Sanmao

Sanmao

Sanmao (March 26, 1943 - January 4, 1991), whose real name is Chen Ping, was born in Dinghai District, Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province. She was born in huangjueya, Nan'an District, Chongqing city. She is a contemporary female writer and traveler in Taiwan, China.

In 1967, he studied in Spain, Germany and the United States, and wrote his prose collection "rainy season never comes again". In 1973, he settled in the Western Sahara desert and later married Jose. In February 1976, he immigrated to the Canary Islands; in May, he published his first collection of essays, the story of the Sahara, about the couple's life experience in the desert. From 1977 to 1979, he published prose collections such as crying camel, Scarecrow's notes and tender night. In 1980, he returned to Taiwan after his unexpected death. In 1981, he published a collection of essays, I know how many flowers fall in my dream, to express my yearning for my husband. In 1982, a collection of essays based on the travel experience of central and South America was published. In 1987, she published a collection of essays, my baby, to show some of her collections. In 1990, she wrote her first Chinese script and her last work, the world of mortals, was published. On January 4, 1991, he died in Taiwan Veterans General Hospital at the age of 47.

Character experience

On March 26, 1943, Sanmao was born at 145 huangjueya Main Street, Nan'an District, Chongqing. She lived here with her parents and sister for three years.

In 1948, he moved to Taiwan with his parents. When she was a child, Sanmao showed a love for books. She read a dream of Red Mansions for the first time in the second semester of the fifth grade. In junior high school, she almost read all the world famous books on the market. After leaving school in the second year of junior high school, Sanmao studied ancient Chinese poetry and English under the guidance of his parents, and followed Gu Fusheng, Han Xiangning, Shao Youxuan and other three painters to learn painting.

In 1964, with the permission of Zhang Qiyun, the founder of China Culture University, Sanmao became an auditor in the Philosophy Department of the university with excellent academic performance.

In 1967, he suspended school again and went to the University of Madrid in Spain to study alone. He met Jose Marion gro, who was still in senior three. After studying at Goth college in Germany, she also worked in the law library of University of Illinois in the United States. Sanmao recorded her growing feelings and traveling experience as a girl in writing, which was included in her prose collection "rainy season never comes again" published in 1976.

In 1970, he returned to Taiwan and was invited by Zhang Qiyun to teach in the Department of German and philosophy of China Cultural University. In 1972, Sanmao accepted a proposal from an older German teacher she met on the tennis court. However, due to the sudden death of her fiance, she went to Spain again to meet Jose, who had been separated for six years.

In 1973, San Mao National Geographic magazine invited San Mao to the Sahara. In 1974, he and Jose held a simple wedding in the desert town of ayoune. On October 6, 1974, one of her works, China Hotel, was published in the supplement of Lianhe daily. This work about her foreign marriage attracted a large number of readers at that time.

In February 1976, influenced by the political situation, Sanmao and Hershey left the Western Sahara and went to the Spanish islands of Di canary; in May, encouraged by the editor in chief of the then United Daily, Sanmao published her first prose collection, the story of the Sahara, which tells the details and personal feelings of her scattered life in the Sahara desert with Hershey in the tone of a tramp. In 1977, he collected and published essays such as Scarecrow and crying camel.

In February 1979, a collection of essays describing the life experiences of San Mao and her husband, Jose, in the Canary Islands was published. On September 30, Jose was killed in an accident while diving, and San Mao returned to Taiwan with the support of his parents.

In 1981, she decided to end her 14 years of wandering in a foreign country and settle down in Taiwan. In May of the same year, she published a collection of essays "how many flowers fall in a dream", which mainly records Sanmao's sad mood and the process of slowly getting out of the haze after his death in hoxi. In November, the United Daily specially sponsored her to travel in central and South America for half a year. After returning home, she wrote a collection of essays "traveling through thousands of rivers and mountains" and carried on the research He made a speech around the island. In 1982, he was an associate professor in the Chinese Department of China University of culture. He taught two courses of "novel creation" and "prose writing" in Taiwan University and China University of culture, and was deeply loved by students.

In 1984, because of his health, he resigned his teaching position and went to the United States to undergo hysterectomy for uterine cancer. Later, he focused on writing and speaking. In March 1987, she published the audio book "San Mao Shuo Shu"; in July, she published the prose collection "my baby", which showed readers some of her treasures for many years.

