In his life, he wrote more than 90 books with 65,438+005 volumes, which were read by Chinese all over the world. Some people describe the popularity of Levin's works as "where there are wells, there is Jin Yong, and where there are villages and towns, there is Levin". Among them, Hu Xueyan, Biography of Empress Dowager Cixi and Dream of Red Mansions made him one of the most famous historical novelists.
Levin's life:
1922 March 15 was born in Qiao Heng, Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Xu Yanqing is Levin's real name, his spectrum is Ruhong, and his name is Yan Bing. Pen names: Levin, Wang Jun, Shiyu, RuHong, etc. Levin was born in a noble family in Qiantang, and his father Xu Baopu was a scholar in the Qing Dynasty. He died young and was brought up by his mother.
1953, two novels, Tiger and Rose and Feifei, appeared.
From 65438 to 0957, she served as the secretary of Wang Shuming, the chief of staff of the Ministry of National Defense of Taiwan Province Province, and began to enter the literary world in Taipei, and her reputation gradually rose. After leaving the army, he served as editor-in-chief of China Daily and special editor-in-chief of Taiwan Province Central Daily.
1962, Levin serialized his first historical novel "Li Wa" in the supplement of the United Daily News, which was well received.
1987, at the invitation of the Institute of Cultural Studies of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, delivered a speech entitled "The Author's Background"; In the same year, at the invitation of Japanese Meiyuan Association, he gave a speech about Empress Dowager Cixi and Ito Bowen.
1989 1 month was rushed to veterans general hospital due to lung disease and was discharged at the end of March; On March 1 day of the same year, water was selected into the Gold List of Good Books of China Times. On August 5th, he began to serialize his last work "Suzhou Gege" in the United Daily News.
Levin's achievements:
Many works by Taiwanese historical novelist Levin are very popular in Chinese mainland. In the past 20 years, many publishing houses have rushed to publish, and pirated books can be seen everywhere, which shows the popularity of Levin.
Mainland readers are also familiar with Levin's historical novel "Flowers in August" adapted from TV screen. Many readers think that Levin's level of writing historical novels is unprecedented, and modern people can't match it.
At present, historical novels are hot-selling, and writers who write historical themes emerge one after another. Pick out the outstanding writers in this batch and compare them with Levin and the "martial arts novels" group. Levin is comparable to Jin Yong, and other historical novelists can only compare with Liang Yusheng at most.
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The origin of Levin's pen name:
Levin, whose real name is Xu, once used the pen names Levin,, and Ruhong. Levin's name is widely known to readers, but his real name is not widely known.
Levin's pen name is for a reason. Levin has been a good wine all his life, but he has no wine and no articles for a day. Self-styled "wine drinker", he once lamented: No smoke and no wine, born in He Huan, why live! Therefore, some people think that his pen name comes from "Levin drunk". But this is not the case.
According to Levin, he came from a noble family named Xu and was sealed in Levin. He was named Levin after this county.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Xu Yanqing