Does anyone know anything about Zhu Ziqing? Urgently needed ！！！！！！！！！

Table of Contents - Biography

- Writings

- Peiqin's Escapades

- Famous Writers on Peiqin

Biography

sheng ping

Zhu Ziqing (November 22, 1899-August 12, 1948) was originally known as Zihua. Zhu Ziqing (朱自清), formerly known as Zihua (自华), was known as Qiu Shi (秋实), and was called Pei Ching (佩弦). He was a famous modern writer, scholar and democracy fighter. Originally from Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, he was born in Haizhou, Jiangsu Province (present-day Lianyungang City) and later settled in Yangzhou with his grandfather and father. Zhu Ziqing's grandfather, Zhu Zeyu, No. Ju Po, originally surnamed Yu, changed his surname to Zhu because he inherited it. He was a prudent person, and served as an auditor in Haizhou, Jiangsu Province, for more than 10 years during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty. His father's name was Hongjun, his name was Xiaopo, and he married Zhou, who was a scholar. In the 27th year of Guangxu (1901), Zhu Hongjun went from Haizhou to Shaobo Town in Yangzhou Prefecture. Two years later, the whole family moved to Yangzhou City and settled in Yangzhou from then on. Zhu Ziqing's wife's name was Chen Zhuyin. In her early childhood, she studied in a private school, where she was nurtured by traditional Chinese culture, and was enrolled in a higher elementary school in 1912.

Zhu Ziqing lived in Yangzhou for 13 years, where he spent his childhood and adolescence. His feelings about this life in the ancient city were subtle and complex. Probably life is too monotonous, so he later said, childhood memories are only left "thin shadow", "like being washed by the general water, lonely to the degree of can be surprised!" However, in the long and winding journey of life, childhood is, after all, the first "station".

Yangzhou is a scenic cultural city, its lakes and mountains, pleasant scenery, how many poets such as Li Bai, Du Fu, Su Dongpo, Ouyang Xiu and other poets linger in this, searching for the victory, wrote a lot of popular and magnificent poetry. Yangzhou is also a heroic history of the city, in the history of resistance to foreign invasion, has written countless brilliant chapters, leaving many stories to sing and cry. The beautiful scenery of the ancient city and the rich culture of the atmosphere, in the invisible cultivated the temperament of the young Zhu Ziqing, raised his peace and integrity of character and yearning for the natural beauty of the interest. And the beautiful landscape of Yangzhou, more like rain and dew to nourish his soul, feed his feelings, enrich his imagination, so that his feelings are always full of poetry and picturesque. Yangzhou, this historical and cultural city, his influence is subtle and far-reaching.

After graduating from high school in 1916, Zhu Ziqing was admitted to the preparatory course of Peking University.

In February 1919, Zhu Ziqing wrote "Sleeping, Little Man", which was his debut of new poems. He was a participant in the May Fourth Patriotic Movement and was influenced by the May Fourth Wave to embark on the path of literature. Mao Zedong once praised Zhu Ziqing's backbone, saying that he was "seriously ill and would rather starve to death than receive American 'relief food'".

After graduating from the Department of Philosophy at Peking University in 1920, he taught middle school in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and took an active part in the New Literature Movement. 1922, he and Yu Pingbo and others founded the Poetry Monthly, which was the earliest poetry magazine during the birth of new poetry. He was a member of the Early Literature Research Society, and published the long poem Destruction in 1923, at which time he also wrote beautiful prose such as The Qinhuai River in the Shadow of Oars and Lights.

In August 1925, he taught at Tsinghua University, where he began to study classical Chinese literature, and wrote mainly prose; in 1927, he wrote The Backstory and Moonlight in a Lotus Pond, both of which became popular; in 1931, he studied in the UK and traveled around Europe, and wrote Miscellanea of European Travels on his return to China, and became the head of the Department of Chinese at Tsinghua University in September 1932; and at the outbreak of the war of resistance against the Japanese, he moved to Kunming, where he became the director of Southwest China. In 1937, when the Anti-Japanese War broke out, he moved south with the university to Kunming, where he became a professor at the Southwest Associated University, teaching courses such as Song Poetry and Studies in Literature and Rhetoric. During this period, he wrote the essay "Semantic Shadows". 1946, he returned to Beijing from Kunming and became the head of the Department of Chinese at Tsinghua University. 1947, Zhu Ziqing signed the Thirteen Professors' Manifesto, protesting against the arbitrary arrests of the masses. Protesting against the arbitrary arrest of the masses by the authorities.

