Wang Zengqi

Wang Zengqi

Wang Zengqi (March 5, 1920 - May 16, 1997), born in Gaoyou, Jiangsu Province, is a representative of contemporary Chinese writers, essayists, dramatists and Beijing writers. Known as "Lyric humanist, China's last pure literati, China's last scholar bureaucrat." Wang Zengqi has made great achievements in short story writing, and also has a deep study of drama and folk literature and art. His works include Shoujie, dinner flower collection, passing water, Wancui Wentan, etc.

In the autumn of 1935, Wang Zengqi graduated from junior high school and was admitted to Nanying Middle School of Jiangyin county. In the summer of 1939, he went from Shanghai to Kunming via Hong Kong and Vietnam and was admitted to the Department of Chinese literature of Southwest Associated University as the first volunteer. In 1950, he was the host of Beijing literature and art. In the winter of 1961, he wrote "a night in the sheep house" with a brush. In 1963, night in the sheep house was officially published. In January 1981, Yibing was published in Yuhua. In December 1996, he was elected as a consultant at the Fifth National Congress of the Chinese Writers Association.

At 10:30 a.m. on May 16, 1997, Wang Zengqi died of invalid medical treatment at the age of 77.

About Wang Zengqi tourist attractions: Wang Zengqi memorial hall, Wang Zengqi literature hall, Wang Zengqi former residence.

Life of the characters

Study experience

In 1925, Wang Zengqi studied in the kindergarten of the fifth primary school in Gaoyou county. In the autumn of 1926, Wang Zengqi entered the fifth primary school of the county.

In the autumn of 1932, Wang Zengqi graduated from primary school and was admitted to Gaoyou junior high school.

In the autumn of 1935, Wang Zengqi graduated from junior high school and entered Nanjing middle school in Jiangyin county (now Jiangyin City, Jiangsu Province).

In 1937, the Japanese occupied the south of the Yangtze River. Wang Zengqi, a sophomore in senior high school, had to say goodbye to Nanjing middle school and study in Huai'an middle school, private Yangzhou middle school and Yancheng temporary middle school. The teaching order of these schools was disrupted by the war. Wang Zengqi barely finished middle school. After the war, Wang Zengqi took refuge with his grandfather and father in a small nunnery in a village a little far away from Gaoyou City for half a year. He described this nunnery in his novel Shoujie.

In the summer of 1939, Wang Zengqi went from Shanghai to Kunming via Hong Kong and Vietnam, and was admitted to the Department of Chinese literature of Southwest Associated University as his first volunteer. During the University, Wang Zengqi and his classmates founded Wenju magazine, and constantly published poems and novels in the magazine.

On the eve of Liberation

In 1944, for the sake of living, Wang Zengqi worked as a teacher in a "China construction middle school" run by students of the United University in Guanyin Temple in the northern suburb of Kunming. During two years of teaching, Wang Zengqi wrote the novel the bell of a primary school and rewritten the novel revenge. Later, Shen Congwen recommended it to Zheng Zhenduo and published it in Renaissance magazine sponsored by Shanghai. In addition, he also wrote novels such as career, downfall and Lao Lu. During this period, Wang Zengqi met Shi Songqing, who was also teaching in China Jianshe middle school, and established a love relationship.

In the autumn of 1946, Wang Zengqi went from Kunming to Shanghai. After being introduced by Mr. Li Jianwu, he worked as a teacher in private Zhiyuan middle school for two years until he left in the early spring of 1948. During this period, he wrote such novels as chicken and duck master, daiche craftsman and so on.

In the early spring of 1948, Wang Zengqi left Shanghai for Beijing, where he joined Shi Songqing, a teaching assistant in the Foreign Language Department of Peking University, and temporarily stayed in Peking University. After six months of unemployment, he found a job in Beijing History Museum.

On January 31, 1949, the people's Liberation Army entered Beiping, which declared peaceful liberation. In March, Wang Zengqi signed up to participate in the "four fields" Southward working group. He was left in Wuhan to take over the cultural and educational units. Later, he was assigned to the second women's middle school as the deputy director of education and worked for one year.

In April 1949, Wang Zengqi's first novel collection, the collection of encounters, was published in Shanghai cultural life publishing house as one of the literary series edited by Ba Jin. The book includes eight early works of Wang Zengqi: revenge, Lao Lu, artist, rickshaw puller, dejected, prisoner, chicken and duck master and encounter. In May, she married Shi Songqing.

The period of Liberation

In 1950, the Beijing Federation of literary and art circles was established. Wang Zengqi returned to Beijing from Wuhan and was the host of Beijing literature and art.

In 1954, Wang Zengqi created the Peking Opera script "Fan Jin Zhong Ju", which won the first prize of Beijing opera performance. In autumn, he was transferred from the Beijing Municipal Federation of literary and art circles to the China folk literature and Art Research Association as folk literature.

In 1957, after the "anti rightist struggle" began, he was criticized for this essay, but he was not classified as a rightist.

In the summer of 1958, he was classified as a rightist and transferred to Zhangjiakou shalingzi Institute of Agricultural Sciences.

