The History of Vernacular Literature is a history of vernacular literature discussed by Hu Shi, and it also has a pioneering and landmark position in the history of China literature. It can be said that the History of Vernacular Literature is Hu Shi's most famous article.
With a brand-new thinking and structural framework, the author reveals the laws and characteristics of the development of China literature. His breakthrough achievements are as follows: breaking the narrow framework of previous literature history research, expanding his vision to a wide range of fields other than classic writers' works, and greatly broadening the connotation of China literature history; In the research method, pay attention to longitudinal investigation and horizontal comparison; Jump out of traditional thinking prejudice and judge China ancient literature with brand-new aesthetics and values.
The history of vernacular literature is simplified and arranged horizontally to adapt to the reading habits of modern readers. The postscript briefly introduces the author and his works, which is helpful for modern readers to deepen their understanding. Coupled with a small number of historical pictures, illustrated, so that readers understand the world, know the world. Carefully selected, properly bound and beautifully printed, it is not only an important channel for literature and history lovers to understand the academic culture of the Republic of China, but also a treasure worth collecting by book lovers.
Hu Shi's creative characteristics
Hu Shi's poems belong to the pioneering work of China's modern poems, and retain the features and features of modern poems when they were first created. With regard to the connotation of poetry, Hu Shi put forward the view that writing articles is not moaning without illness in On Literary Improvement, and pointed the finger at those poems that hurt spring and grieve autumn, thinking that these poems are full of cliches, which shows that Hu Shi is quite dissatisfied with some traditional poems that have been passed down from generation to generation without novelty, affectation and moaning without illness, which Hu Shi also rejected.
In terms of image, Hu Shi began to be rooted in the abstract level of thought, system, spirit and technology, making the created image abstract instead of concrete; At the same time, Hu Shi began to pay attention to the influence of image description on thought, language, structure and temperament. Therefore, Hu Shi's thoughts and feelings about traditional images are different from the past.