Interpretation of Terms in China Literature History

1. 1. Literature Research Association: it is the first pure literature group in the new literature movement in China. Established in 192 1 1. The founders are Mao Dun, Zhou Zuoren, Zheng Zhenduo, Ye et al. It actively advocated the literary revolution based on the Novel Monthly. Mao Dun, its main theorist, suggested that literature should honestly express life, especially the oppressed people. In terms of creative methods, he mainly advocates realism and opposes aestheticism and romanticism. The achievements of writers in the Literature Research Association are mainly manifested in novel creation, such as Mao Dun's trilogy Eclipse, Ye's Ni Huanzhi, Xu Dishan's Weaving Spiders and Bing Xin's Superman. , all show the characteristics of realism and become the representative works of this realistic literary school.

1.2. Creation Society:1921July was established in Japan, and its members are mainly Guo Moruo and Yu Dafu, and it is an important romantic literary society after the May 4th Movement. He founded the quarterly magazine Creation, Creation Weekly, Creation Day, Flood and other publications, advocating "art for art's sake", emphasizing that literature must faithfully express the author's own "inherent requirements" and attach importance to the aesthetic function of literature. Most of the works of the members of the creative society are mainly self-expression, with a strong personal subjective lyric color.

1.3. Threads Society: Threads Weekly, named after 1924 1 1, was founded in Beijing. Composed of the main writers of Yusi, the main representatives are Zhou Zuoren, Lu Xun, Lin Yutang, Qian, Sun Fuyuan, Yu Pingbo and Liu Bannong. It is the earliest publication in the history of modern literature in China, mainly publishing mixed feelings, short comments and sketches. The prose creation of the writers of the Silk Society has formed a unique "silk" style, which is arbitrary in ideological content, discarding the old and promoting the new, and taking literary sketches and essays as the main forms in art, which is spicy, humorous and ironic. The sharp and pungent essays represented by Lu Xun and the elegant essays represented by Zhou Zuoren and Lin Yutang formed two categories of prose creation, which had an important influence on the development of prose.

1.4. American Writing: Zhou Zuoren published the article "American Writing" at 192 1, advocating more narrative and artistic American writing. Wang Tongzhao, Hu Shi and others responded to this, while Bing Xin, Zhu Ziqing, Yu Dafu, Yu Pingbo and others carried out creative practice. As an independent American writer,

1.5. Silk style: named after essays with the same characteristics created by members of Silk Society. The publication of Yu Si is mainly prose. In terms of creation, although the ideas and artistic opinions of colleagues in the Silk Society are not consistent, they have formed a consistent style in criticizing the disadvantages of the times: abandoning the old and promoting the new, discussing the ancient and modern, combining the ancient and the modern, combining the Zhuang and the harmonic, being concise, lively and eclectic, which is the distinctive feature of the Silk Style. The most representative prose creation has two aspects: one is the essay represented by Lu Xun and the other is the essay represented by Zhou Zuoren.

1.6. Poetry:1921-kloc-0/924, Bing Xin, Zong Baihua, Xu Yunuo and others began to write short poems under the influence of Tagore's Birds and Japanese haiku. Short poems often express personal instant feelings in short style, or express feelings with metaphors, or with scenery, and often use philosophical reasoning to express the writer's "fragmentary thoughts".

1.7. Crescent Poetry School: 1926, Xu Zhimo and Wen Yiduo advocated new metrical poetry in the Morning Post Supplement Poetry and put forward the idea of "three beauties" in poetry creation, which was called Crescent Poetry School. They put China's new poetry on a more rigorous development path.

1.8. Symbolism poetry school: Symbolism poetry school represented by Li Jinfa appeared in the poetry circle after the May 4th Movement. Influenced by French symbolism poetry school, symbolism poets pay attention to sensory enjoyment and stimulation, and attach importance to temporary illusion. Symbolist poets deny the relationship between poetry and music, and regard poetry as visual art completely, which is different from the crescent school's emphasis on the beauty of poetry syllables. The school of symbolism poetry is characterized by the strangeness of conceptual connection. The Slight Rain, Songs for Happiness, Diners and Bad Years published by Li Jinfa 1925 to 1927 are representative works of symbolism poetry.

1.9. Spring Willow Society: 1906 was founded by Li Shutong, Lv Jingruo and Ou Yangyuqian in Tokyo, and it is the first drama group in China. Their performance La Traviata in 1907 was a great success, which aroused strong repercussions among international students. In June of the same year, they performed their own large-scale drama "Black Slave Record", which not only caused a sensation in the field of international students, but also attracted great attention from Japanese literary and art circles, and was regarded as the beginning of China's early drama. Since then, the members of Chunliu Society have been increasing, and they have successively created or adapted plays such as The Painter and His Sister, which have produced good results.

1. 10. Lifelong Event: The one-act drama Lifelong Event tells the story of Tian Yamei and Teacher Chen falling in love freely and leaving home because of dissatisfaction with their parents' obstruction. The play shows the brave attitude of new women who pursue individual liberation and marital autonomy against feudal superstitions and traditional ethical practices.

