinese Writers' Association, and the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2012, and is the first Chinese-born writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Representative works "Red Sorghum Family", "Sandalwood Torture", "Plump Breasts and Fat Hips", "Life and Death Fatigue", "Frogs" and so on.