Mao Dun (1July 4, 896-198 1 March 27, 2006), formerly known as Mao Dun, pen names: Mao Dun, Lang Loss,,, Zhi Jing, Pu Lao, Wu Ming, Shen Mingfu, etc. Born in Tongxiang, Jiaxing, Zhejiang. China is a famous modern writer, literary critic, cultural activist and social activist.

Mao Dun was born in a family with novel ideas and received a new education since childhood. He was admitted to Peking University Preparatory School and worked in the Commercial Press after graduation. Since then, he has embarked on the road of reforming China's literature and art. He is a pioneer of the New Culture Movement and one of the founders of China's revolutionary literature and art.

2. Works: Representative works include literary reviews such as the novel Midnight, Spring Silkworm, and Reading Occasionally at Night.

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Funny pen name:

Shen Yanbing has 98 pen names that have been confirmed. But among many pen names, "Mao Dun" is his most commonly used pen name. There is a short story about the origin of this pen name.

After the failure of the Great Revolution, Shen Yanbing was forced to live in seclusion. Frustrated, he began to vent his feelings with a pen, so he created the novel Disillusionment. After the novel was finished, Shen Dehong began to contribute, but many newspapers were afraid to publish his articles. This made him feel very contradictory, so he signed the "contradiction" on the manuscript.

The manuscript was finally handed over to Ye Shengtao, editor of Novel Monthly. Ye Shengtao thought the novel was very good, but after reading the name, he put forward his own views. He thinks that a name is a philosophical term, unlike a person's name and a spear is not like a surname. It is not good to use such a sharp pen name in such an environment at that time. Without authorization, he added a cursive prefix before the word "spear" and changed it to "Mao Dun"

Shen Yanbing is also very satisfied with this change and has always used it as his pen name.

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