When the earth longs for rain, even a thunder or a cloud in the distance will make people happy. If there are raindrops floating down, people will be ecstatic to thank it, and the earth will always remember it. Live it... "Little Raindrops" is timely rain during drought!
Chen Hengzhe is a historian. Literature is not her specialty, but "every cell in her body is full of literary and artistic flavor" (Hu Shi said). She is a female writer who has made considerable contributions in the history of new literature. During the "May Fourth" period, Chen Hengzhe and Ren Hongjun
"She once sang the song of struggle", which indeed has indelible achievements.
Chen Hengzhe only has one short story collection "Little Raindrops" published earlier, two volumes of "Hengzhe's Prose Collection" and some unedited essays. But the "little raindrops" cast by her hard work once nourished the seedlings of new literature...
Chen Hengzhe was born in Wujin County, Jiangsu Province in 1890, which was at the end of the Qing Dynasty when the feudal society was collapsing. .
She said in her "Autobiography": "My grandfather is from Hengshan, Hunan; but because my grandmother and mother are both from Wujin, Jiangsu, and I was born there, even if I am from Wujin "People."
Chen Hengzhe's original name is Chen (Yannio), with the courtesy name Yidi, and he was born into a famous family. Her grandfather Chen Mei had twelve children; her father was the youngest son and became an official in the Qing Dynasty. He had five children, and Chen Hengzhe was the second.
In 1897, Chen Hengzhe's uncle Zhuang Sijin went to Guangxi and Guangdong to work as an official. At this time, her family moved from Hunan to Jiangsu to live with her maternal grandfather. She studied at home since she was a child and never went to elementary school. But her thoughts and talents were nurtured in her family environment. When he was about five or six years old, whenever his uncle went home to visit relatives, Chen Hengzhe always got up before dawn to visit his uncle. She hurriedly said hello to her grandmother, then ran to her uncle who had not yet gotten up and asked him to tell him a novel story.
Although she is a child, she listens to adults telling stories very seriously. Her uncle often hears and sees European and American culture, especially advances in medicine, in the city of Guangdong Province. His ideas were very new, and he admired Western science and culture, and even more admired the American women who came to China.
He told Chen Hengzhe about the Western hospitals, schools and various modern cultural life situations he saw. His last words were always: "You are an ambitious girl, you should study hard. An independent woman from the West."
At that time, Chen Hengzhe was most easily moved, and her uncle's last words often brought tears to her eyes. She asked her uncle: "How can I learn to be like them?" Her uncle said: "Go to school!..." Her uncle told her a lot about the world outside China, and she seemed to have traveled abroad again and again.