At 9 o'clock every night, the editors who come to the newspaper for manuscripts line up in front of the Zhangjiamen. Zhang Henshui bowed his head and worked hard on the manuscript paper, writing thousands of words in one breath. Even one day, he was addicted to mahjong tables, and the newspaper came to urge the manuscript. He played mahjong with his left hand and wrote with his right hand, so he handed in his manuscript on time.
On February 8th, 1956, Mao Zedong met with Zhang Henshui and others in Huairentang, Zhongnanhai.
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Zhang Henshui wrote 120 novels and a large number of essays, poems and travel notes. Nearly 40 million words, unparalleled among modern writers. His representative works include History of Spring and Ming Dynasty, Family of Golden Powder, Cause of Crying and Laughing, Eighty-one Dreams, etc. He is a best-selling author, known as "Dumas of China" and "the first writer of the Republic of China".
His works inherited Zhang Hui's novels, enlightened popular novels, appealed to both refined and popular tastes, successfully innovated Zhang Hui's old novels and promoted the blending of new literature and popular literature. Mao Dunzan said, "If Zhang Huiti is used to eliminate good and evil, and Zhang Huiti will be reborn, you must first push Teacher Zhang Henshui." Lao She called him "the only old writer known to all women and children in China".
In Beijing in 1930s, five or six newspapers serialized several novels of Zhang Henshui at the same time. At two or three o'clock every afternoon, many readers line up in front of the newspaper office to get a sneak peek. In the novel, a heroine is dying because of overwork, and letters from readers flock to the newspaper to plead for her in unison.
His masterpiece "The Reason for Laughing and Crying" was reprinted more than 20 times and made into a film six times, setting a record. There are also unscrupulous booksellers who stole the name of Zhang Henshui, saved more than 100 fake books and sold them in the market, which sold well.
During the period of 1928, he wrote six novels, including Overseas History of Spring Ming, New History of Spring Ming, Family of Golden Powder, Flowers of Youth and Heaven and Earth, which were serialized in different newspapers with different characters and plots.
At that time, there was a saying among friends in the literary and art circles that at nine o'clock every night, editors who came to the newspaper to beg for manuscripts lined up at the entrance of the Zhang family. Zhang Henshui bowed his head and worked hard on the manuscript paper, writing thousands of words in one breath. Even one day, he was addicted to mahjong tables, and the newspaper came to urge the manuscript. He played mahjong with his left hand and wrote with his right hand, so he handed in his manuscript on time.
His readers range from Confucian scholars to Ding Bai. Chen Yinque, a great scholar known as "the professor among professors", is also a fan of Zhang Henshui. As early as in The National SouthWest Associated University, Chen Yinque was seriously ill and blind. He invited his good friend Wu Mi to the school library, borrowed Zhang Henshui's novel Sword, Courage and Heart, and read it to him every day.
/kloc-When she was 0/3 years old, Zhang Ailing read a series of popular novels about water at the bookstall. The tortuous plot deeply attracted her. Later, she specially found some books to read. After that, Zhang Ailing had a whim. If only I could write some popular novels. In this way, she began to enter the literary world.
Lu Xun's mother is a fan of Zhang Henshui's short stories. Every time Zhang Henshui's new book is published, Lu Xun will buy it back to his old mother. The author looked up The New Biography of the Water Margin and saw 1934 a letter written by Lu Xun to his mother when he was in Shanghai:
"Mother's adult respected. Three days ago, she bought a dozen complete works of Lu Xun, and the other three "Golden Powder Family" were all made by Zhang Henshui. They were sent by World Press in two packages. I think they have arrived, but I haven't seen it yet and I don't know what's inside. "
In Zhang Henshui's daughter Zhang Zheng's memory, her father "started writing at about nine o'clock every day, and didn't put down his pen for dinner until six or seven o'clock in the afternoon. After dinner, he had a rest for a while, and then he wrote until twelve o'clock in the evening and the next day.
Zhang Henshui's "manuscript morality" is also discussed in newspaper editors. Ask him for the manuscript, give him almost everything, and never delay. Serialized for five years and four months, my daughter died of scarlet fever, so sad that she was confined for one day. After 24 hours, the draft was supplemented.
At that time, high-ranking politicians were proud of making friends with Zhang Henshui. Chiang Kai-shek and Song Meiling visited, and Zhang Henshui received them politely, but let the servants send them out; Zhang Xueliang sent an adjutant to Beijing, invited him to be a cultural consultant, and hung up a vacant position. Monthly salary 100, Zhang Henshui declined as "a gentleman is not from one side".
This "countryman" with a southern Anhui accent has followed the principle of "sweating and eating by himself" all his life, and his attitude is extremely low-key. He once said to himself, "Writing is just a business. Just like a small business like a stall, it is as dull. "
What he is proud of is that "his big house in Beiping was bought with the payment of the manuscript" and "there are more than 30 people in his family, and they live well with a pen". There are jujube trees, locust trees, cherry trees, mulberry trees and cloves planted by hunters mm in the yard. It's really interesting to see the snow and the moon in the yard through the big glass.