Shen Zufen Middle School is studying in Shanghai. 1930 was admitted to Shanghai Business School of Central University (now Shanghai University of Finance and Economics). 193 1 Transfer to the Chinese Department of College of Literature, Nanjing Central University. At that time, there were many famous Chinese teachers in the department and the style of study was prosperous. Shen Zufen has attracted people's attention because of his family's classical literature research and ability to write old-style poems. Dong Wang, the dean at that time, was surprised that her "Huanxisha" had a slightly profound reflection on the national crisis after the "September 18th Incident" and gave her warm encouragement. At the same time, Shen Zufen also started her new literary creation. The dream of youth, meticulous psychology and delicate poetic sentiment are freely expressed in her attempts at various literary forms, which are scattered in new poems, essays, novels, one-act plays and so on. Published at that time, this initially showed her literary talent and creative style. Shen Zufen is not a rootless tree, passive water, and she has a profound cultural accumulation in China.
She was born in a scholarly family, and her grandfather was good at calligraphy. She also had frequent contacts with modern celebrities such as Wu Changshuo and Zhu Xiaozang. She received a good basic education since she was a child. Besides studying common courses such as Mandarin, English and arithmetic, she also studied landscape Chinese painting, western painting and Suzhou embroidery. At an early age, she could sing a five-character poem by watching the moon couplets at home.
She went to a famous university-the highest institution in China at that time-China Literature Department of Nanjing Central University. After graduation, she was admitted to the National Studies Class of Jinling University. She was a famous talented woman at that time, and one of the few female graduate students trained by China University in the early days. Her teachers are all masters of Chinese studies. Almost every one of them is a knowledgeable scholar and a well-known professor, and their names have reappeared after being covered by thick dust for many years. They are: Huang Kan (Ji Gang), Dong Wang (Chu Xu), Wu Mei (You An), Wang (Bijiang), Hu Guangwei (Xiao Shi), Hu Jun (East), Shang Chengzuo (Yong), (Hengru), Liu, etc.
Shen Zufen's works are not without innovation and influence, and have been highly praised by many famous artists and loved by readers.
When she was a middle school student, she published novels and essays and won awards. She writes historical novels and new poems, which is one of the "young writers come to the fore and enter the literary world vigorously" (the fifth assembly of China New Literature Series 1927―― 1937). Her historical novel "Zen Master" and Lao She's masterpiece "Crescent Moon" were included in the fifth episode of China's new literature series 1927- 1937. Her new poetry collection "Microwave Ci" was also published in Chongqing on 1940, and some of its chapters were also sung as songs.
As a poet, she is more famous. A poem "Huanxisha" written by students has been praised by the masters because it shows the feelings of worrying about the country and the people and talented people. The sentence "There is spring sorrow in the sunset" is called "Shen". With the sound of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's drums, 400 Ci Poems about the River, a masterpiece of modern ci, has made some innovations from the application of form to the profoundness of content. In addition, she is almost the same as Li Qingzhao, a poetess in the Song Dynasty, and is regarded as "contemporary Li Qingzhao" by the Fang family! In her later years, she was unique in the creation of ancient poems, and the "river-related people" who had gone through hardships dipped their last strength to write "river-related poems".
Shen Zufen is a writer, poet, scholar and professor.
She teaches in many universities. How many students are obsessed with her lectures will not forget them after many years. Her papers and monographs not only introduce the historical background and ideological trend of literary works in the way of knowing people and discussing the world, but also have unprecedented detailed analysis. She is also a master of making the difficult easy and simplifying the complicated. Reading her explanations of Appreciation of Song Poetry and Seven Poems of Tang Poetry, people who didn't know ancient poetry in the past will be easily introduced to the door, and those who already love poetry will understand it to the next level. Today, even middle school textbooks have her appreciation of ancient poems.
Shen Zufen's poems and other works, as well as her academic research and teaching achievements in China's classical literature, should be an indispensable part of the history of China literature and the essence of China culture that we should inherit. However, for a long time, the study of the history of modern literature in China seems to turn a blind eye to this. For a period of time, the works of some writers who were once called "Yuanyang Butterfly School" and even traitors and literati have been turned to be very lively. However, Shen Zufen's works, which are full of worries about the country and the people and have high artistic appreciation value, are still given a cold shoulder in the study of literary history, which can't help but make people feel sorry and even unfair! Is it a legitimate reason that her works are mainly in ancient forms? Is it a credible excuse that she has passed away? The so-called "high and low" argument is even more unreasonable. In recent years, Shen Zufen's works, singles and anthologies, as well as her works, such as Appreciation of Song Ci and Seven Outlooks of Tang Jueju, have been published again and again, and some of them have printed hundreds of thousands of copies, which fully proves that she has a wide readership and the charm of her works. Shen Zufen's works include: Compromise, Spring Festival Evening, Nannan, Mysterious Poems, Argument for the Zen Master, Rainy Night in Maoling, Mayi Post, Sorrow of Prime Minister Su, etc.
Attachment: One of Mr. Shen's most famous poems-
say goodbye to
I came quietly.
Like duckweed floating on the water.
I left quietly again.
Like a breeze blowing in the forest
Think of me whenever you like.
It's like thinking of a star on a summer night
You can forget me if you like.
It's like forgetting a spring dream, you came quietly in the morning,
Before the sun shines on the balcony;
Don't hesitate when crossing the grass.
Carefully pick a bright dewdrop.
Keep everyone awake,
I am waiting for you alone under Xiaoxing;
Tell you gently about your dream last night,
There is a fallen flower in the dream, a gust of wind.
There you are, slowly at dusk,
And the sunset still lingers on the mountain peak;
Don't stop when you walk through the Woods.
The crow came to my door;
Don't use lanterns when the sun goes down
This is just what we need.
Then you should sing a poem for me,
But don't say goodbye, don't say lovesickness.
You came, quietly in the quiet night,
Before the moon hides in the clouds;
Don't be afraid when you pass the black path.
It's not ghosts but frogs crying by the river;
We turned off the lights and there were many stars.
No one, don't be afraid who will eavesdrop;
Then you help me pick up the strings,
● Pop up a sad lingering.
(Originally published in the 3rd issue of Volume 8 of Literature and Art Monthly, published in March 1936)