Since the mid-1920s, he has devoted himself to the creation of prose, including the collection of essays "The Back", "European Miscellanies", "You and Me" and "London Miscellanies", as well as the collection of essays "Standards and Measurement" and "Appreciation of Elegance and Vulgarity".
His prose includes landscape writing, travel notes, lyric poetry and prose. First of all, he wrote beautiful scenery with meticulous and beautiful "Qinhuai River in the Shadow of Paddle Lights" and "Moonlight on the Lotus Pond", showing the achievements of vernacular literature; Following the sentimental works such as The Back, Children and For the Dead Wife, he set up a model of "conversational" prose with strong literariness and naturalness. Finally, the mixed feelings of poets, scholars and fighters are unified with subtle language and interesting reasons. He contributed to the construction of the concise, lyrical and natural style of modern prose. ?
As a scholar, Zhu Ziqing has made great achievements in poetry theory, classical literature, the history of new literature and Chinese education. He is the author of Essays on New Poems, Arguments on Poems' Expression and Intention, Frequently Talking about Classics, Chinese Teaching (co-authored with Ye Shengtao) and Outline of China New Literature Research Lectures, etc. His works were included in The Complete Works of Zhu Ziqing (Jiangsu Education Press).
Zhu Ziqing worked hard all his life. There are 26 kinds of poems, essays, reviews and academic research works, with more than two million words. His posthumous works were compiled into Zhu Ziqing's Collection and Zhu Ziqing's Selected Poems. Zhu Ziqing's articles, such as "Hurry" and "Spring", have been included in Chinese textbooks for primary and secondary schools in China.
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As a "post-90s" young man, I think Mr. Zhu Ziqing should be a very important guide for me if I have started to learn some basic knowledge about China's traditional ancient books and classics.
Mr. Zhu Ziqing, 1898, was born in Haizhou, Jiangsu Province (now Donghai County). Mr. Zhu Ziqing has a long history and literature, especially good at poetic theory. He is not only a famous poet and essayist, but also an outstanding scholar and generalist. Mr. Zhu Ziqing's prose not only played a great role in our childhood enlightenment, but also read it constantly and tirelessly. Mr. Zhu Ziqing's academic works are classic textbooks for the enlightenment of many adult cultures.
Mr. Yao Yao, a famous literary historian, studied under Mr. Zhu Ziqing in his youth. Mr. Yao Yao said in the article "Reading Mr. Zhu Ziqing": "Although he is an accomplished expert, he does not despise the popularization of academic work. He not only noticed the academic height and depth, but also noticed the breadth acceptable to ordinary people. " It was Mr Zhu Ziqing's pamphlet Classic Talk that led me to China's study of traditional classics. This book was compiled by Mr. Zhu Ziqing for the then Ministry of Education in September 1938, and was compiled and published in September 1942. This book is easy to understand, plain and simple, with almost no esoteric terms. It is rich in content, clear in organization, easy to understand, relaxed and interesting. "It is indeed a rare reading material for popularizing ancient literature knowledge."
This book mainly introduces the classics of ancient books, covering the required reading of a subset of classics and history, similar to the introduction of famous books. The book takes the study of Chinese characters as the first, the interpretation of Chinese characters as the first, the Zhouyi as the second, the Shangshu as the third, the Book of Songs as the fourth, Li San as the fifth, the Spring and Autumn Annals as the sixth, the Four Books as the seventh, the Warring States Policy as the eighth, the historical records as the ninth, and the Hanshu as the ninth. The thirteenth chapter is the last chapter of this book, which means to summarize this book.
"New Style" from Oracle Bone Inscriptions to the late Qing Dynasty and the smooth development of vernacular Chinese after the May 4th Movement. At the end of the book, Mr. Zhu Ziqing said: "Everything in China is in the process of modernization, and it is not surprising that the modernization of language is also a natural trend." It has been 80 years since Mr. Zhu Ziqing wrote this sentence. Today, instead of being out of date, it seems to explain what is happening now.
Mr. Zhu Ziqing's pamphlet "Classic Talk" became my enlightenment teaching material when I was an adult. Mr. Zhu Ziqing prefaced the book and said: "If readers can regard it as a ship and sail to the sea of classics, editors will be glad that they have done their part in the classic training. But if readers read this book and think that they have been trained by classics and no longer want to read classics, that is to disappoint the editor. " If I am a fisherman who wants to gain something from the classic sea, then Mr. Zhu Ziqing's book is a gift from him.
Reference source Xinhuanet read Classic Talk to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Zhu Ziqing's death.