Mao Dun: The most authoritative literature prize in China today is called "Mao Dun Literature Prize". There is a small problem with this award, that is, only novels are selected. Mao Dun's life is inseparable from politics. For a writer, I really don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing. Personally, I think Mao Dun's best work is Spring Silkworm. As for Midnight, it is a landmark work in China's modern novel history. But I have to say that there were still many shortcomings in the application of skills in the novels at that time, and it is still a bit boring to read today. I think the greatest significance of reading this work is to teach people how to write a model work.
Ba Jin: Cold Night is highly recommended. I believe it will be an immortal work. Literature can surpass the times because literary works have an eternal theme-expressing human nature. Although the work Cold Night has the background of the Anti-Japanese War, the touching things in it belong to any era. Ba Jin was an anarchist in his early years, and his works were full of passion. Ba Jin is named after two anarchist masters, bakunin and Krupotkin. The so-called love trilogy "Fog, Rain and Electricity" (and a short story "Thunder") should actually be a revolutionary trilogy (to avoid the censorship at that time). Reading these books is conducive to understanding terrorism today. As for the most famous "Home", "Spring" and "Autumn", I think there is really nothing to see today. Ba Jin's work "Random Thoughts" in his later years is worth reading. It is the crystallization of Ba Lao's life thought and is full of an intellectual's reflection on the Cultural Revolution.
Lao She: During the hundred years in China, there were two masters of vernacular Chinese, the modern Lao She and the contemporary Wang Xiaobo. Lao She first started his literary creation with the mentality of playing, so he "played with tickets" and became a master of literature. Lao She's works vividly depict Beijing in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, and relatively written spoken English makes people absolutely have no reading difficulties today. Excellent works in this field include Camel Xiangzi and My Life. Novels can sometimes be read as history. For example, teaching America in the early 20th century today will make students read The Great Gatsby, which is far more interesting than boring history books. In addition, the novella "Broken Soul Gun" is definitely a masterpiece, which shows Lao She's skill. It should have been a masterpiece of Under the Red Flag, but it was not finished (the novel was written in the early 1960s, and Lao She sank to the bottom of the lake before it was finished). The completed part is less than 6,543,800 words, which is still worth reading.
Shen Congwen: Reading Shen Congwen's words is a pleasure. A few years ago, I went to Fenghuang Ancient Town and made a special trip to see Shen Congwen's tomb. Compared with the bustling ancient city, it is much colder there. The tombstone is engraved with the words "16", which reads: "Never fail, the stars are full of words; Also kind and let, the child is also human. " This is a portrayal of Shen Congwen's life. Shen Congwen called himself a "countryman" all his life. He despises the hypocritical and hurried life in the city and yearns for a pure and simple life. When Shen Congwen first became famous, he couldn't even use punctuation marks, and his language was very fluent and concise. It is a good choice to read Shen Congwen's works if you want to practice your language control ability. There are prose collections Xiangxi and Xiangxi San Ji. The most famous novels are Border Town and Long River. I like the three short stories of Sansan, Xiaoxiao and Husband very much. The autobiographical work Congwen Autobiography can be said to be a model of autobiographical style. In addition, Shen Congwen has a book "Ancient Culture", which is a good book to understand ancient culture.
Zhang Ailing: Zhang Ailing said that there are three hates in life: one is that begonia is tasteless, the other is that shad is prickly, and the third is that the red chamber is unfinished. In 1990s, Zhang Ailing fever began to appear in Chinese mainland, and it has continued to this day. There are many amazing sentences in Zhang Ailing's book, which fascinates the sentence controllers. The description of human nature has always been a missing link in China's literature, among which Zhang Ailing may have gone the farthest. Zhang Ailing's most famous works are The Golden Lock (praised by Xia Zhiqing as China's greatest novella since ancient times) and Love in a Fallen City. Most of her works are novellas, and now they are generally published in the form of collections. I have to mention that many publishing houses are all under the banner of "Complete Works of Zhang Ailing", but they are not at all, let alone incomplete letters. After Zhang Ailing left the mainland, she wrote some novels with the tendency of hostility to the new regime, such as Love in the Naked Land and Yangko, which still cannot be officially published. In addition, Zhang Ailing also has autobiographical trilogy little reunion, Leifeng Tower and Yijing. Zhang Ailing's life is legendary (her earliest anthology is also called legend), and her biography is well worth reading.
