Lai He

Lai He

Lai He, formerly known as Lai He, was named lazy cloud. He is from Changhua County, Taiwan Province, China. He was born in 1894 in Changhua County, Taiwan Province of China. Lai he lived in a period of Japanese occupation of Taiwan and colonial rule. In the face of the Japanese rulers' high-pressure political rule, Lai he used his pen as a weapon to expose and accuse the Japanese aggressors of the profound disasters caused to the people of Taiwan, and warmly praised the rebellious spirit of the people of Taiwan.

Besides practicing medicine, Lai He also engaged in Anti Japanese activities and literary creation. He is the founder of Taiwan's new literature and is known as the father of Taiwan's new literature. He has published a series of prose, new poetry and vernacular novels, such as dounaore, yikuai and troublemaker, all of which are included in the complete works of Mr. Lai He. His works had a profound impact on the local writers of the generation after the May 4th Movement in Taiwan, and Lai he became the pioneer of the new literature movement in Taiwan, known as the "nurse" of Chinese Taiwan literature. He once served as the literary column of Taiwan Min Pao and actively promoted the new literary movement in Taiwan, China. He was not allowed by the Japanese colonial power. He was imprisoned twice, but still did not give in and struggled unremittingly. He died of illness in 1943 at the age of 50.

Character experience

Name: Lai He pronunciation: Laihe.

Lai and Shao hours did not want to go to a Japanese school. He received Mr. Huang's Chinese education in the local "xiaoyitang" and benefited a lot. As a last resort, he went to school to learn Japanese, but he didn't want to cut off the braids symbolizing the Chinese people. In May 1909, at the age of 16, he entered the governor's College of medicine and graduated in 1914. In 1916, Laihe hospital was set up in his hometown Changhua to cure the poor. In 1917, he went to Xiamen, Fujian, and served in Boai hospital for two years. His two years in Xiamen were two years of great achievements in Sinology and ideology. Influenced by the May 4th movement, Lai he deeply felt the importance of national self-determination, especially the importance of enlightening the people. He believed that literature played an important role and should belong to the people. After that, he began to practice medicine and literary creation. In 1919, Lai he returned to Taiwan and began to engage in the Anti Japanese movement and literary creation. In 1924, he was arrested and jailed for the first time for engaging in the Anti Japanese national liberation movement.

In 1941, he was arrested again for the so-called "ideological problem". This time, Lai He's physical and mental health was seriously damaged. Shortly after he was released from prison in early 1943, he died of a heart attack at the age of 50.

social influence

After Lai He's death, the people of Taiwan in China deeply cherish his memory and respect. His tomb is on Bagua mountain in Taiwan, China, and the cemetery is always clean and tidy. It turned out that there was a legend among the local people that Lai He's tomb grass could cure diseases, so people scrambled to pull it out, so that all the grass in the cemetery was pulled out.

Social evaluation

Lai zhenxue's evaluation

Lai He is known as "poetry doctor". He is closely related to the people with his lofty medical ethics and has won wide respect. His medical skills are excellent, but he is approachable, especially for the poor people, sometimes he doesn't even charge for medical treatment. "Some patients ask the doctor to pay for the medicine on credit, but they don't even write down the account for the patient who seems impossible to pay back the money." "He sees more than 100 patients every day. However, after my husband's death, I left a debt of more than 10000 yuan. "

Famous in the literary world

Lai He is not only a doctor with lofty medical ethics, but more importantly, he is well-known in the literary world of Taiwan as a civilian writer and a writer who speaks for the people. Not only that, he was also a man of lofty ideals who stood in the forefront of the times and joined the struggle against Japanese rule with the people of Taiwan, China. The reason why his family was so depressed after he had been practicing medicine all his life was that he generously subsidized the Anti Japanese war with his own money, in addition to the frequent low fees and free treatment. Living among the people, he had a profound understanding of the sufferings of the Taiwan people of China, and also had the deepest feeling of the struggle between the Taiwan people of China and the Japanese aggressors. He has a very firm national consciousness, which can be shown by two things: he always wears Chinese clothes, never Japanese clothes; he only writes in Chinese, preferring to use classical Chinese first, then change to vernacular, and never to write in Japanese. His novels are not only the true reflection of his thoughts, but also the true portrayal of the real life of that era.