In April 1989, he went back to his hometown in mainland China for the first time and paid a special visit to Mr. Zhang Leping, the author of the comic book Sanmao vagrancy. He fulfilled his long cherished wish. In 1990, she wrote her first Chinese script and her last work, the world of mortals.

On January 2, 1991, because of endometrial hypertrophy, Sanmao was admitted to Taiwan Veterans General Hospital, and the operation was completed on January 3. In the morning of January 4, the female workers of the hospital found Sanmao's body hanging by nylon stockings, and no suicide note was found at the scene. The forensic medicine concluded that Sanmao's death time was at 2:00 a.m. on January 4, and she was 47 years old.

Personal life

family

Sanmao's original name was Chen Maoping. "Mao" is the ranking of her generation in the genealogy. "Ping" means peace. But because he can't learn how to write the word "Mao", Sanmao omitted the word when he wrote his name, and eventually changed it to Chen Ping. Sanmao's father Chen Siqing is a lawyer, and her mother's name is Miao Jinlan. Sanmao ranks second in her family. She has a sister Chen Tianxin, three years older than her, and two younger brothers Chen Sheng and Chen Jie.

marriage and love

In 1967, Sanmao met Jose Marion gro, who was still a junior in high school in Spain. In addition, during his study abroad, Sanmao also made several boyfriends: a Japanese businessman classmate in Spain, a German classmate who later became a diplomat in Germany, and a Taiwan doctoral student in the United States, but they all died in vain. In 1972, Sanmao accepted a proposal from an older German teacher he met on the tennis court, but he died of a heart attack.

In 1972, Sanmao went to Spain again to meet Jose, who had been separated for six years. In 1974, San Mao married Jose in a local court in the Western Sahara desert. On September 30, 1979, Jose died in a diving accident. With the support of his parents, Sanmao returned to Taiwan and never remarried.

Main works

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Translated works

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Creative features

Tragic beauty

Sanmao's works are imbued with tragic beauty from the inside out. She shows people the pain in her heart, the hardship of life, the helpless struggle of ordinary people in the world, and the feeling of life with her gentle and pure strokes. Those simple words are full of tears. Sanmao has experienced a gloomy girlhood and a troubled youth and middle age, which makes sadness the keynote of her works. During the seven years of her girlhood, she curled up in her own world and felt her inner collision. In such a closed and lonely environment, Sanmao inevitably pays close attention to himself and is always in a very sensitive state. In particular, he can catch the feeling of pain very acutely and enlarge it consciously, making himself trapped in it and difficult to extricate himself. This sensitivity to pain has been maintained in Sanmao's character and has a great influence on her writing in the future. She pays attention to herself and the world around her with kind, sad and compassionate eyes. Therefore, the lines in her works are always filled with tragic beauty. For example, "how many flowers fall in a dream" is the saddest and most beautiful writing Sanmao wrote to Hersey: "it's you and me who are buried, and it's us who are gone. Although "no tears" and "no wailing", we can clearly feel the pain and despair of the author. As Sanmao himself said: "my handwriting, my mouth, with my mouth, express my heart." The shadow and pain in Sanmao's heart always flow from the tip of the pen. In Sanmao's works, readers can also find a lot of tragic characters. For example, the 12-year-old boy named Danielle in "the giant" loves and takes care of her disabled adoptive father and critically ill adoptive mother wholeheartedly. When he is invited to see a movie, he is "outside". My heart is at home, remembering my father and mother every second. " For example, in dumb slave, Sanmao successfully depicts a black slave who lives in deep suffering without personal freedom, but is full of love and wisdom. When the sentence "mute slave's figure gradually disappeared in the sunset" at the end of the article came into view, every reader felt sad and painful for mute slave. There are many such characters in Sanmao's works, such as Shalun who is infatuated with love but deceived in the search for love, and the nameless beggar in the tender night. Through these tragic images, Sanmao shows readers the beauty of human nature and human feelings.

Language features

Simple and natural is the most important aesthetic feature of Sanmao's prose language. Her language "tells the truth, writes the true feelings, draws the real scene". The formation of simple and natural characteristics of Sanmao's prose is related to his personality: Sanmao's personality is free and easy, frank and willful, and he is a rich man

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