Zhou Zuoren (1885 ~ 1967) was originally named Zhashou, later renamed Wei Xiao, and later named Meng,,, under the pen names Zhongmi, Yaotang and Zhou Xiashou. People from Shaoxing, Zhejiang. Modern famous writer, thinker and translator. Zhou Zuoren is Lu Xun's second brother. 190 1 year entered Nanjing Jiangnan naval academy. Du Dong studied in Japan. 19 1 1 worked as an English teacher in Ren Zhongxue, Shaoxing after returning to China. 19 17 was hired as a professor of arts in Peking University. During the May 4th Movement, he was the editor-in-chief of Xinchao Society, participated in the editing of New Youth, initiated the establishment of a literary research society, published important theoretical articles such as People's Literature and Popular Literature, engaged in the creation of prose and new poems, and translated and introduced foreign literary works. His theoretical thought and creative practice had a great influence on the society and became an important representative of the New Culture Movement. After the May 4th Movement, Zhou Zuoren, as the editor-in-chief and one of the main contributors of Yusi Weekly, wrote a lot of prose, with a peaceful and elegant style. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Zhou Zuoren lived in Beiping after the fall, and served as a member of the Standing Committee of the North China Government Affairs Committee and an inspector of the General Education Department. 1945 was sentenced to prison for treason. 1949 After he was released from prison, he settled in Beijing, engaged in the translation of Japanese and Greek literary works, and wrote articles about Lu Xun's memory. His main works are prose collection My Garden, A Book in Rainy Days, Talking about Dragons, Talking about Tigers, Yongri Collection, Watching the Party and Reading and Copying at Night, Essays on Bitter Tea, Talking about Candles, Poetry Collection Past Lives, Novel Collection Orphans and the Origin of China's New Literature.
Portrait of Zhou Zuoren
Gu Zhuo is elegant and simple.
Zhou Zuoren's fan calligraphy is rough and Gu Zhuo, elegant and simple, elegant and extraordinary, and has a special taste. Deng Yunxiang, a famous contemporary scholar, once listened to Zhou Zuoren's class in Peking University when he was young. In 1950s and 1960s, he often came back with Zhou Zuoren's fish and geese, and once had twenty or thirty letters and poems written by Zhou Zuoren. He commented: "Mr. Lu Xun and Tang Zhi are very similar in writing. The words are very regular and skilled, and the strokes are long and horizontal. They are all vigorous Gu Zhuo, comparable to the general people. "
Although many people think that Zhou Zuoren's calligraphy is remarkable, Zhou Zuoren himself ridiculed his calligraphy and degraded himself as a "bad pen". In "Memories", he once had a memory of the famous scholar Liu: "When Shen Shu wrote an article, he really wrote a thousand words and carefully noted the quotations. There was nothing wrong with it, but the handwriting was really terrible, almost like a child painting red, and he didn't talk about the order of strokes ... At that time, among the liberal arts teachers in Peking University, as far as evil letters were concerned, some researchers thought that Zhou Zuoren said that Liu's handwriting was really poor. When he belittles others, he doesn't forget to laugh at himself, so that the degraded people can get a little psychological balance. In fact, Zhou Zuoren is quite confident in his calligraphy, otherwise he wouldn't often seal books or write some poems and fans for his friends.
Zhou Zuoren, a calligraphy fan