The name was changed to her by her grandfather.

Xiao Hong (June 1, 1911 - January 22, 1942), a modern Chinese female writer, one of the "Four Talented Women of the Republic of China", was known as the "Literary Goddess of the 1930s" ". Her baby name was Ronghua, which was later changed to Zhang Naiying by her maternal grandfather. The pen names are Xiao Hong, Yin Yin, Lingling, Tian Di, etc.

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Stylistic features:

Xiao Hong’s novels have distinctive stylistic features, creating a scene-like novel structure.

The series of essays "Shangshi Street" was criticized as "incomprehensible" when it was published, because Xiao Hong used many novel techniques. This writing form was extremely novel in the 1930s. Stylistically, it is closer to a novel. However, it is also "an out-and-out record of life" (Xiao Jun's "Shangshi Street·Reading Postscript").

In the history of modern Chinese novels, from "Shangshi Street", "The Field of Life and Death" to "The Story of Hulan River", Xiao Hong broke the single narrative mode of traditional novels and created a kind of novel and prose. It is a marginal style between poetry and poetry, and with its unique unconventional language, autobiographical narrative method, non-plot structure and poetic style, it has formed a unique "Xiao Hongti" novel style.

The development path of this novel style is the prose culture of modern Chinese novels, which realizes the connection and continuity of literary history from one aspect, and bridges modern literature and traditional literature in terms of aesthetic consciousness.

To be more precise, it achieves a new connection between some of the elegant poems and prose in traditional literature and some of the novels that have replaced poetry as the main body in modern literature. It is this connection that creates the most vital content in modern literature.

Xiao Hong uses her own tragic life, feelings and life experiences to observe the life forms and living conditions of the rural society she is familiar with, expose and criticize the weaknesses of national character, and describe the tragedy of human beings and women. and the tragedy of human life in general, thus giving his novels a strong and profound tragic connotation and a unique and rich cultural connotation.

Overall evaluation:

Xiao Hong is a female writer with a unique artistic style. She is known for her mixed emotional tone of sadness and joy in her works, her strong and soft language style and her unique His use of writing perspective and treatment of writing structure are unique in the history of literature.

Xiao Hong is a typical female literary character, who loves to toss and is unwilling to keep her duties. Generally speaking, her life is miserable, short-lived, poor, and running around. She left home at the age of nineteen. I ran away and never looked back. I only went back once.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Xiao Hong