Cao Yu: In his later years, Cao Yu once borrowed the story of "Wang Zuo's broken arm" and said, "You also know that I am disabled." After the Cultural Revolution, Cao Yu wanted to continue writing, but he couldn't write good works. This is the tragedy of that generation. Cao Yu instinctively became a world-class playwright, knowing that he was only 23 years old when he wrote Thunderstorm. Cao Yu's four classic plays are Thunderstorm, Sunrise, Yuan Ye and Peking Man. I think it's quite interesting to read the script, but after all, drama is used for acting, and you may not understand many things just by reading the text. Now, except in big cities, it is really difficult to find a decent place to see a decent play.
Guo Moruo: Actually, I don't want to mention it, but I have to mention it. The status of modern literary writers has a classic ranking, which is called "Lu and Ba Lao Cao", namely Lu Xun, Guo Moruo, Mao Dun, Ba Jin, Lao She and Cao Yu. Today, it seems that Guo Moruo's second position is somewhat abrupt, among which political factors account for more. Today many people like to satirize Guo Moruo's deeds and poems in his later years. To be fair, a person's artistic attainments should be evaluated by his highest-level works, not by his entertainment works (it is said that the works in The Complete Works of Guo Moruo circulated on the Internet are untrue and should be fabricated). Guo Moruo is a versatile genius whose main achievement is not literature. His poems and plays, such as Goddess, Qu Yuan and Wang Zhaojun, are meaningless today. Guo Moruo has made great achievements in the history of Oracle Bone Inscriptions and China. If you are interested in this aspect, you can look at his works, such as Li Bai and Du Fu, and China Ancient Society Research.
Qian Zhongshu: If you only plan to read two works by modern writers, I recommend Ba Jin's Cold Night and Qian Zhongshu's Fortress Besieged. Fortress Besieged was published on 1947. It was abandoned by the new era just after its birth, and it was not taken seriously until the 1980s. When I was a freshman, I watched Besieged City for the first time. At that time, I was most interested in Fang Hung-chien's emotional entanglements with several women and the witty remarks in the book. Reading Fortress Besieged before the postgraduate entrance examination, what I care most about is the description of the fate of intellectuals in the great era and the hypocrisy behind it; Looking back at this book now, I began to understand the meaning of the novel's name-the dilemma of life, and began to be moved by the fate and experience of the characters in the book, especially roaming in the snow at the end of the novel. As for Qian Zhongshu's academic masterpiece "Guan Zui Bian", he wrote reading notes in classical Chinese, which I can't understand. Those who have certain academic attainments must see it, which is all-encompassing.
Yu Dafu: When Yu Dafu's "Sinking" was published, young people went to Shanghai by train overnight and burst into tears. They shouted like the hero in the novel: "motherland, motherland, you will be rich soon!" " Be Big! You still have many children suffering there! "Yu Dafu left an image of a deep-felt talented person to future generations. Interested people can look at his story with Wang Yingxia, the first beauty in Hang Cheng. During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, Yu Dafu worked as an undercover in China in the Japanese army. The victory of the Anti-Japanese War was secretly killed by the Japanese army before the Japanese army retreated, which made people sigh. Yu Dafu's works are mostly short stories and essays, with decadent, hateful and sentimental styles. You can buy a copy of his anthology and read it, with emphasis on Sinking and A Night Intoxicated by Spring Breeze.
Xiao Hong: "I will always be with the blue sky and clear water, leaving half of A Dream of Red Mansions to others to write. I will be treated coldly for the rest of my life ... I will die first, unwilling, unwilling." This is Xiao Hong's last words, only 3 1 year old. The filming of the film "Golden Age" makes people pay attention to the short life of this legendary woman writer again today. Among modern female writers, who has higher literary achievements, Zhang Ailing or Xiao Hong, is a question that people are willing to discuss today. Xiao Hong's folk position writing was exactly what she lacked at that time. Biography of Hulan River is a masterpiece, and this book is also very suitable for children to read. In addition, The Field of Life and Death and Xiao Hong's essays recalling Lu Xun are also worth reading.
