After the founding of New China, Shen Congwen was assigned to the Chinese History Museum to study cultural relics, arts and crafts patterns and material and cultural history. 1957 gave up his literary career. From 65438 to 0978, he was transferred to the Institute of History of China Academy of Social Sciences as a researcher, devoted to the study of ancient Chinese costumes and other historical fields. The research results include bronze mirrors in Tang and Song Dynasties, dragon and phoenix art, and ancient Chinese costumes. 1980 was invited to give lectures in the United States, and 1982 was added as a member of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles. In addition to the works listed above, Shen Congwen's works also include Essays, Dogs, Waste Mail, Yunan Collection, Comments, China Modern Writers' Comments, as well as various Shen Congwen's selected works and multi-volume Shen Congwen's selected works.
Shen Congwen (1902- 1988), a representative figure of Beijing school novels, was originally named Shen Yuehuan, a secluded and mysterious native of Fenghuang County in western Hunan, with Miao and Han Tujia descent. /kloc-joined the army after graduating from high school at the age of 0/4, and saw the world was dark and disgusted. After being exposed to new literature, 1923 went to Beijing, but failed to enter the university. Embarrassed, he began to write under the pseudonym "Hugh Yun Yun". From 1930s, he began to construct his own "Xiangxi World" with novels, and completed a series of representative works such as Border Town and Long River. He examined the present situation of urban-rural confrontation at that time from the subjective perspective of "countryman" and criticized the ugliness of modern civilization in the process of entering China. This concept, which is contrary to the masters of new literature, greatly enriches the expression range of modern novels.
There are more than 80 books created by Shen Congwen in his life, which is the largest number of books among modern writers. Early novels include Oranges, After the Rain and Others, Love of the Witch and so on. The basic theme has been seen, but the urban and rural clues are still unclear, the description of gender relations is shallow, and the purity of literature is poor. After 1930s, his works have been very mature, including Dragon Ball, Hotels and Others, Zhou Shi, Tiger Boy, A Black Mini-History, Scenery under the Moon, Eight Horses, Entering Kunming Collection, Selected Literary Novels and New and New.
From works to theory, Shen Congwen later completed a series of contrasting urban life forms, such as Xiangxi, Beauty of Rural Life Form and Synthesis of Critical Structure, and put forward his philosophy of "harmony between man and nature", that is, based on nature and returning to nature. The healthy and perfect human nature represented by "Xiangxi", a "beautiful, healthy and natural life form that does not contradict human nature", is exactly the content of all his creations. (Hui Yu was compiled and written according to Qian Liqun's Thirty Years of Modern Literature in China)
Introduction of Shen Congwen
Mr. Shen Congwen (1902 ~ 1988) is a modern writer and a scholar of historical relics. Formerly known as Shen Yuehuan, his pen names are Xiao Bing, Maolin and Yun Xiu. Phoenix, Hunan (now Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture). Miao nationality. 19 18 after graduating from primary school, he traveled all over the Yuanshui river basin with his former troops and lived in the border areas of Sichuan, Hunan, Hubei and Guizhou with his troops. 1923 went to Beijing to study writing by himself. After 1924, he began to publish his works and co-edited Beijing Daily Supplement and People's Literature and Art Weekly with Hu Yepin. From 65438 to 0928, he went to Shanghai with Hu Yepin and Ding Ling to edit Red and Black and People magazines. The following year, he taught in a public school in China. 1930 has been teaching at Wuhan University and Qingdao University. From 65438 to 0934, he edited the supplement of Ta Kung Pao Literature and Art in Peiping and Tianjin. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he went to Kunming as Professor The National SouthWest Associated University. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he was appointed as Professor Peking University and edited literary supplements such as Ta Kung Pao and Yi Shi Daily. From 65438 to 0926, Mr. Shen Congwen published more than 70 kinds of works and was called a prolific writer. The works published in the 1940s mainly include: Collection of Short Stories, Oranges, After Rain and Others, Love between Ghosts and Ghosts, Hotels and Others, A Zhou Shi, A Tiger cub, Short Stories about Ah Hei, A Little Scene under the Moon, Such Stories and Eight Horses. There are also prose collections, such as Dog Collection, Waste Mail and Stories, Yunnan Collection and Commentary Collection, as well as a variety of Shen Congwen's anthologies and multi-volume Shen Congwen's anthologies. His novels are based on a wide range of materials, describing the lives of all kinds of people from rural areas to cities, among which the works reflecting the lives of the lower people in western Hunan are the most distinctive. The representative work Border Town, with its beautiful brushstrokes of lyric poetry and prose, shows the beauty of nature, folklore and humanity, provides a pastoral picture full of pastoral sentiment and local color, and forms a unique lyric local novel. His creative expression is not unique, his style is not unique and his story is not unique. He tried various styles and structures to create and became a rare "style writer" in the history of modern literature. His prose is also unique, adding artistic brilliance to modern prose. Some later writers were deeply influenced by his writing style. In literary attitude, Mr. Shen Congwen has always adhered to the liberal position and insisted that literature should transcend the influence of politics and commerce.