Zhu Ziqing suffered from serious stomach problems in his later years, and his monthly salary was only enough to buy 3 bags of flour, which was not enough for the whole family of 12 to eat, and even less money for treatment. At that time, the Kuomintang colluded with the United States to start a civil war, and the U.S. implemented a policy of supporting Japan. One day, Wu Han asked Zhu Ziqing to sign the declaration of "Protesting the U.S. Policy of Supporting Japan and Refusing to Receive U.S.-Aided Flour," and he resolutely signed and said, "I would rather die poor and sick than accept this kind of insulting alms." On August 12 of this year (1948), Zhu Ziqing died of poverty in Beijing. Before his death, he instructed his wife, "I signed the document rejecting the American aid flour, and our family will not buy American flour rationed by the Kuomintang in the future." Zhu Ziqing, who was seriously ill, would rather starve to death than receive American "relief food", showing the backbone of the Chinese people. On the eve of the liberation of Beijing (August 20, 1948), died of stomach problems.

Zhu Ziqing died of illness, buried in the Fragrant Hills near the Wanan Cemetery, engraved on the tombstone, "Tsinghua University Professor Mr. Zhu Ziqing's tomb". 1990, his wife, Chen Zhuyin died, and Mr. buried together.

Zhu Ziqing embarked on the path of literature, initially famous for poetry, published a long poem "Destruction" and some short poems, included in the "Snow Dynasty" and "Traces". From the mid-1920s, he devoted himself to the creation of prose, and authored the essay collections Backstory, Miscellany of European Travel, You and I, Miscellany of London, and miscellaneous essays, Standard and Scale, and On Elegant and Secular **** Appreciation, and so on. His prose, landscape writing, travelogue, lyricism and miscellaneous essays and essays. First of all, he wrote landscape essays such as "Qinhuai River in the Shadow of Oars and Lights" and "Moonlight in the Lotus Pond", which showed the achievements of vernacular literature; followed by "Backstory", "Sons and Daughters", "To the Deceased Woman", and other emotional works, which set up a model of "Talking Style" prose that is rich in texture and naturalness; and lastly, he wrote miscellaneous essays with micro-conversations and full of interesting ideas, realizing the importance of poet, scholar and writer. Finally, he realized the unity of poet, scholar and fighter with his miscellaneous feeling of talking in a small way and full of interest. He has contributed to the construction of a simple, lyrical, colorful modern language prose.

As a scholar, Zhu Ziqing has made achievements in poetry theory, classical literature, new literature history and language education. His writings include New Poetry Miscellany, Poetry, Words, and Zhi, Classical Talks, Teaching Chinese Literature (co-authored with Ye Shengtao), and Outline of New Chinese Literature Study, among others. His writings are included in the Complete Works of Zhu Ziqing (Jiangsu Education Publishing House).

Zhu Ziqing life diligently, *** have poetry, prose, reviews, academic research works of 26 kinds, about more than two million words. The posthumous writings are compiled into the Zhu Ziqing Collection, Zhu Ziqing Poetry and Selected Writings, and so on.

Writings

zhu zuo

Writings Introduction

Zhu Ziqing life diligently, **** have poetry, prose, commentary, academic research works 26 kinds, about more than two million words. Most of the income in 1953 open bookstore published 4 volumes of "Zhu Ziqing anthology". 1988, jiangsu education publishing house of zhu ziqing writings another comprehensive collection, finishing, published 6 volumes of "zhu ziqing complete works". Although Zhu Ziqing began to write new poems after the May Fourth Movement, his 1923 poem The Qinhuai River in the Shadow of Oars and Lights showed his talent for prose writing. From then on, he devoted himself to the creation of prose, and made remarkable achievements. 1928 published a collection of prose, "Backstory", which made Zhu Ziqing a famous prose writer at that time.

