2. Expanding knowledge:
1. About the author: Duanmu Hongliang, formerly known as Cao Hanwen, is from Changtu County, Liaoning Province. In 1928, he entered Tianjin Nankai Middle School. In 1932, he was admitted to the History Department of Tsinghua University, joined the "Left League" in the same year, and published his first novel Mother. In 1933, he began to write the novel "Horqin Banner Grassland", which was completed in 1935 and became one of the masterpieces that had an important influence on the Northeast writers in the 193s. On the eve of the founding of New China in 1949, Duanmu returned to Beijing from Hongkong. In May 196, he married Zhong Yaoqun. In 198, Duanmu was elected as the vice chairman of Beijing Writers Association, and in 1984, he was elected as the director of Chinese Writers Association. In 1985, the middle volume of Cao Xueqin (co-authored with his wife Zhong Yaoqun) was published. On October 5, 1996, he died in Beijing due to illness at the age of 84.
The main works include the novel Horqin Banner Grassland, the sea of the earth, the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, the collection of short stories, the oath of the land, hatred, fenglingdu, the fairy tale The Star, the Peking Opera Qi Jiguang's beheading, the elimination of three evils, the pingju Luohanqian, butterfly lovers and the collection of long historical novels Cao. At the same time, the article "The Oath of the Land" was accepted as the ninth lesson of the Chinese textbook of the seventh grade and the sixteenth lesson of the sixth grade of shandong education press by People's Education Press. The novel Cao Xueqin has a great influence.
2. Introduction of Zi inkstone: Zi inkstone is a traditional handicraft of Han nationality in Shandong Province, and it belongs to one of the famous inkstones in China. Zi inkstone has a history of more than 13 years. Stone inkstone produced in Zichuan County, Shandong Province. The inkstone material is meticulous and extremely inky. It was very popular to make inkstone with purple stone in the Northern Song Dynasty. Ming Yuhuai's "The Forest of Inks" contains: "Song Xining is still a stone inkstone, and the gods chose the * * * excellent one to give Sima Wengong." Zishi had the names of yun yu, Venus, Green Gold and Moyu in the Northern Song Dynasty. There are many people who can make inkstones with stones because of the mountainous terrain.
3. Inscription: Inscription means that the ancients added inscriptions to bronze ritual vessels to record the reasons for casting the vessels, the figures commemorated or sacrificed, etc. Later, it generally refers to the words deliberately left on various vessels to record the time and place when the vessels were made, the names of craftsmen and workshops, etc.