Ling Shuhua

Ling Shuhua

Ling Shuhua (March 25, 1900 to May 22, 1990) was born in an official and painting family in the ancient cultural city of Beijing. He was born to his father's fourth wife and four sisters, ranking third and tenth in his family. The splendid culture and environment of the ancient city inspired her talents and influenced her hobbies and life. Later, he made outstanding achievements in literary creation and painting.

In addition to the collection of short stories "the temple of flowers", "women", "little brothers" and the collection of prose "a dream of love in Shanlu" (Singapore Xingzhou World Book Company Limited, 1960), her works also include the self selected collection of short stories "selected works of Ling Shuhua" and "selected works of Ling Shuhua" published by Hong Kong literature research society.

Personage introduction

Growth environment

Ling Shuhua's father, Ling fupeng, whose name is Runtai, was born in Hanyuan. He was elected in the 19th year of Guangxu. He joined Kang Youwei in the list of Jinshi. He successively served as Zhang Jing, head of the Ministry of household and military aircraft in the Qing Dynasty, the magistrate of Tianjin and the supervisor of Tianjin Arts and crafts Bureau and Xiyi Institute, the magistrate of Baoding, the salt envoy of Tianjin daochanglu, the Yin agent of shuntianfu, and the governor of Zhili.

After 1911, he was a member of the treaty conference of the Northern Warlords and a member of the Senate. He is proficient in poetry and painting. He once worked closely with famous painters such as Qi Baishi, Yao Mangfu, Wang Yun, Xiao Liquan, Zhou Qixiang, Jincheng, Wang Mengbo, Chen banding and Chen Yinke, and organized the "Beijing Painting Festival". There were many literati and poets in his family.

This kind of family, living environment, so that she was nurtured by literature and art from childhood, and first fell in love with painting. When she was six years old, she painted a lot of landscapes, flowers and figures on the white wall with charcoal in the garden. A friend of her father's saw the paintings and said to her, "your paintings have a lot of style. You have talent. You'll be a great painter. I want to tell your father to find you a teacher "In this way, she was taught by Miao Suyun, a famous female artist and painter favored by Empress Dowager Cixi. She was also educated by Gu Hongming, who was known as the eccentric hero of the cultural and artistic circles at that time, so that she laid the foundation of classical poetry and English. When she was seven or eight years old, she also learned from Wang Zhulin, a famous landscape orchid and bamboo painter, and then from Hao Shuyu, a female painter, which laid a solid foundation for her painting techniques.

Reading experience

When she was studying in Tianjin Zhili No.1 women's normal school, her writing talent was like the first lotus. Her literary talent was outstanding and eye-catching. Her compositions were often published in the school journal.

In 1919, when the May 4th Movement broke out, Tianjin set up the "Tianjin patriotic comrades Association" and published the weekly "awakening the world" edited by Xu Guangping and Jiang Yun. She was also affected.

In 1922, when she was 22 years old, she was admitted to the preparatory course of Yanjing University. She once worked with Xie Bingxin, who was about to graduate, for one year. The next year, she was promoted to the Department of foreign languages, majoring in English, French and Japanese, and attended Zhou Zuoren's "New Literature" class. The beautiful campus of Yanda is full of poetic and picturesque feelings all year round. The impulse of creation always strikes her inspiration. Therefore, she often draws with her brush, so that the youth and vitality of nature will stay under the brilliant pen forever.

During his college years, Ling Shuhua was so familiar with his painting skills that he was able to make a comeback with his own skills. Later, most of her paintings have been seen by Zhu Guangqian, who commented: "most of the materials are from the nature of the poet's mind for thousands of years What I know here is a literati painter who inherits the great masters of yuan and Ming Dynasties. In her yearning for classical scale, she reveals her unique elegant style and meticulous sensitivity "Look at her paintings," we appreciate the vitality in the quiet, and find our original pure self in the nature. "

Publish your first work

Although she loves painting, "Literature" is like a giant hand with strong magnetism, holding her firmly. "Writing" is her goal. When Hu Shi, Guo Moruo, Bing Xin and others swept the literary world with their own unique style of new poetry, her creative desire was just like a pot of fire, burning more and more prosperous. So, in 1924, in college, while painting, she began to write in vernacular. On January 13, in the supplement of morning post, he published his first short story "daughter's life experience is too miserable" under the pseudonym of Ruitang, followed by "Christmas of capitalists" and "towards Hamen street in the fog".