From 65438 to 0948, Mr. Shen Congwen was severely criticized by the left-wing cultural circles. Guo Moruo rebuked Mr. Shen Congwen: "As a reactionary, he has been consciously active." 1949, Mr. Shen Congwen gave up his literary creation and was assigned to the Museum of Chinese History as an interpreter. Mr. Shen Congwen spent the rest of his life studying cultural relics, arts and crafts patterns and material and cultural history. From 65438 to 0978, he was transferred to the Institute of History of China Academy of Social Sciences as a researcher, devoted to the study of ancient Chinese costumes and other historical fields. He has published academic works such as Bronze Mirror of Tang and Song Dynasties, Dragon and Phoenix Art, and Research on Ancient Chinese Costume. Contrary to Mr. Shen Congwen's obscurity in China, Mr. Shen became famous abroad, and 1980 was invited to give lectures in the United States and entered the final list of Nobel Prize in Literature. From 65438 to 0988, 86-year-old Mr. Shen Congwen died of heart disease recurrence, leaving infinite regret for future generations.
Name: Shen Congwen
Gender: male
Date of birth: 1902— 1988.
Native place: Hunan
Shen Congwen (male) (1902— 1988) was originally named Shen Maolin and Shen Yuehuan, and his pen names were Xiu, Shang Guanbi and Xuan Ruo. Phoenix people in Hunan. 19 17 After graduating from primary school, he attended the training of reserve soldiers of indigenous troops in his hometown, then officially joined the army as a staff sergeant, and then engaged in the collection of slaughter tax. Being familiar with Xiangxi folk customs has a great influence on the theme selection and artistic style of later creation. Influenced by the May 4th New Culture Movement, 1922 went to Beijing for further study, but failed to do so and started writing for survival. Co-edited the supplement of Beijing Daily with Hu Yepin, and worked in Xiangshan Kindergarten Library. Arrived in Shanghai from 65438 to 0928, co-edited Red and Black with Ding Ling, and participated in the Crescent Society. He has published works and anthologies such as Ducks, Alice China's Travels, After Joining the Army, After the Rain and Others, and Love between Witches and Gods. Since then, he has taught in Chinese College, Wuhan University, Qingdao University, National Southwest Associated University and Peking University. Edit the literary supplement of Tianjin Ta Kung Pao. His creative peak was in 1930s, when he published a novella Border Town and a black short story, such as Tiger Chicks, Scenery under the Moon, Into the Life Collection, Eight Horses, New and Old, Biography of People, Hu Yepin and Ding Ling, and a collection of essays. During the debates in 1930s and 1940s, he repeatedly showed his alienation from the left-wing literary thoughts. 1948 was criticized by Guo Moruo by name, which once caused him to fall ill because of nervousness. Fortunately, he tried to kill himself. Later, he studied arts and crafts and the history of material culture in the Chinese History Museum and the Palace Museum, and no longer engaged in literary creation. From 65438 to 0978, he was transferred to the Institute of History of China Academy of Social Sciences as a researcher. 198 1 year's long-term research achievement "Research on Ancient Chinese Costume" (the first edition of Hong Kong Commercial Press) was published. In the early 1980s, there appeared a "Shen Congwen craze", and the research on him gradually deepened, and the evaluation of his works became higher and higher. In recent years, his collection of letters, Congwen Jiashu, has aroused extensive research interest in academic circles. His novels created a unique artistic world in western Hunan, revealed the beauty of rural life form in this quiet atmosphere, and criticized the corresponding urban life form, which is a kind of natural, simple and free lyric literature. He developed local literature to a higher level, and his novels reached a perfect and harmonious situation of rural customs, human destiny and characters. Language is full of personality and vitality. However, his literary ideal of perfection and beauty and his literary position of exploring human nature were incomprehensible in the noisy times at that time.
Shen Congwen (1902- 1988), formerly known as Shen Yuehuan, was born in Fenghuang County, Hunan Province. 14 years old, joined the team and roamed the Hunan-Sichuan-Guizhou border region. 1924 started literary creation, and went to teach in the National The National SouthWest Associated University after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War. 1946 returned to teach at Peking University.
