Zhang Henshui (1May 89518-1February 967 15), formerly known as Xinyuan, was born in Qianshan, Anhui. Hating water is a pseudonym, which is taken from the phrase "People grow up and hate water to grow in the East" in Li Yu's poem "Wu Ye Topic" in the Southern Tang Dynasty.
Zhang Henshui is a famous novelist in Zhang Hui and a representative writer of Yuanyang Butterfly School. He has an important influence on the history of China literature and the development of vernacular Chinese in the 20th century.
His works are full of twists and turns, with rigorous and complete structure and layout, which combines the new techniques of China's traditional chapter and sentence novels and western novels, and is even more famous for his prolific works.
In his writing career of more than 50 years, he has created more than 100 popular novels, most of which are medium-length novels with a total word count of nearly 20 million, which can be called works. Four novels are representative works: History of Spring and Ming Dynasty, Family of Golden Powder, Cause of Crying and Laughing, and Eighty-one Dreams. Have a wife and two concubines.
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Since 19 14, the pen name "hate water" has been used, and the name is taken from a sentence by Li Yu that "people hate water when they grow up".
19 18, Zhang Henshui became the editor of Wuhu Wanjiang Daily and began his writing career. 19 19 published his first novel, Acacia in the South China. During this period, his works are devoted to describing infatuation and lingering, with strong recreational meaning, which can be included in the novels of Yuanyang Butterfly School. In the same year, Zhang Henshui went to Beiping, and successively served as assistant editor of Beiping Yi Shi Daily and Beijing correspondent of Tianjin Yi Shi Daily.
1In April, 924, he was the news editor of the World Evening News founded by his friend Cheng Shewo, and later edited its supplement, Night at Night. At this time, the first influential novel "History of Spring and Ming Dynasty" began to be serialized in the night light. This 900,000-word work swept the northern cities in the next 57 months, making Zhang Henshui famous.
The novel exposes, ridicules and condemns the anecdotes of officialdom and society at that time, and reflects the dark reality under the rule of warlords through the tragedy of love. The authors call themselves A Dream of Red Mansions and The Scholars. The novel combines romantic content and legendary elements, and integrates western novel techniques into the traditional chapter and sentence style, attracting readers at all levels.
1February, 925, Zhang Henshui was the editor-in-chief of Pearl, the supplement of World Journal founded by Cheng Shewo. He published many short stories and novellas in this newspaper.
1February, 927, Zhang Henshui began to serialize another of his more important works, The Golden Powder Family, in Pearl, thus further expanding his influence. The book "Golden Powder Family" has a million words, which exposes the greedy, hypocritical and corrupt life of the upper class and officialdom at that time.
1927 10, and Zhang Henshui is the editor-in-chief of World News. He left his post at the end of the year and published several novellas in Shenyang Xinmin Evening News, Beijing Yi Shi News, New Morning News and World Evening News.
1929 began to write the novel "Cry and Laugh". The book is about 250,000 words, including romance, condemnation and martial arts elements. This novel was serialized in 1930' s Shanghai news supplement "Happy Forest" and became a family reading.
When it was published, it became news because the major film companies rushed to make it into a film, and there were also many dramas and quyi adaptations. The number of sequels written for "Cry and Laugh" was the largest among novels in the Republic of China.
Together with Xu Zhenya's Soul of the Jade Pear, Li's Guangling Tide and Pingjiang Bu Xiaosheng's Biography of Wonders in Jianghu, they are also called the "four major schools" of Saturday School.
193 1 year, Zhang Henshui founded Beihua Academy of Fine Arts with the income from the manuscript fee, serving as the principal and Chinese teacher. Famous painters Qi Baishi, Xu Beihong and Li Kuchan were all teachers in this school.
That year, the Japanese army invaded and the three northeastern provinces fell. In order to express his inner anger, he added the content of anti-Japanese war to the novel "Taiping Flower" serialized in News. This is his first work to encourage the war of resistance.
