Zhu Ziqing's Snow Dynasty should be called "Snow Dynasty (zhāo)".
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"Snow Dynasty" was published in 1922 by eight poets: Zhu Ziqing, Yu Pingbo, Zhou Zuoren, Liu Yanling, Xu Yunuo, Guo Shaoyu, Ye Shaojun and Zheng Zhenduo Collection of poems. It reflects the basic characteristics of poetry creation "for life" of the Literary Research Association.
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In 1926, a collection of poems was published by eight poets including Zhu Ziqing, Yu Pingbo, Zhou Zuoren, Liu Yanling, Xu Yunuo, Guo Shaoyu, Ye Shaojun and Zheng Zhenduo. It reflects the basic characteristics of poetry creation "for life" of the Literary Research Association. Zheng Zhenduo once said that the collection was named "Snow Dynasty" because it was compiled on a snowy morning.
Zhu Xiaotao, Zhu Ziqing's direct grandson, said, "Two years ago, Zhu Ziqing's former residence in Yangzhou was undergoing display improvements. I wrote a catalog at that time, which collected almost all of Zhu Ziqing's poetry and prose works. I checked it and found it in "Snow Dynasty" does not exist among Zhu Ziqing's poems."
Zhu Xiaotao said that as far as he understood, "Snow Dynasty" is the name of a collection of poems, which includes not only Zhu Ziqing's works, but also Yu Pingbo's. The poems of famous writers such as Zhou Zuoren, Guo Shaoyu, Ye Shaojun and Zheng Zhenduo are of high artistic and ideological level.
Introduction to Zhu Ziqing:
Zhu Ziqing (November 22, 1898 - August 12, 1948), formerly known as Zihua, with the nickname Shiqiu, and later changed his name to Ziqing, with the courtesy name Peixian . Originally from Shaoxing, Zhejiang, he was born in Donghai County, Jiangsu Province (now Pingming Town, Donghai County, Lianyungang City), and later settled in Yangzhou with his father. Modern Chinese essayist, poet, scholar, and democracy fighter.
After graduating from middle school in 1916, he was successfully admitted to Peking University Preparatory School. He began publishing poetry in 1919. In 1921, he joined the Literary Research Association and became a representative writer of "For Life". In 1922, he and Ye Shengtao and others founded the first poetry magazine in the history of new literature in my country, the monthly "Poetry", to advocate new poetry. The following year, he published a long poem "Destruction", which attracted widespread attention in the poetry circle at that time. He then wrote "Qinhuai River in the Shadow of Oars and Lanterns", which was hailed as "a model of vernacular art writing".
In 1924, the collection of poems and essays "Traces" was published. In 1925, he was appointed as professor of the Chinese Department of Tsinghua University. His creative writing shifted from poetry to prose, while he devoted himself to the study of classical literature. After the March 18th massacre, he wrote articles such as "Record of the Massacre by the Ruling Government" to denounce the atrocities of the warlord government. In 1928, the first collection of essays "Back" was published.