Shen Congwen published more than 30 collections of short stories, such as Zhou Shi and Congwen Subsets, and 6 novellas, such as Border Town and Long River. Shen Congwen is the main executor and thinker of the rural world with special significance. He believes that "beauty lies in life" and is obsessed with the beauty of human nature, although he is in a hypocritical, selfish and indifferent city. He said, "Beauty lies in life". Choose a small piece of land as the foundation and pile it up with hard stones. Exquisite, firm and symmetrical, small but not slender, it is my ideal building, and this hall is dedicated to "humanity" (preface to Selected Works).
Shen Congwen's writing style tends to be romantic. He demanded the poetic effect of the novel, combining realism, recalling dreams and symbolism. The language style is simple, the sentences are simple and heavy, the trunk is prominent, simple and vivid, with strong local color, which shows the unique charm and charm of rural human nature. The whole work is full of hidden worries and philosophical thinking about life, such as his true and tenacious life, which gives people lessons and enlightenment.
There are two kinds of novels created by Shen Congwen, one is about life in western Hunan, and the other is about urban life. The former praises the beauty of human nature by describing the primitive and natural life form of Xiangxi people; The latter reveals the loss of urban natural humanity through the corruption of urban life. The rural world in his works shows the overall pattern of opposition and mutual participation with the urban society, while the "distortion of human nature" of the upper class under the urban theme is exposed under the candlelight of the ideal of "harmony between man and nature". It is his unique value scale and philosophical speculation on connotation that constitute the bridge between urban life and rural world under Shen Congwen's pen, and it is precisely because of this criticism of "modern literature" with money as the core and his romantic ideal.
The novella Border Town is his masterpiece, which embodies Shen Congwen's aesthetic ideals of "beauty" and "love" and is his most outstanding work to show the beauty of human nature. Through the love tragedy of his son and daughter Cui Cui's lover in Xiangxi, it reflects that Xiangxi can't grasp its own destiny in the face of "nature" and "personnel", and repeats the sad life from generation to generation, which places the author's national and personal hidden pain.
Phoenix, understanding Phoenix, began with Shen Congwen. 190212 On February 28th, Mr. Shen Congwen, a famous writer, historian and archaeologist in China, was born in a typical ancient quadrangle in Zhongying Street, Fenghuang Ancient City. Siheyuan was built after Shen Hongfu, the grandfather of Shen Congwen, who was the governor of Guizhou in Qing Dynasty, bought an old house and demolished it in the fifth year of Tongzhi (1866). It's a bungalow building sealed with firebricks. The quadrangle is divided into front and back floors, with a square red stone patio in the middle and wings on both sides, with the size of * * *1/. The house is a bucket wood structure, closed with a bucket and a pair of walls. Aotou, decorated with horsehead wall and carved doors and windows, is small, chic and antique. The whole building has strong architectural characteristics of Xiangxi in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Mr. Shen Congwen, who became famous in the literary world in the 1920s, was known as "the first-class modern literary writer in China, second only to Lu Xun" (On Shen Congwen by Jefferey C.KinKley) and spent his legendary childhood here.
Shen Congwen's life is bumpy and dedicated. From 19 17 to 1922, wandering in the Yuanshui River Basin in western Hunan. 1923 broke into Beijing, 1923 to 1928 made a living by writing in Beijing; 1928 to 1930 Lecturer of Ren Zhonghua Academy, once editor-in-chief of literary supplements such as Ta Kung Pao and Yi Shi Daily. Qingdao University lecturer 193 1 to1933; 1934 to 1939, editor-in-chief of national Chinese textbooks for primary and secondary schools in Beijing; 1939 to 1947, Professor The National SouthWest Associated University; Professor Peking University from 1947 to1949; 1950 to 1978, cultural relics researcher, Beijing Chinese History Museum; 1978 to 1988, researcher, Institute of China Academy of Social Sciences. Mr. Shen Congwen's literary works such as Border Town, Xiangxi and Autobiography of Shen Congwen have great influence at home and abroad. His works have been translated and published by more than 40 countries such as Japan, the United States, Britain and the former Soviet Union, and have been selected into university textbooks by the United States, Japan, South Korea, Britain and other countries or regions 10, and twice nominated as Nobel Prize in Literature candidates. Mr Shen Congwen is not only a famous writer, but also a famous historian and archaeologist. He has written and published academic monographs such as China Silk Patterns, Bronze Mirrors of Tang and Song Dynasties, Dragon and Phoenix Art, Lacquerware of Warring States Period, and Research on Ancient Chinese Costume, especially the representative work Research on Ancient Chinese Costume, which has great influence and filled a gap in the cultural history of China.
On 199 1, Shen Congwen's former residence was listed as a key cultural relic protection unit of the provincial people's government and was repaired with funds. The former residence now displays Shen Lao's ink, manuscripts, relics and portraits, which has become one of the most attractive cultural landscapes in Phoenix, with an endless stream of tourists every day.