Zhu Ziqing's prose is mainly narrative and lyrical essays. The subject matter of his works can be divided into three series: one is to write social life to attack the dark reality as the main content of a group of prose, the representative works of the "price of life - 70 cents", "the white man - God's proud son" and "the executive government massacre". Secondly, a group of essays represented by "Backstory", "Sons and Daughters" and "Mourning for a Dead Woman", which mainly describe personal and family life and show the human feelings between father and son, husband and wife, and friends, with a strong human flavor. Thirdly, a group of novels mainly about natural scenery, such as "Green", "Spring", "The Qinhuai River in the Shadow of Oars and Lights", "Moonlight in the Lotus Pond", etc., are the representative masterpieces of these novels. The latter two types of prose, Zhu Ziqing wrote the most outstanding, which "back" "Lotus Pond Moonlight" is a popular masterpiece. His prose is simple and meticulous, clear and elegant, and is known for its refined language and clear writing, which is very rich in true feelings.

His landscape prose occupies an important position in modern literature, and his use of vernacular language to describe the scenery is the most charming. For example, in "Green", he used metaphors, comparisons and other techniques to delicately and y draw the texture and color of the Meiyutan waterfalls, and the text deliberately seeks to work, showing a high degree of skill in mastering the language and text.

His pure writing skills are even more evident in "Moonlight in a Lotus Pond". For example, when describing the beauty of the lotus in the moonlight, the author compared it to the pearl, the stars of the blue sky, the beauty of the bath; in describing the light fragrance of the lotus, and then used "as if the distant high building floated over to the sound of the song of the remote," a sentence, to the sound of the song of a metaphor for the aroma, to the remote metaphor for the lightness of the aroma, the use of this generalized techniques accurate and The use of this generalized technique is accurate and wonderful.

Zhu Ziqing also has another language style of prose, that is, the use of simple language, in the simple narrative of the sincere deep feelings. These works often show the author's integrity, enthusiasm, and progress of the heart, such as "the price of life - seventy cents", "white people - God's proud son! and so on are representative works of this style, of which the most influential is The Backstory. This prose washes away his past lead, through the father's every move, the reader seems to see the author's miserable family situation and the father's deep love for his son. Li Guangtian said in his article "The Most Complete Personality": "The Backstory is a piece of writing that is less than fifty lines in terms of the number of lines, and no more than fifteen hundred words in terms of the number of words. ...... Since this short piece of writing was chosen as a national textbook for middle schools, in the minds of middle school students, the word 'Zhu Ziqing' has become the same as the word 'Backstory' in the Chinese textbook. ' three words have become inseparably one with 'Backstory'." What is said here is the situation before liberation. As for the post-liberation period, there were fewer selections of "Backstory," while the text "Moonlight in a Lotus Pond" was always selected as a textbook and recited by university and middle school students because of the beauty of its writing.

Why is Zhu Ziqing's prose so highly regarded? Mainly because his prose has the character of truth, goodness and beauty. The truth is that the content is true, sincere feelings. Good, means that the works of thought and feelings exposed is progressive, the author is right and wrong, love and hate and the masses of the people. Beauty, of course, includes many aspects, but especially for the general prose works unattainable, is its language beautiful and flavorful, both as clear and smooth as streams, and as sweet and chewy as olives. How does Zhu Ziqing pursue truth, goodness and beauty in his prose creation? From the content, Zhu Ziqing wrote about things he personally experienced. Not only are the big things well-founded, is a detail, but also strive to be true and accurate. He could not tolerate the slightest untruth in his prose. There is such a thing: there is a sentence in his Moonlight in a Lotus Pond: "The most lively thing at this time of the year is the sound of cicadas in the trees and the frogs in the water." Later, a reader wrote to tell him that the cicadas did not call at night. Zhu Ziqing thought that he did hear cicadas that night, but to be on the safe side, he asked several people and wrote to an entomologist for advice. As a result, everyone agreed that cicadas do not call at night, but only occasionally. Zhu Ziqing therefore suspected that he had misremembered, and was prepared to delete the sentence about cicadas calling when he reprinted his collection of essays, Backstory. But later, he heard the sound of cicadas on a moonlit night twice more, and only then did he believe that he had not written it wrongly, and that the general public had an inaccurate understanding of cicadas calling on a moonlit night. He wrote an article specifically for this purpose, explaining the difficulty of observing things. From this incident can be seen, Zhu Ziqing in the treatment of the authenticity of the content of the writing, the attitude is how serious and serious.