Xiao Jun: Xiao Hong and Xiao Jun together mean "Little Red Army". Xiao Hong's brilliance really hides Xiao Jun's existence. He can only be a green leaf. But among the Northeast writers at that time, Xiao Jun was no less famous than Xiao Hong. His masterpiece is Village in August, but in my opinion, it is better to know the life of Xiao Jun. Xiao Jun is a writer with great backbone. When invited by Mao Zedong in Yan 'an, he dared to say, "I am very busy and have never seen him." Everyone in the Yan 'an rectification movement tried to preserve his sanity, but he still stood still, so that he was sent to the northeast to dig coal for several years. Xiao Jun is worthy of being a student of Lu Xun. By the way, there are many tidbits in Xiaojun's life
Zhou Zuoren: There is a special word about Zhou Zuoren being a traitor, which is called throwing himself into the water to join the enemy. In the literary world of China in the 1920s and 1930s, Zhou Zuoren was second only to his brother Lu Xun. The discord between Lu Xun and Zhou Zuoren's brothers is also a case-solving in the history of literature. After Lu Xun's death, people hoped that Zhou Zuoren would carry the banner of the literary world. It's a pity that he didn't relax and became a traitor (this problem is very complicated. If you are interested, you can see Qian Liqun's On Zhou Zuoren). Zhou Zuoren's prose is well written. "Drinking tea under the tile window, green spring tea, using simple but elegant ceramic tea sets, and two or three people * * *, can have a half-day leisure, which can be worth ten years of dust dreams. ("Drinking Tea") "Using a word to describe its style is" astringent ",that is, it is not straightforward, repeated and repeated. Another major feature of Zhou Zuoren is his profound knowledge, which is no less than Qian Zhongshu's "management belt". You can buy an anthology of Zhou Zuoren's prose and have a look.
Zhang Henshui: Probably the richest literati in the Republic of China, he wrote books by himself and supported a large family of seventy or eighty people. How rich is Zhang Henshui? According to him, if nothing else, just raising chrysanthemums will cost him 1000 yuan a year. Today, the ratio of ocean to RMB is 1 200, and some people say it is 1 300. Someone once asked Lu Xun's mother, do you read her son's books? The answer is, no, I read Zhang Henshui. In the popular literature of modern literature, Zhang Henshui is the first person in Tian Zi. Zhang Henshui's works are numerous and high-level, and he wrote 120 novellas in his life. His works can be said to have broken the boundaries between elegance and vulgarity. It is generally acknowledged that his best works are The History of Spring and Ming Dynasty, A Family of Golden Powder, and The Cause of Laughing and Crying.
Lin Yutang: In my eyes, Lin Yutang is first a translator, then an essayist and finally a novelist. Lin Yutang's literary achievements are mainly in prose, and "humor" is the main style of his prose, and the word has also been translated into Chinese by him. Lin Yutang can write in English. He specially wrote a set of books introducing China to Americans, among which My Country and My People and Su Dongpo's Biography are still worth reading. Lin Yutang's prose advocates leisure, relaxation and humor. Life is like this, and it's quite interesting. As for the novel "Clouds in Beijing", the name is quite good, but the level is average, and the same theme is far less than that of Zhang Henshui.
Liang Shiqiu: In the same style, I prefer Liang Shiqiu to Lin Yutang in prose. Today, Liang Shiqiu is not well-known because his thoughts are out of tune with most people at that time, and he went to Taiwan Province Province after liberation, which influenced the mainland's evaluation of him today. However, it is precisely because of this that he was able to continue writing after 1949. Liang Shiqiu has left a lot of works in his life, and he is a leader among prose writers. It is very emotional to recommend his Essays on Elegant Rooms. I like his sentence "You go, I won't see you off;": You come, there will be no heavy wind and rain, and I'll pick you up. "
The names of the following writers may sound strange to people today, but their works also have many excellent works, which are still worth reading today.
Shi tuo: a rare northern writer in the history of modern literature. There is such a plot in the TV series "Latency". One of the liaison stations of the underground party in China is the bookstore. They said they had news to send, and the signal was "Master Tuo's collection has arrived". Shi tuo, as the name implies, is not a writer who writes by intelligence. Shi tuo's works were not influenced by the ideological debate at that time, which was very rare in that big era. Recommend his Orchard City and Marriage.
Zhang Tianyi: Satire literature is a scarce part of our national literature. Although Zhang Tianyi is a writer with strong ideology, his stories are well written, and his satirical and humorous skills are comparable to Dickens'. There is a work called Pidgin Wonder Man, which, in today's words, is a senior black work. Mr. Warwick is his masterpiece. It is worth mentioning that Zhang Tianyi wrote a lot of children's literature in his later years.
