1925, professor Tsinghua University, head of Chinese department. During this period, he 193 1 went to study in Britain and roamed several European countries. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he went to National Southwest Associated University as the head of Chinese Department, engaged in academic research and thesis writing. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he joined the patriotic and democratic movement. When he was seriously ill, he still signed the "Declaration on Protesting American Aid Policy to Japan and Refusing to Accept American Aid for Flour". He is poor and ill, and is known as a patriotic cultural person with backbone.
Zhu Ziqing embarked on the road of literature and was first famous for his poems. Published a long poem "Destruction" and some short poems, which were included in Snow Dynasty and Traces. 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", "London Miscellanies" and the collection of essays "Standards and Standards" 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, he has made great achievements in poetry theory, classical literature, new literature history 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 are included in the Complete Works of Zhu Ziqing.
Prose features:
One kind is a prose group with writing about social life and attacking the dark reality as its main content. The second is narrative and lyric sketches, which mainly describe personal and family life and show the human relationship between father and son, husband and wife and friends, with strong human feelings. Third, it is a group of essays with natural scenery as the mainstay, which are representative works and accompany the joys and sorrows of generation after generation. His prose is simple and meticulous, clear and gloomy, famous for its refined language and beautiful writing style, and full of true feelings.
Zhu Ziqing is another excellent essay writer after Bing Xin in the early period of new literature. With the achievement of "beautiful writing", he broke the superstition of the retro school that vernacular Chinese can't be "beautiful writing". On the basis of classical literature and under the background of cultural exchange between China and the West in the May 4th Movement, he created a prose system and style with China national characteristics. In particular, his prose works with high artistic achievements provide a model of vernacular beauty and valuable artistic experience for cultivating literary youth and prospering prose creation.
The characteristics of poetry:
Zhu Ziqing's poems show a simple and fresh style both ideologically and artistically, including Bright, New Year, Coal, Sending Han Bo to Russia for Painting, Sheep, Modern in a Cabin and so on. , or eager to pursue the light, looking forward to the future, or strongly attacking the dark world, exposing the bloody life, full of anti-imperialist and anti-feudal revolutionary spirit, is a rare work in early new poetry.
Zhu Ziqing's prose pursues the word "truth", writes what he sees, hears, thinks and feels with sincere feelings, and achieves realistic artistic effect. Truth is the artistic core of Zhu Ziqing's prose. Telling the truth, describing feelings and scenery are the highest achievements of his prose art.
Posterity evaluation:
Zhu Ziqing's incorruptibility and patriotism won high praise from Comrade Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong wrote in Farewell to Si Tuleideng: "Wen Yiduo was so angry that he would rather not give in to the Kuomintang pistol. Zhu Ziqing was seriously ill and would rather starve to death than accept American relief food. " "We should write a hymn to Wen Yiduo and Zhu Ziqing. They showed the heroism of our nation. "
References:
Zhu Ziqing _ Baidu Encyclopedia