Zhu Ziqing prose feelings of sincerity is even more reputable. His "Backstory" and "To the Dead Woman" are called "the first literature of the world". In the light ink, there is a deep feeling, not a bit of artifice, but the power to move the heartstrings. In his articles "On Realism and Picturesque", "On Slogans and Slogans", "Zhong Ming & lt; Vomiting Bitter Lips & gt; Preface", etc., he emphasized that "truth" "is nature", "rhetoric to establish its sincerity", "rhetoric to establish its sincerity", "rhetoric to establish its sincerity", "rhetoric to establish its sincerity", "rhetoric to establish its sincerity", "rhetoric to establish its sincerity", and "rhetoric to establish its sincerity". ", emphasizing that "publicity and writing can not be missing ...... sincere attitude". It is this "sincere attitude", so that he put his true feelings, are poured into the words between the lines. And this from the depths of the heart out of the feelings of joy, anger, sadness and happiness, more likely to cause the reader's **** Ming.

Bibliography of Writings

Snow Dynasty (Poems) 1922, Commerce

Traces (Poems and Prose) 1924, Yadong Library

Backstory (Prose) 1928, Kaiming

Miscellanea of European Travel (Prose) 1934, Kaiming

You and I (Prose) 1936, Business

Miscellany of London (collection of essays) 1943, Enlightenment

The Teaching of the State Literature (collection of essays) 1945, Enlightenment

The Classical Commonplace (collection of essays) 1946, Literature and Light

Poetry in the Words of the Spirit and the Discernment of the Spirit (poetry treatise) 1947, Enlightenment

New Poetry Miscellaneous Words (poetry treatise) 1947, Writers' Bookstore

Standards and Scales (collection of miscellaneous essays) 1948, Wenguang

Language Gleanings (collection of essays) 1948, Meishan Bookstore

On the Appreciation of Elegance and Secularity*** (collection of miscellaneous essays) 1948, Observatory

Collected Writings of Zhu Ziqing (vols. 1-4) 1953, Kaiming

Collection of Zhu Ziqing's Essays on Classical Literature (Upper and Lower Volumes) 1981, Ancient Books

Collection of Zhu Ziqing's Preface and Book Reviews (Collection of Essays) 1983, Sanlian

Selected Prose of Zhu Ziqing 1986, Hundred Flowers

The Complete Works of Zhu Ziqing (Vols. 1-3) 1988, Jiangsu Education (not yet available) - -

Collections of Zhu Ziqing's prose:

1. Haste

2. Song

3. The Qinhuai River in the Shadow of the Oars and the Lights

4. The Traces of Wenzhou

5. The Backstory

6. Civilization of Sailing Vessels

7. Moonlight on a Lotus Pond

8, The Woman

9. <Plum Blossom>Postscript

10. The White Race - God's Proud Son

11. Wei Jie Sanjun"

15, "Miscellany of Travels"

16, "Gone with the Wind"

17, "Speaking of Dreams"

18, "Bai Cai"

19, "Miscellany of a Sea Journey"

20, "A Letter"

21, "Preface"

22, "Spring"

23, Green

Pei xuan yi shi

Pei xuan yi shi

Letter to help my father

After the Lugouqiao Incident, Mr. Zhu Ziqing was transferred to the rear, and wrote a letter to Li Jengo, who was teaching in Shanghai at the time, to ask him to help his father, who lived in Yangzhou, and naturally, Li Jengo would not let his teacher down. So why did Mr. Zhu Ziqing have the confidence to trust others so heavily? It turned out that a deep teacher-student friendship had long been established between the two. --After the summer vacation in 1925, Mr. Zhu Ziqing was recruited to Tsinghua University as a professor in the Department of Chinese Literature. Li Jengo, who had just graduated from the Affiliated High School of Beijing Normal University, was admitted to the Department of Chinese Literature of Tsinghua University. In the first class, Mr. Zhu Ziqing called the roll and when he came to Li Jengo, he asked, "Li Jengo, this name is very familiar, is it the Li Jengo who often writes articles in the newspaper?" Li Jengo replied, "I don't dare to hide it from the teacher, it's me." It is true that when he was a student in the attached middle school of the Normal University, Li Jengo and Jian Xianai organized the Torch Society to engage in new literary activities. "Then I knew you long ago!" Mr. Zhu said happily. After class, Mr. Zhu Ziqing advised Li Jianwu, "You want to study creative writing, it's not suitable for you to study in the Chinese Department, you'd better go to the Foreign Languages Department." At that time, the Chinese Department only read ancient books, so Mr. Zhu Ziqing said so. Li Jianwu listened to Mr. Zhu Ziqing's words, and in the second year, he moved to the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. Teachers and students are not in a department, but Li Jengo wrote works, are first sent to Mr. Zhu to see, always take Mr. Zhu Ziqing as a mentor. Mr. Zhu Ziqing also every time to help Li Jengo word by word to finalize the draft. Years of interaction, so that their sincere teacher-student relationship is fixed for life.