Bian He Dai Wangshu: The Republic of China was the era of poets, and here we only talk about the two of them. Many new poems of the Republic of China, even today, can still win a prize such as China 20XX New Poetry List. Bian Zhilin is the Rain Lane written by Dai Wangshu, who said, "You are standing on the bridge watching the scenery, and people watching the scenery are watching you upstairs", and people today also like it very much. There is a book called Selected Poems of Modern and Contemporary Times, and all the poems selected in it are not bad. You can buy a book to read. As for Xu Zhimo, it is said that it was ironic for the Chinese Department in the 1980s to say that "this person likes Xu Zhimo". With the increase of reading poems and rich personal experience, Xu Zhimo's poems will become more and more boring.
Xu Dishan: Do you still remember Peanut in the middle school textbook? The writer is Xu Dishan. His works are full of religious feelings, and his works can read the feelings of transcending secularism, fraternity and tolerance. "I am like a spider, and fate is my web. I made a net and still live in the center. " This is a sentence from Weaving Spiders. Rain in the Empty Mountains is a collection of his essays.
Shi Zhecun, Liu Naou and Mu Shiying: Their works are modernist novels of our nation. They injected factors such as stream of consciousness and psychoanalysis into their novels. If you like Faulkner and Joyce's works, I believe you will also like these three writers.
Anonymous: This is his pen name ... He is a writer of popular novels, and his "The North Pole" and "The Woman in the Tower" were the best-selling works in the 1940s. This situation may be similar to that few people have read Mo Yan and Yu Hua today, but many people have read Nanpai's uncle Han Han and Jing Ke Jing M.Guo. For novels, beauty is always the last word. The Book of the Unknown is a grand work with seven volumes and nearly 3 million words, covering society, history, literature, art, philosophy, life and mankind.
The representative of martial arts novels in the Republic of China. The legend of the swordsman in Shushan is probably the longest novel in human history. It was not counted until today. The recently published full version is about 5 million words. Lu Xun never wrote so many words in his diary in his life. In recent decades, many film and television dramas have adapted this work, such as Tsui Hark's Shu Shan. The spread of Swordsman from Shushan to People's Republic of China (PRC) was not over yet. After that, the author secretly created it, but the manuscript seems to have been lost and finally not finished. Fortunately, someone wrote the ending today, and a finished version has been published, so you can buy it.
White, Zheng Zhengyin, Wang Dulu, and Zhu Zhenmu: They are also called "Five Heroes of the Northern School" with Princess Huanzhu. Our country's martial arts novels are not only "golden", these martial arts writers in the Republic of China can be said to be their predecessors. There is a big difference between the current martial arts and the old-school martial arts, that is, martial arts novelists in the Republic of China often really understand martial arts, and many people like this old-school style (as can be seen from the increase of kung fu films in the Republic of China in recent years). Wang Dulu is probably the most famous one, and the famous movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is adapted from his novel of the same name.
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I like Su Like Schumann's ancient poems very much. "When will I go back to Zhechao?" ? A whore is unknown, and I have set foot on the cherry blossom bridge. "
Hu Shi is a pioneer of modern literature, but his achievements in literature are not high. For the introduction, please read Hu Cun.
Ye Shengtao is good at writing intellectuals, exposing a lot of darkness in the field of education at that time (and now). His representative works include Mr. Pan's Disaster and Ni Huanzhi.
Fei Ming (Feng Wenbing) and Shen Congwen are similar in style, simple but elegant. He writes about rural areas and villages, including Taoyuan and The Story of Bamboo Forest, all of which are novels and essays.
Zhu Ziqing: A well-known essayist, The Miscellaneous Notes of Europe Tour is worth reading.
Ding Ling's early works, such as Monk and Diary of Ms. Sha Fei, are worth reading.
Lu Yin, Ling Shuhua, Su Qing and Mei Niang were famous female writers in the Republic of China, especially Su Qing's Ten Years of Marriage and Ten Years of Continued Marriage, which are still being read by many people.
In Taiwan Province, Wu's Orphan in Asia has a great influence so far.
Finally, add a few points: there is a highest standard for the recommendation of this article, that is, works that are still worth reading today. After all, modern literature has been more than half a century, and some works can't be read by people today. Perhaps the significance of literary history is greater than that of literature, but there are still many works that can transcend the times.
With regard to the staging of modern literature, the academic circles generally think that it is from 19 17 to 1949, that is, from the new cultural movement to the establishment of People's Republic of China (PRC), but this definition often cannot stand scrutiny. There were vernacular novels before 19 17. 1949 The founding of New China was a political event, so it is not rigorous to define literature by politics. At present, there is a tendency in academic circles to push the upper limit of modern literature forward, some to the late Qing Dynasty, and the earliest to the late Ming Dynasty, that is, to keep pace with the world. This paper does not entangle these, or adopt general standards.