1. 1 1. Love American TV:1921March, Shen Yanbing, Zheng Zhenduo, Chen Dabei and others initiated the establishment of People's Drama Society, advocating art for life, emphasizing that drama reflects the times and advocating "realistic social drama". In view of the degraded civilized drama, they advocate "love drama"

1. 12. Lakeside Poetry Club: 1922 was founded in Hangzhou, and its members include Wang Jingzhi, Feng Xuefeng, Pan Mohua and Yingxiu. It is a romantic poetry club dedicated to the creation of love poems.

1. 13. nanguo society: 1927 was established in Shanghai in the winter, led by Tian Han, and nanguo society was formerly known as nanguo film and drama society. There are literature, painting, music, drama, movies and so on. , mainly drama activities. The main members are Tian Han, Xu Zhimo, Xu Beihong and Zhou. Its purpose is to "unite promising young people, who can keep pace with the times and carry out an artistic revolution movement." Published publications include Southland Semimonthly and Southland Weekly.

1. 14. Local literature: In the 1920s, a group of young writers who were close to the countryside appeared in China's modern literary world. Their works are more influenced by Lu Xun, taking rural life as the theme and farmers' sufferings as the main content, forming the so-called "local literature". Local literature appeared under the influence and development of the literary proposition "for life". Writers pay attention to the most oppressed peasants in the process of exploring the true meaning of life and pursuing an ideal society. The bankruptcy of peasants, the tragic fate of rural women, the bad habits of feudal countryside and the numbness of peasants' thoughts, as well as the decline of small and medium-sized landlords and petty bourgeoisie, are all deeply manifested. Representative writers' works include: Wang's Tired, Xu's Crazy Woman, etc.

2. 1. Left-wing Writers' Union: the abbreviation of "China Left-wing Writers' Union" was established in Shanghai on March 2, 1930. More than 40 people, including Lu Xun, attended the inaugural meeting of the Chinese Left-wing Writers' Union, at which the theoretical program of the Left-wing Writers' Union was adopted, and it was declared that "standing at the forefront of the struggle for proletarian liberation" and "engaging in proletarian art" were the goals of the Left-wing Writers' Union. The Left Alliance has carried out a series of literary activities, strengthened the translation and dissemination of Marxist literary theory, promoted the popularization of literature and art, actively carried out creative work and trained a large number of new writers.

2.2. Social analysis novels: In the history of literature, "social analysis novels" are also called "social analysis novels". The main writers are Mao Dun, Sha Ting, Ai Wu and Wu Zuxiang, mostly left-wing writers. Its characteristic is to observe and analyze social phenomena from the political and economic aspects of society by using class viewpoint, so as to explain the truth of life in essence and correctly predict the direction of social development. In the early 1930s, Mao Dun, Wu Zuxiang, Sha Ting, Ai Wu and other "social analysis school" writers created a number of works that calmly analyzed social life. Under the cover of ideological discourse, their descriptions of various artistic techniques such as landscape painting and genre painting with strong "local color" and "exotic sentiment" are not only a historical response to the early "local realism school", but also create a new paradigm of local novels, providing useful resources and enlightenment for the creation of local novels in the 1940s and even after the founding of New China.

2.3. Northeast Writers Group: refers to a group of literary youths who fled to Shanhaiguan from the northeast after the "September 18th Incident" and spontaneously started literary creation under the impetus of the left-wing literary movement. Their works reflect the tragic experience of the people in Northeast China under the iron hoof of the Japanese invaders, and express their hatred for the invaders, nostalgia for their hometown and strong desire to recover their homeland at an early date. Their works are rough and grand in style, describing the customs of Northeast China and showing strong local color. Xiao Jun, Xiao Hong, Shu Qun and Duanmu Hongliang are the main writers in Northeast China. Xiao Hong's Biography of Hulan River, Field of Life and Death, and Xiao Jun's August Village, etc.

2.4. Writers of Beijing School: It was a unique literary school in 1930s, and its main members were Fei Ming, Shen Congwen, Li Jianwu and Zhu Guangqian. It is called "Beijing School" because its authors were engaged in literary activities in Beijing and Tianjin at that time, and their works were published in publications in Beijing and Tianjin, and their artistic styles were basically the same. The main publications are Literature Magazine, Literature Quarterly, and Ta Kung Pao Literature and Art. Its basic feature is to pay attention to life, but keep a distance from political struggle and emphasize the unique character of art. Their thought is a view of literary ontology embodied in "pure literary interest", and the basic principles of their creation are "harmony", "moderation" and "appropriateness". Shen Congwen is the first writer of Beijing School.

2.5. New Sensation School: The "New Sensation School" novel, which appeared in the early 1930s, is an integral part of China's modern literary creation. The basic feature of "New Sensation School" novels is to emphasize the writer's subjective feelings, rather than the real description of objective life. Liu Naou is the first experimenter in the novel of "New Sensation School". 1September, 928, he founded the semimonthly "Trolley Train", which marked the beginning of China's "New Sensation School" novel. Liu Naou's collection of short stories "Urban Scenery" is the first collection of "New Sensation School" novels in modern China. Night of Plum Rain is Shi Zhecun's masterpiece. Mu Shiying's "Shanghai Foxtrot Dance", known as the "master of the New Sensation School", shows a typical modernist style.