No American Flour

Because of the long-term hardship and work, Mr. Zhu Ziqing suffered from a serious stomach disease, and in early 1948, when the People's Liberation War entered its final stage, his condition worsened, but he could not be bothered to recuperate and put himself into the struggle even more. At this time, Mr. Zhu Ziqing, has been seriously ill and no money for medical treatment, but he did not hesitate to write in the "to show the dignity of the Chinese people and temperament, we categorically reject the United States with the nature of the soul of the purchase of all the alms material, whether it is purchased or given ...... "The declaration signed his name, and then immediately let the child returned the flour ration certificate. early August, Mr. Zhu Ziqing deteriorated, hospital treatment was ineffective, unfortunately died on the 12th, aged only 50 years old. Before his death, Mr. Zhu Ziqing with a weak voice earnestly urged his family: "There is something to remember: I was in the refusal of American aid flour signed the document, our family will not buy the KMT rationed U.S. flour!"

About Zhu Ziqing does not receive the United States "relief food" which allows us to see the great spirit of his love for the nation!

Wu Han

"Zhu Ziqing, who was seriously ill, preferred to starve to death rather than receive American 'relief grain'" (Mao Zedong's Selected Works, vol. 4, p. 1499), I feel particularly close to this matter, sad and angry. More than ten years have passed since then, but when I read these words now, the scene is still vivid in my mind. The so-called "relief food" was like this: in June 1948, the French currency of the Kuomintang government was depreciating all the time like the river going east, and it cost tens of thousands of dollars to buy a pack of paper cigarettes. Professors' salaries were rising month after month, but the French currency depreciated even faster, prices rose even faster, and the professors who used to live relatively privileged lives were at this time as difficult to live on as the general population. Especially for those with large families, life was even more difficult. The Kuomintang government was also aware of the people's resentment, especially the intellectuals in higher education, and they could not bear this situation. So it played a trick, issued a kind of matching

Purchase certificate, can be bought at a lower price "U.S. aid flour". It was also at this time that the U.S. government was actively supporting Japan, and the U.S. Ambassador to China, Mr. Stanton, was screaming slander and insults at the Chinese people. On the one hand, he was buying on the cheap, and on the other hand, he was supporting Japan and insulting the Chinese people. Some of us have discussed the need to expose the conspiracy of the Kuomintang government, to protest against the insults of the U.S. government, and to issue a public statement.

The statement reads:

In opposition to the pro-Japanese policy of the U.S. Government, and in protest against the slander and insults of the Chinese people by the U.S. Consul General Carboldt in Shanghai and the U.S. Ambassador to China, Mr. Stanton, and as a sign of the dignity and temperament of the Chinese people, we categorically reject all U.S. handouts of the nature of the soul of the buy-off, whether they are purchased or given. The following fellow agreed to refuse to buy U.S. aid affordable flour, unanimously return the shopping card, hereby declare.

