The first essay of Zhu Ziqing's essays is a group of essays, the main content of which is to write about social life and attack the dark reality.
The second is narrative and lyric prose, which mainly describe personal and family life. It shows the human relationship between father and son, husband and wife, and friends, with strong human feelings.
Thirdly, a group of lyric sketches with natural scenery as the theme is his masterpiece, which has accompanied the joys and sorrows of generations. The latter two essays are the best written by Zhu Ziqing, among which "The Back" and "Moonlight on the Lotus Pond" are well-known masterpieces. 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's contribution in the history of prose is various. He is an outstanding 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". Based on classical literature, he took the May 4th cultural exchange between China and the West as the background.
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.
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.
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Zhu Ziqing's last years:
Six months before his death, Zhu Ziqing, who had been tired all the year round, was physically exhausted and often had a little difficulty walking. He felt his sudden aging, but he was not negative because of it. He changed "to see the sun, for all his glory, buried in the coming night" in the Tang Dynasty to "You must see the sun, even though it is brilliant, why should you be disappointed at dusk".
As a spur to oneself, press under the glass plate of the desk. Sitting at my desk every morning, I study hard and work hard. In the last two months of his life, Zhu Ziqing's body has been extremely weak, with a weight as low as 77.6 kg, and his condition has become increasingly critical, with "stomachache all night" and "vomiting".
However, he edited Wen Yiduo's complete works, compiled teaching materials, prepared lessons and gave lectures. In these two months' diaries, he wrote as many as 17 diaries about reading, buying and choosing books directly. Among them, he carefully read Qu Qiubai's Preface to Lu Xun's Miscellaneous Feelings and Records of Popular Philosophy.
Even 26 days before his death, he made a reading plan in his diary, asking himself to read an English book and a Chinese book in turn every day except Saturday afternoon and Sunday, and read poetry in his spare time. Said to do it, after two days, that is, the first Monday of the plan, he began to read Bulfinch's "Myth" and "Assumption of Polokov".
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