Lu Yan

Lu Yan

Lu Yan (1901-1944), a native of Zhenhai, Zhejiang Province (now Daqi, Beilun District, Zhejiang Province), was formerly known as the Minister of Wang Xie (Xi è), also known as Wang Heng, Wang Luyan and huiwo. He is a famous local novelist and translator.

Character experience

Lu Yan, formerly known as Wang Heng, was born in Zhenhai, Zhejiang Province. He had a high school education in his youth. In 1920, he joined the work study mutual aid group founded by Li Dazhao and Cai Yuanpei and went to Peking University from Shanghai to listen in.

In the summer of 1923, he taught in Changsha civilian University, Zhounan women's college and the first normal university. In the same year, he published his first work autumn night in the November issue of Oriental Magazine. Since then, many novels have been published, including grapefruit, an early masterpiece describing the murder of warlords. In 1926, the first collection of novels, grapefruit, was published. In 1927, he served as a supplement to the Republic of China Daily in Wuhan, Hubei Province. In the spring of 1928, he worked as an Esperanto translator in the International Propaganda Department of Nanjing National Government. In 1930, he served as a supplement to Minzhong daily in Xiamen, Fujian Province. Since then, he has been teaching in middle schools in Fujian, Shanghai, Shaanxi and other places, and ushered in the harvest period of literary creation in his extremely unstable life. He has gradually become an important writer of the local realism school by using different techniques such as romance and symbolism. Gold, published in the July 1927 issue of the novel monthly, describes the situation of a small bourgeois who constantly suffered from disasters, which deeply reflects the human state of the old society. Since then, he has paid more attention to reality. On the eve of the Anti Japanese War, an important novel wildfire was published, which described the miserable life of the peasants in the south of the Yangtze River and the real picture of the spontaneous resistance.

During the Anti Japanese War, he created and published short stories such as children under gunfire and wounded hospital, and serialized the novel "green grass" in the supplement of Guangxi daily. In 1941, he participated in the organizational work of the all China literary and art anti enemy Association. The main contribution of this period was to edit the large literary journal "literary journal", which was one of the most influential literary journals in the rear area in the late period of the Anti Japanese war. The last collection of novels, our trumpet, was published in 1942. He died in Guilin in 1944 in poverty and disease.

Main works

Bibliography of works

Grapefruit, gold, sorrow of childhood, little heart, under the roof, donkey and mule, baby diary, bird and mouse collection, country, Lu Yan's short stories collection, riverside, traveler's heart, wildfire (also known as angry country), wounded hospital, trace notes, on the bridge, Hui This paper introduces the works of Lu Yan's prose anthology, such as Duke Ze, our trumpet, Lu Yan's prose anthology, Lu Yan's prose anthology, etc.

Translation bibliography

Jewish novels, fairy tales for Helan, xiankeweizhi novels, flowers, world short stories, people without shadow, sea of bitterness, at the end of the world, confession, etc.

Bibliography of research materials

On Wang Luyan (fan Boqun, Zeng Huapeng), 1980, Shanghai Literature and art

Research materials of Wang Luyan (edited by Zeng Huapeng and Jiang mingdai), 1984, Jiangxi people's Congress

Appreciation of Lu Yan's works (Zheng zekui), 1986, Guangxi People's Congress

Creative content

Lu Yan established his position in the history of modern Chinese literature as a representative writer of local literature. His works, based on the semi colonial small towns in the south of the Yangtze River in China, described the human customs and customs in the rural areas of eastern Zhejiang, and showed the simple and meticulous style of realism.

It has been pointed out that the characters in Wang Luyan's works "are mostly farmers, businessmen and other small property owners who are oppressed by reactionary local governments, foreign industrial civilization and cruel human customs, and they are struggling with the heavy load of life on the gray brown land", among which the prominent one is the depiction of the rural petty bourgeoisie. The representative work gold marks the maturity of Lu Yan's local realistic novels. Uncle Rushi of Chen Siqiao is a well-to-do family. He lives a stable and respected life. Because his son did not remit money at the end of the year, he was stolen, suspected, despised and teased by his neighbors. The trouble of "gold" causes the coldness of the world. The novel reveals the snobbish and cruel relationship between people driven by money. Just as Mao Dun thinks in Wang Luyan Lun, this work successfully shows "the psychology of the rural petty bourgeoisie and the primitive coldness of the countryside." In addition, through the description of the local wealth owners' worries about their own property, Xu Shi Bu Bu Bu Bu Ba analyzes the dark psychology of selfishness; uncle Yi Xin in the bridge is a businessman who runs small businesses, but he has lost money and lost property under the competition and squeeze of foreign machines and big businesses. At the same time, Lu Yan's novels also express his concern for the people at the bottom, such as Aunt Li, who has changed from an honest peasant woman to a cunning aunt in Shanghai, mother bender, who has a fierce conflict with her daughter-in-law because of her economic worries, Chen laonai, who is burdened with heavy responsibilities but can't return, and a Mao, a young laborer, who is bullied by evil forces 》）And Watson, etc.

The endless nostalgia, nostalgia, nostalgia and memories of his childhood hometown are constantly presented in Lu Yan's works. The self-made huqin reflects the deep friendship with childhood friends ("sorrow of childhood"); the days of fishing, enjoying the wild fun of the countryside and the joy of childhood ("fishing"); the sour and sweet red bayberry, amusing the readers ("red bayberry"); the tension and fun of setting off fireworks in the New Year season ("open the door gun"), and the eagerness of tomb sweeping and mountain cruising by boat during the Qingming Festival He Chang Kuai (Qingming) is even more vivid. Lu Yan's works have a touching charm because of his true reflection on his hometown life and local scenery. "This kind of bewitching of homesickness in the mind is often an indispensable quality of local literature. It can even be said that it is the part of local literature that is deeply emotional and makes people enjoy the pleasure of beauty most fully."

Lu Yan's works have a strong local color because of the description of people's habits and beliefs in the coastal water villages in eastern Zhejiang. "Ju Ying's marriage" reflects the custom of "ghost marriage" in the rural areas of eastern Zhejiang Province. "Fork road" tells about the fighting caused by two villages carrying the emperor Guandi to drive away the God of pestilence. "Little heart" records the barbaric village custom of abducting and selling children, but the world is used to it. "Rat tooth" describes the way of "rat marrying a girl" to drive the mouse to the neighbor's dispute. This kind of genre painting is also included in his works meet the eye everywhere.

Creative style

Delicate, simple and natural are the main artistic style of Lu Yan's works. Mao Dun thought: "in the description skill aspect, the nature and the simplicity are the author's outstanding features." Lu Yan always describes the scenes of life and the psychological activities of the characters with delicate writing style. The theme naturally flows in the simple story narration, and the language is fresh and simple, and the words are as usual.

Character evaluation

Wang Luyan's achievements in the creation of local novels are outstanding. His "familiarity with the coastal local customs in eastern Zhejiang, his exploration of the contents with literary and practical significance, and his solid and simple realistic writing techniques" make him a representative of local novel writers and enjoy a high reputation in the literary world. Lu Xun evaluated him as "the representative of a generation of local literature writers". Mao Dun commented that he was a "life school" writer, and "natural and simple in description are the features of the author".

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