June 17, thirty-seven years

The statement was written to collect signatures, but also, as usual, decided that each person is responsible for contacting a number of people, older professors are mostly attributed to me to run errands. I took the manuscript to find Mr. Zhu Ziqing. At that time, his stomach disease has been very serious, can only eat very little, eat a little more to vomit, and thin face, speak in a low voice. He had many children and his life was more difficult than anyone else. But as soon as he finished reading the manuscript, he signed it without hesitation. He had always written with regularity. This time, with a trembling hand, he signed his name without a single stroke. Here, it should also be explained that after returning to Tsinghua Park from Kunming in 1946, his attitude changed significantly and he was no longer silent. He opposed the civil war and hated the Kuomintang. His opinion of the ****production party also began to change, and he used to recite poems about the liberated areas at public gatherings, and sometimes twisted rice-planting songs with the students in costume, getting all sweaty. I always looked for him in the struggle against some of the U.S. declarations, telegrams, statements, etc., against the KMT. As soon as he saw me, he understood the purpose, "It's a signature, isn't it?" He read the manuscript and wrote his name. As far as I can remember, about eight or nine times out of ten he signed. There were times when he didn't sign, because the text was a little more fiery. On this occasion, I had also approached some other professors, all of whom I usually knew well or who lived in the neighborhood, and most of them signed, but I also hit a nail on the head. One professor had only three children, but his response was crisp: "No! I want to live!" Zhu Ziqing's stomach problems were from starvation, and his family had a large population to feed. In the late Kunming, someone calculated that the salary of our kind of people equivalent to the pre-war silver dollar is only about a dozen dollars. Zhu Ziqing is concerned about politics, but not much to express opinions, can be said to be gentle and elegant, no fire. During the war, the news was blocked by the Kuomintang, the Kuomintang's negative resistance to Japanese imperialism, but positive friction against the **** Producers, set off several anti-*** climax of the real situation, the people in the rear are not clear. He thought that as long as the resistance, life should be lived a little harder and less whining. Although he sympathized with many political activities in Kunming, he seldom participated in them. By the time the Kuomintang reactionaries assassinated Wen Yiduo, he felt great indignation. After demobilizing and returning to Peking, and seeing that the U.S. imperialists were helping the Kuomintang to start a civil war and fighting a big battle, his attitude changed, and he stood up in front of the U.S. imperialists and their lackeys, the Kuomintang reactionaries, and, with a few rare exceptions, he joined in with us. There are a few things worth mentioning, one is his efforts to compile the Complete Works of Wen Yiduo, which I have pointed out in my trek through the complete works:

Mr. Pei Ching, an old friend and colleague of Yiduo for more than a decade, spent a year collecting posthumous articles and compiling corrections for this book. He drew up the table of contents ...... a sentence, without the efforts of Mr. Peixian, this collection is impossible to edit.

At that time, the move to compile and print the complete collection of Yiduo was a protest and condemnation of the reactionary faction of the Kuomintang. On the contrary, compared with some people, who had been Yiduo's classmates or old-time classmates, and had a friendship of 20 to 30 years, but never cared about this matter after Yiduo's death and did not write a single text in his memory. Another thing was his love for young students. To cite an example, there was a fight between two students in his department, one from the Democratic Youth League and the other from the Kuomintang's Three Youth League. The reason for the fight was of course political, and both of them went to the teacher to complain. Mr. Ziqing was afraid that this student of the Democratic Youth League would suffer, so he advised him to give in a little behind his back. After I learned of this matter, I wrote a letter to give my opinion, asking him to consider who was right and who was wrong politically, and probably worded it a little more sharply. The next day he came to my home and very seriously and earnestly explained his intention, that Spring and Autumn reproach the virtuous, that he had said a few words about the progressive student in order to protect him from the retaliation of the Three Youths, and that, at the same time, he agreed that my opinion was correct. Afterwards, I told this to a student of the Minzu Youth, and this student was also very moved. His opposition to the rule of the Kuomintang secret agents, though he did not speak out loudly, could be seen in an incident that I personally came into contact with. At this time, the Kuomintang reactionaries tightened their secret service control over institutions of higher learning in order to save them from near death. In protest, I wrote an academic paper, "The Schools of the Early Ming Dynasty," about the early Ming Dynasty and scolding the KMT reactionaries, and sent it to the school's publication, the Tsinghua Journal, for publication. Some of the editors of the Journal were members of the Kuomintang, and of course they refused to publish it, arguing that it was not considered a scholarly article. I talked to Mr. Ziqing, who was also a member of the editorial board of the Journal, and wrote to the editor-in-chief, advocating strongly for publication, and the article was finally published. From this incident, we can see the change of his thoughts and feelings.

As he was tortured by stomach problems for a long time, his body was excessively weakened, but he also understood that the sky was about to dawn, the dark clouds were about to pass, and the good days were coming. Feeling relieved, he wrote two lines of a poem under the glass panel on his desk, "But the sunset is infinitely good, why be despondent near dusk." It is from the Tang poet Li Shangyin's poem "The setting sun is infinitely good, but it is only near dusk" set to turn the case. These two lines of the poem very aptly expressed his mood at that time.