In 1960, Wang Zengqi was removed from his rightist hat, ended his labor and temporarily stayed in the Institute of Agricultural Sciences to assist him.

In the spring of 1961, the Institute of Agricultural Sciences asked Wang Zengqi to draw a set of potato atlas at the potato research station in Guyuan. Unfortunately, the draft was destroyed during the cultural revolution.

In the winter of 1961, he wrote "a night in the sheep house" with a brush. At the end of the year, Wang Zengqi appointed Beijing Opera Troupe as a screenwriter.

In 1963, night in the sheep house was officially published. This is Wang Zengqi's second collection of works.

In 1964, Wang Zengqi and others adapted the Peking Opera of the same name according to the Shanghai Opera "Lu Dang Huo Zhong", which was performed by Beijing Peking Opera Troupe. Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Deng Xiaoping, Dong Biwu and other party and state leaders watched and received all the performers, congratulating them on the success of the performance.

Shortly after the beginning of the "Cultural Revolution" in 1966, Wang Zengqi was put into a "cowshed" because of the "rightist" problem, but he was quickly "liberated" in 1968.

On May 21, 1970, Wang Zengqi was invited to mount the Tiananmen tower for his contribution to the modification and processing of the Peking Opera Shajiabang.

Old age

In 1977, the folk literature paper the rhyme of flowers was published, which was the first work published by Wang Zengqi after the "Cultural Revolution".

In December 1978, the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was successfully held. Wang Zengqi was deeply inspired and his creative enthusiasm gradually rose.

In 1979, the novel cavalry biography was published in the 11th issue of people's literature, which is Wang Zengqi's first novel after the "Cultural Revolution".

In 1980, the novel Shou Jie was published in the October issue of Beijing literature.

In January 1981, Yibing was published in Yuhua. In April, the chronicle of Da Nao was published in Beijing literature. In this year, Wang Zengqi's excellent works were published continuously, and his novel creation became more and more active. In October, at the invitation of the people's Government of Gaoyou County, Wang Zengqi returned to his hometown after many years of absence.

In 1982, Wang Zengqi made many new works. In 1983, Wang Zengqi's writing became more active, publishing nearly 20 novels, essays and reviews all over the country.

In 1985, he was elected director of the Fourth National Congress of the Chinese Writers Association, which ended at the beginning of the year.

On February 26, 1987, Wang Zengqi joined the party in Beijing. On April 16, Wang Zengqi visited Yunnan with a delegation of Chinese writers. In October, at the invitation of angel and Nie Hualing, Wang Zengqi went to the United States to participate in international writing activities, which lasted more than three months.

In 1988, there was no new work in the novel, and some essays and essays were published occasionally.

In January 1989, "Beijing literature" and "United literature" in Taipei took synchronous action, and Wang Zengqi's album was released at the same time.

On February 24, 1990, Wang Zengqi wrote his prose seventy Lyric.

In May 1991, the collection of puqiao was reprinted by the writers' publishing house.

In April 1992, the collection of essays "travel food collection" was published by Guangdong Tourism Publishing House.

In June 1993, the novel collection deep in zizanpu, which is based on hometown Gaoyou, was published in Zhejiang literature and Art Publishing House.

In the spring of 1995, at the invitation of Taiwan's United times, Wang Zengqi went to Taiwan to participate in the "forum on Cross Strait and trilateral literary issues.".

In December 1996, he was elected as a consultant at the Fifth National Congress of the Chinese Writers Association.

At 10:30 a.m. on May 16, 1997, he died of invalid rescue and died at the age of 77.

Main works

Characteristics of literature

prose composition

Wang Zengqi's prose does not have the painstaking management of the structure, nor does it pursue the abstruse and profound of the theme. It is plain and simple, and it is as usual.

With his personal trivial subjects, he beautifies "daily life" and corrects the collective "grand narrative"; with his plain, euphemistic and flexible language, he reverses the rigidity of "Mao's discourse" which covers everything; with his plain, implicit and restrained narration, he exposes the sentimental and ostentatious style of writing, and makes people relive the decaying style of classicism The charm of prose reflects the emptiness, exaggeration, falsehood and morbid state of contemporary Chinese prose, which makes truth and beauty, daily life, tranquility and grace return to prose, and makes prose go out of "one side of a thousand people, one cavity of a thousand parts".

Wang Zengqi's prose does not pay attention to the indoctrination of ideas, but it is thought-provoking. For example, "is bitter gourd a melon" in eating and literature talks about the history of bitter gourd, people's likes and dislikes of bitter gourd, Beijingers from not accepting bitter gourd to accepting it, and finally comes to the issue of literary creation: "don't deny or reject works that you are not used to." a work can be regarded as realistic or modernist, as long as it is really a work Products. A work is a work. Just like balsam pear, it's OK to say it's a melon, it's OK to say it's a gourd, as long as it's edible. "

Wang Zengqi's writing style is simple and elegant, friendly and meaningful, peaceful, elegant and clumsy. His prose, both Tao Yuanming's article of the simple and tranquil, but also

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