Love and marriage

Get to know Chen Yuan

May 1924

During Tagore's visit to China, Chen Yuan (Xi Ying), a professor and head of the English Department of Peking University, served as the host, and Ling Shuhua was also among the welcome representatives. On the afternoon of May 6, the Beijing Federation of English teachers held a tea party in the women's College of Yanjing University to welcome Tagore. At this time, Ling and Chen met for the first time. After that, the book sent letters to discuss literature and art.

On January 10, 1925, Ling Shuhua's famous work after drinking, which established her position in the literary world, was published in modern review (Volume I, issue 5); on March 21, the short story embroidered pillow was published in the same journal (Volume I, issue 15), which attracted wide attention. So far, she is more interested in writing. In addition to publishing novels in modern review, she has also published works in new moon, morning post, Yanda weekly, literature magazine, Dagong literature and art, Wuhan literature and art, literature quarterly, Kaiming, Guowen weekly and Chinese literature and art.

Finally, she took the first step of her literary career in modern review edited by Chen Yuan (Xi Ying). She is the only female writer in modern review and the main novelist of the New Moon School in the future. She "with a hand that is good at regulating the color of the red and the blue and the weight of the words she needs, refines the ordinary and even a little vulgar materials into flawless jade. "

In June 1926, she graduated from the Department of foreign languages of Yanjing University and won the golden key Award for her outstanding achievements. She worked in the calligraphy and Painting Department of Beijing Palace Museum. In July, she married Chen Yuan. In the early autumn of the next year, the couple went on a short trip to Japan. Later, Ling Shuhua stayed in Kyoto for a year to study the works of Kikuchi Kuan, Sato Chunfu, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Tanizaki runichiro, Natsume Soseki and Japanese art.

Ling and Chen have the same interest in literature and art. Writing and painting, commenting on literature and art are their common spiritual sustenance in their life. According to a reporter in the article "Ling Shuhua talks about Chen Yuan", they did not write in the same study after their marriage. Ling Shuhua always keeps Chen Yuan's works "secret" for fear that this meta critic will use cold water to extinguish her literary thinking and creative passion before her works are published. Chen Yuan won't show her after she has finished her articles, and only when they are published can they show each other.

Spring of 1928

Crescent Bookstore published her first collection of short stories, the temple of flowers, edited by Chen Yuan. In editor Xiaoyan, Chen Yuan said: "the author also wrote several novels before drunk. I don't think their writing techniques have been refined yet. The author also means that, so they haven't been collected. "

1929

Chen Yuan left Beijing to work as a professor, Dean of the school of Arts and director of the Department of foreign literature at Wuhan University. Ling Shuhua also went to Wuhan University with her husband. At first, she lived in Tanhualin in the northwest of Wuchang, and then lived on the beautiful Luojia mountain in Wuchang. She became close friends with Yuan Changying and Su Xuelin, two other female writers who taught at Wuchang University. At that time, she was known as "three literary friends of Luojia mountain", also known as "Luojia mountain" "Three heroes of the mountain". In Wuhan, besides teaching, Ling Shuhua also worked hard to create and edited Wuhan literature and art in order to "collect the literary talents of central China".

1930

Her collection of short stories, women, is published by the commercial press. In 1935, Liangyou book publishing company published her children's short story collection "little brothers" (the 20th kind of "Liangyou literature series"), in which the author said, "this little book was designed to collect my children's works at first. It has been nearly ten years since 1926. After typesetting, the author said that the length of the book was smaller and hoped that I would add a few more articles. This is the reason for the addition of the latter articles. That's another kind of thing. Suddenly, it's like a child wearing a pair of adult slippers, which doesn't match "

Living abroad

In the summer of the second year after the outbreak of the Anti Japanese War, Wuhan was threatened by the Japanese invaders. She moved to Leshan, Sichuan, with the school, and taught in Yanjing University two years later. The war brought her pain and anxiety. In the spring of 1938, she wrote a letter about her depression to Virginia Woolf, a famous British female writer. The latter wrote a letter saying "only works you can face the war" and encouraged Ling Shuhua to write about her familiar life and personal things. In writing, she was influenced by Chekhov of Russia and miss Katherine Mansfield of England. During this period, she did not write much, but studied the Oriental Art and drama seriously. In 1946, appointed by the Kuomintang government, Chen Yuan went to Paris as a permanent representative of UNESCO. The next year, Ling Shuhua and his daughter Chen Xiaoying went to London to reunite with Chen Yuan and settled in Europe. She studied French and impressionist painting in Paris for many years. The expensive life in Paris, Chen Yuan's salary is not as good as that of the first Secretary of the embassy, the huge pressure of life, pushed them out of Paris, had to live in London, only in Kaifeng

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