On July 23, a symposium on "Today's Tasks of Intellectuals" was held at Tsinghua University's I-Zi Hall, which was the last political event he attended. I personally went to his home to invite him, and strolled with him from the North Courtyard to the I-Zi Hall. He walked for a while, stopped for a while, and said to me in a broken voice: "You are right, you are on the right path. But people like me are not quite accustomed to it, and to educate us, we must take our time. This will keep up with you all." He also spoke during the meeting, and the main paragraph still means the same thing, he said, "There are two roads for intellectuals: one is to help the murderers and idlers, to climb upwards, there are such people in both feudal and capitalist societies. One is downward. Intellectuals are upwardly mobile and downwardly mobile, so they are a stratum rather than a class. It is not easy to ask many intellectuals to throw away their vested interests. Now we live the mass life

Life is not yet over. This is also not rationally unwilling to accept, rationally know that it should be accepted, it is habitually change not over."

Mr. Ziqing knew rationally that he had to throw away his vested interests and live the life of the masses, and he took another step forward, a big step forward. He refused to buy U.S. aid flour, after signing, this day's diary recorded this matter: June 18, this matter shall lose 6 million francs per month, the impact of the home is very large, but the Yu still fixed signature. Because I am against the U.S. and Japan, I should start directly from myself. This can be seen in his determination.

Not only that, the day before his death, he also told his wife: "There is one thing to remember, I was in the refusal of U.S. aid in the flour of the document signed!" Mr. Ziqing was a typical figure among the intellectuals of the olden times. He used to be a liberal, and he did not much like to take part in political activities, especially those which were more intense and combative. However, he had a sense of justice, and with the intensification of the enslavement and oppression of the Chinese people by the Kuomintang and American imperialism, and the armed provocations, massacres, and suppression of the Chinese people, he could not stand it after all. He spoke and acted, showing his attitude through cultural life, recitation of poetry and rice-planting songs.

On the other hand, he resolutely refused to take the middle way, the Third Way, and at that time he was asked to join the New Way, a middle way publication run by the Kuomintang, which he resolutely refused. But he attended our symposium with his illness.

He was clear about right and wrong, love and hate, and in his declining years, he finally had a clear position, lifted up his head, lifted up his spine, and preferred to starve to death, and resolutely refused the enemy's "relief", and this kind of character, this kind of moral character, is worthy of our study today." We Chinese have backbone. Many people who were once liberals or democratic individualists have stood up to the American imperialists and their lackeys, the Nationalist reactionaries." (Selected Works of Mao Zedong, Vol. 4, p. 1499) Comrade Mao Zedong praised the backbone of Wen Yiduo and Zhu Ziqing, saying that "an ode to Wen Yiduo and an ode to Zhu Ziqing should be written," which is the responsibility of those of us who have not yet died, especially Mr. Yiduo and Mr. Ziqing, who were comrades in arms during their lifetime. This kind of performance of our nation's heroic spirit of the ode, but also to the future. This text can only be regarded as some memories caused by re-reading the article "Farewell, Stewarton".

Ming jia lun pei xuan

Yu Dafu, "Chinese New Literature Series Prose II - Introduction": Although Zhu Ziqing is a poet, his prose can still be full of poetic meaning. Among the prose writers of the Literature Research Association, except for Ms. Bing Xin, the beauty of his writings should be counted on him.

Ye Shengtao, "Mr. Zhu Peiyin": when it comes to the perfection of style and the language of writing, Mr. Zhu should be the first to be mentioned.

Lin Fei, "Notes on the Prose of Sixty Modern Artists": Mr. Zhu Ziqing's success is that he is good at expressing his inner feelings about the natural scenery through precise observation and delicate writing.

Zhu Dexi, "Zhu Ziqing's Prose": Zhu Ziqing's prose is very concerned about the language, even if it's a matter of one or two words, never relax. But his focus on language is by no means a heap of words.

Ye Shengtao: Every time I reread Peixin's prose, I recall the pleasure of listening to his small talk, ancient and modern, wide and open, not pretentious but full of interest. I often wondered if I hadn't also had his experiences and her thoughts. In me it was just a flash, but he held on to it. He also managed to express it in just the right way, either lightly or strongly, with an extremely positive and mellow flavor."

If you think this entry needs to be improved, new content added or incorrect content corrected, please edit the entry

Open Categories:

Historical Figures, Writers, Scholars, Essayists, Democracy Fighters

References:

1. Zhu Ziqing's Collected Writings