Formerly known as Yu Mingheng, the word Pingbo, he used pseudonyms such as Pingchu and Guhuai. Deqing, Zhejiang. Classical literature researcher, red scientist, modern writer and poet.
1900 Suzhou native, grandson of Yu Yue, a famous scholar in the late Qing Dynasty. At the age of 9, he entered a private school,191studied English and arithmetic in Shanghai, 19 15 entered Suzhou Pingjiang middle school, and was admitted to the literature department of Peking University in the same year. 19 18 joined the trendy society as a secretary. 19 19 graduated, and taught in Hangzhou First Normal University and Shanghai University successively. I studied in England for a while and received an education in America. 192 1 Join the Literature Research Association. 1923, park society was established with Zheng Zhenduo, Shen Yanbing and others. From 65438 to 0924, he went to Peiping, taught in Peiping Foreign Language School and yenching university successively, and served as a lecturer in Peking University, Tsinghua University and Normal University. Professor Yu Pingbo, 193 1 Tsinghua University, taught in private Chinese Academy during the Anti-Japanese War, and 1943 was the head of the literature department of the school. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he served as Professor Peking University from 65438 to 0952. 1952 researcher of Peking University literature research institute, which was later merged into the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences of China Academy of Sciences (now China Academy of Social Sciences). 1956 was rated as a first-class researcher. He was elected as a deputy to the National People's Congress, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a member of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles.
In his early years, Yu Pingbo joined the trendy society, literature research society, park society, silk society and other groups, and made great achievements in the creation of modern poetry and prose. His poems are mainly lyrical, lonely and carefree, paying attention to the creation of artistic conception and the tempering of language. He is good at expressing new ideas by using the situation of old poems, and his forms are free and diverse. Influenced by Zhou Zuoren, prose pursues a sense of indifference, and the writing is subtle and euphemistic. Since 192 1, I have paid attention to and studied A Dream of Red Mansions, replaced subjective speculation with scientific textual research, explored the internal connotation of A Dream of Red Mansions, quoted a large number of internal evidences in A Dream of Red Mansions, and combined with Yu Pingbo's introduction, confirmed that the last forty chapters were Cao Xueqin's original works, thus forming a theory of faith and becoming a representative figure of new redology. In addition, he also dabbled in poetry research from The Book of Songs and Songs of the South to Han and Wei Dynasties, Tang and Song Dynasties, Yuanqu, Qing Dynasty and modern times.
Main works: Poems: Winter Night, Returning to the West, Memories, etc. Prose Collection: Yan, Zazi, Zazi II, Yanjiao Collection, Selected Prose of Yu Pingbo, Preface and Postscript Collection of Yu Pingbo, etc. A Study of A Dream of Red Mansions: An Analysis of A Dream of Red Mansions, A Brief Introduction to A Dream of Red Mansions (Paper), A Collection of Comments on A Dream of Red Mansions by Zhi Yanzhai, A Dream of Red Mansions in Eighty Years, A Description of Twelve Women in A Dream of Red Mansions, etc. Poetry research: Reading Notes on Poetry (paper), Reading Notes on Fan Heng's Room for Enlightening Wisdom (paper), Accidental Reading of Ci, Interpretation of Ci * * *, On Miscellaneous Poems, Selected Interpretation of Ci in Tang and Song Dynasties, etc.