Since then, a series of anti-Japanese war works have been published, such as Flowers of Blood, Four Northeast Commanders, Blood of Buried Hill, Anhui Frontline, Charge and Guerrilla. 1932 also published a collection of short stories "Bow Collection" to encourage the war of resistance. Many of his anti-Japanese war works are materials provided by fellow villagers in Qian Shan, which are touching and touching.
1934, Zhang Henshui set off from Beiping and went to the northwest. He met with Yang in Ann. On this line, he witnessed the inhuman hard life of the people of Shaanxi and Gansu, and the warlords entrenched in the northwest extorted and seized Ding, making the people even more miserable.
He was shocked and wrote: "After my trip to the northwest, I don't deny that my thoughts have changed, and literature has naturally changed." He wrote two novels, Yan and Xiaotian, with the life of the people in the northwest as the theme.
From 65438 to 0935, Zhang Henshui went to Shanghai to preside over the Bao Li Supplement of Huaguoshan, and his family moved to Shanghai. The following year, he went to Nanjing, founded Nanjing People's Daily with Zhang Youluan, and edited and supplemented Nanhuajing. In June, 1937, 1 1, was hospitalized in Wuhu due to illness.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he devoted a lot of energy to writing anti-Japanese war novels, among which the novels Eighty-one Dreams and Animal World (formerly known as Cattle and Horses Walking) were the most valued by later generations.
At the beginning of 1938, Zhang Henshui left the buried hill for Hankou. At that time, the All-China Federation of Literary and Art Circles was established in Hankou, and he was elected as a director. Then, he went to Chongqing, the capital of Chongqing, and joined Xinmin Daily as the lead writer, assistant to the director of the head office, manager of Chongqing edition, and editor-in-chief of Chongqing edition literary supplement The Last Minute.
1939 to 65438+February, Zhang Henshui began to serialize the fable novel "Eighty-one Dreams" in Chongqing Xinmin Daily. This work offended the powerful people in the society at that time, and also made Zhang Henshui closely watched by spies. After only a dozen dreams, I was forced to stop writing.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the National Government awarded Zhang Henshui and others 1000 people the Medal of Victory in the Anti-Japanese War. /kloc-at the end of 0/945, Zhang Henshui left Chongqing and returned to Beiping. Xinmin Daily was founded in Beiping, with Zhang Henshui as the manager and editor-in-chief of the supplement Beihai.
From 1946 to 1947, Zhang Henshui wrote many novellas, such as Rain in the Night, Drunk with Gold, and Five Children Going to College. /kloc-in the autumn of 0/948, Zhang Henshui resigned from all his posts in Xinmin Daily for some reason, ending his 40-year journalism career.
1949 65438+1October 3 1, China * * * the production party occupied Beiping, and Zhang Henshui published Memories of Writing Career in Xinmin Daily. In July, the National Congress of Literary and Art Workers was held in Beijing, and the National Federation of Literary and Art Circles was elected. Zhang Henshui was invited, but he was unable to attend because of hemiplegia caused by sudden hypertension.
From 65438 to 0954, Zhang Henshui's health began to improve, so he resigned as a consultant of the Ministry of Culture and concentrated on writing. /kloc-in the summer of 0/955, Zhang Henshui went south alone, arrived in Anqing via Hefei, and returned to his hometown after ten years' absence. He was excited by the changes in his hometown. After returning to Beijing, he wrote a novella Travel Magazine, which was published in Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao.
1956 In late spring and early summer, the All-China Federation of Literary and Art Circles organized a group of writers and artists to visit the northwest, and Zhang Henshui was invited to participate. After returning to Beijing, he wrote a travel note, A Journey to the Northwest, which was published in news daily.
1967 February 15 On the morning of the seventh day of the first lunar month, Zhang Henshui was about to get out of bed and suddenly collapsed. He died of cerebral hemorrhage in Beijing at the age of 72.
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