2. Mourning for the Past: The author of the short story Lu Xun was created in the May 4th period in the 1920s. Creative background: During the May 4th Movement, under the impact of the idea of "democracy and freedom", young people began to break the old concept of marriage and love and pursue freedom of love and marital autonomy. Lu Xun wants to tell young people through this article that marriage autonomy and freedom of love are not simple issues. If the social environment does not change, personality liberation can only be empty talk. The main characters in the article: Zijun and Juansheng.
3. A Night Indulged in the Spring Breeze: Author Yu Dafu, one of the main members of the Creation Society. His representative works include the novel Sinking, A Night Intoxicated by Spring Breeze, Wave Point, and Sweet Osmanthus. The novel was published during the May 4th Movement in the 1920s and belongs to short stories. Creative background: After the climax of the May 4th Movement, young intellectuals could not find a bright road to save the country and the people, so they suffered from a kind of "time disease": they were lost in compassion and hesitation, and at the same time, if they refused to go along with the society, they would be squeezed and persecuted by the society and unable to resist. The main character of the work: "I", female worker Chen.
4. Mr. Pan is in trouble: the author Ye Shengtao, also known as Ye, is one of the main members of the Literature Research Association. His representative works include the short story Mr. Pan is in trouble, Struggle, Overriding Three-Five Fighting, and the novel Ni Huanzhi. His works were published during the May 4th Movement in the 1920s. Creative background: During the period from May 4th to Five Kingdoms, the revolutionary movement was temporarily at a low ebb. At that time, the social situation was a scuffle between warlords, unstable political situation and social unrest. Under this historical background, the fate of the lower intellectuals is usually humble and embarrassing. Some intellectuals can't see the future clearly, their ideals are disillusioned, and they wander in a gray life without knowing it. On the basis of this social life, the author describes the "gray life" of a vulgar, humble and timid little intellectual. The main characters of the work: Mr. Pan, Mrs. Pan, etc.
5. Diary of Ms. Sha Fei: Diary of Ms. Sha Fei is a diary novella published by Ding Ling in the late 1920s. Creative background: Ding Ling is the second Daishan writer to write about women after the May 4th Movement, and has always adhered to the position of women. In the late 1920s, influenced by her mother and inspired by the May 4th New Culture Movement, Ding Ling was a new woman who consciously pursued freedom, democracy and personality liberation. Then, when the climax of the May 4th Movement receded, she once fell into a depressed atmosphere. Diary of Ms. Sha Fei reflects the intellectual mental state of young women under the background of this great era, and is a famous work of the writer. The image of Sha Fei is the most important example of a series of petty-bourgeois rebellious and depressed intellectual women in her early works after the ebb tide of the May 4th Movement. In Sha Fei, there is a betrayal of feudal ethics and an infinite yearning for the pursuit of "true love" and personality liberation. She stubbornly seeks the meaning of life in the case of nothing, despises the world and sometimes feels in danger of falling into debauchery, attaches importance to feelings and loves fantasy and fantasy more. This specifically reflects the shadow of the times cast by history on some intellectuals-making resistance morbid but still resisting. Sha Fei's depression is a true portrayal of a young man who lost his master after being influenced by the May 4th movement. The main characters in the works are Shafei, Di Wei and Ling Jishi.
6. Fortress Besieged: The author Qian Zhongshu, whose main works are prose collection, novel Fortress Besieged and short story collection People. Beast. Ghosts, wait. His works were published in the 1940s. His creative background is profound knowledge. Hongfu's academic attainments determine two basic characteristics of his creation: first, he pays attention to the life of intellectuals, especially the life of middle and upper-class intellectuals he is familiar with. His works are often composed of professors, scholars, writers, international students, journalists and celebrities. Secondly, the scholar-like talent in art, the rich knowledge contained in the description of events and the talk of the character Kan Kan, the sophistication in the description of human feelings, and the humorous, strange, slightly playful and sharp language can be called a must. Fortress Besieged is not only a true portrayal of the life of the older generation of gray intellectuals in China, but also a profound truth: the factors that caused Fang Hung-chien's cultural character first came from the dross of traditional culture in China and the degeneration of modern western civilization. Secondly, the darkness of the real society and the sinister relationship between people are also the social genes that lead to Fang Hung-chien's character. The main characters in the works are: Fang Hung-chien, Su, Zhao, Li and so on.
7. Cold Night: Cold Night is a novel published by writer Ba Jin in the 1940s. Different from the writer's other novels, the prototype of Cold Night does not come from the writer's own life experience. Shortly after marriage, when he was still immersed in sweet happiness, he conceived the painful story of the family breakdown through pure imagination. The work describes how the intellectual family in free love broke up under the pressure of real life. This bleak tragedy happened in Chongqing, the "capital" of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's time, one year before the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. Through the description of trivial matters, the author exposes the dark corruption in a morbid society and cries out for the little people struggling at the bottom of society. The main characters in the works are Wang Wenxuan, Zeng Shusheng and Wang Mu.
8. The Children of the Rich Man: The author Lu Ling, formerly known as Xu Sixing, is a representative writer of the July novel. His main works are novellas Hungry Su Guo and Snail on Thorns, and short stories collection Youth Blessing, Courtship and In Chains. The book Children of the Rich Man has 800,000 words and is divided into two parts. Lu Ling was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, and her mother was a businessman named Zhao. Her father died young after her mother's surname. When he was a child, he visited his mother's uncle's house, a big feudal family in Suzhou, and heard and witnessed all kinds of scenes in which his ancestors competed for property, which became an important material for the creation of the children of the rich man in the future. The novel begins with "one". Based on the social life in China ten years after the Sino-Japanese War in Songhu, this paper describes the process of the disintegration of Jie Jiang Sanyi, the first rich family in Suzhou, under the impact of various internal and external forces, and focuses on the exploration and struggle of the rich children, that is, the young intellectuals born in the exploiting class family, to radiate a wider social surface as much as possible, and to record the major historical changes in China during the Anti-Japanese War like a chronicle. The main characters in the works are Jiang Weizu, Jiang Shaozu and Jiang Chunzu.
Third, novels describing citizens' lives.
1. Soul Gun: Author Lao She, formerly known as Shu Qingchun, member of Literature Research Association of New Literature Group. His representative works include the novel The Appearance of Camel, Four Generations of a Family, and the short stories Crescent Moon and Broken Soul Gun published in 1930s. The author was born in a poor family in Beijing and spent a difficult childhood and adolescence in a complex. He is very familiar with the life of the people at the bottom of society, and this experience is conducive to the popularization of his later works and the formation of "Beijing flavor" style. The protagonist in the work is an old boxer Sha Zilong.
2. Taoyuan: The author Fei Ming, formerly known as Feng Wenbing, whose main works are short stories, The Story of Bamboo Forest, Taoyuan, etc. Taoyuan is a novel with the theme of beauty and love, which was published in the 1920s. His works are famous for their lyricism. In his childhood, the small bridge and flowing water beach in Hubei, the maple willow, the four temples of Zen and the five temples left him a lifelong literary memory.
3. Spring Peach: Author Xu Dishan, formerly known as Xu Zankun, member of the Literature Research Association. His main works include a collection of short stories "Weaving a Spider" and a collection of essays "Empty Mountain and Spiritual Rain". Spring Peach is a short story published in 1930s. Xu Dishan has a mysterious background and story of Southeast Asians, the belief of religious researchers and the experience of religious inner feelings.