Encourage vernacular writing

Lai he was deeply influenced by the new culture movement of the mainland at that time. After the outbreak of the May 4th movement, he immediately returned to Taiwan from Xiamen. Together with Huang Chaoqin and Zhang Wujun, he launched the vernacular literature movement in Taiwan. In 1921, Lai he joined the "Taiwan Cultural Association" and was elected as a director. In 1925, in response to the vernacular writing, Lai he published his first essay untitled, which is known as "the first memorable essay since the new literature movement in Taiwan". In 1926, Lai he published his first vernacular novel "dounao fever" in Taiwan Min Pao, which was the first one since the new literature movement. In 1930, he and Xu Naichang. Huang Chengcong and others founded modern life. In 1932, together with Chen xuruo and Huang Zhou, he presided over the "learning column" of Taiwan Min Bao and Taiwan Xinmin Bao, and served as the editor of Nanyin and Taiwan new literature, training and supporting the rising star. In 1934, the first all Taiwan Literary and art group, the Taiwan Literary and Art Alliance, was founded. Lai he was elected chairman of the committee, but he refused to accept it. The tide of the new literature movement pushed Lai He to be an undisputed leader in Taiwan's literary world. All his life, he played a great role in promoting vernacular writing and promoting the new literature movement. Some people say that Lai He "laid the first hoe and sowed the first seed" for Taiwan's new literature.

Wealth behind

Lai he left us valuable literary wealth, including novels, essays, poems and comments, among which novels are the most successful. His works are full of realistic style, exposing the bloody social reality of the Japanese occupation period in front of people with simple writing style, arousing the will of the oppressed weak to struggle. Because of professional reasons, Lai he had more contact with the people in the underground, so he described the darkness of the society and the suffering of the people deeply. During the three years from 1925 to 1927, he published the poem "the victim of consciousness", the novel "fighting fever" and "a stroke of" calling a son ". It can be said that these three works show the three themes of Lai He's life, that is, the corruption of the old social customs, the humiliated people, and the struggle of the weak. The corruption of the old social customs expressed people's dissatisfaction with the dark reality of the Japanese occupation period and their demands for cultural innovation and social progress. The people who have been humiliated show the miserable situation of the people who are groaning in dire straits. The struggle of the weak extends the unyielding will and rebellious spirit of the oppressed people. These three themes constitute the important ideological content of Lai He's novels. Besides, Lai He is good at satire and line drawing, and is good at using the mass language of Taiwan. His works are full of strong flavor of life.

A mild talk

In Lai He's novels, there are few magnificent struggles of life and death, and there are no thunderous words. The power comes from the vivid realism, which directly exposes the pain of the political cancer in the Japanese occupation era. This kind of seemingly "mild" ideological enlightenment effectively plays with the anger buried in people's hearts, and the profundity of his novels lies here.

In the preface to the complete works of Taiwan literature before the restoration of China, Ye Shitao divided the new literature movement in Taiwan, China, which started in 1920 into "cradle period", "mature period" and "war period", and Lai He's creative activities almost ran through the above three periods. Lai He's works had a profound impact on the generation of local writers in Taiwan after the May 4th movement. "Lai he was a pioneer of Taiwan's new literature. He promoted and guided the development of Taiwan's new literature in the Japanese occupation era." his realistic consciousness influenced many later writers, especially Yang Shouyu and Chen Xugu in their infancy; his mocking techniques influenced Cai Chou Dong, Wu Chou Liu and Ye Shitao; and his indomitable spirit of protest influenced Zhu Dianren, Yang Kuihe LV Heruo It can be said that this evaluation of Lai He is very correct.

Publication catalogue

Lai He, 1979, complete works of Mr. Lai He, edited by Li nanheng. Taipei: Ming tan.

Lai He, 1994, collection of Lai He's novels, edited by Shi Shu. Taipei: Hong Fan bookstore.

Lai He, 1994, collection of Lai He, hardcover edition, edited by Zhang henghao. Taipei: avant garde.

The original work of Lai He, 1996a, e-history of the rich, translated by Cai Chengwei and translated by Li Zijing. Taipei: Tai Li.

Lai Ho, 1996b, one shot. Taipei: Hong Fan bookstore.

Lai He, 2000a, complete works of Lai He 1: novel volume, edited by Lin Ruiming. Taipei: avant garde.

Lai He, 2000b, complete works of Lai He 2: Essays on new poetry, edited by Lin Ruiming. Taipei: avant garde.

Lai He, 2000c, complete works of Lai He 3: miscellaneous volume, edited by Lin Ruiming. Taipei: avant garde.

Lai He, 2000 D, complete works of Lai He 4: volume of Chinese Poetry (1), edited by Lin Ruiming. Taipei: avant garde.

Lai He, 2000E, complete works of Lai He 5: volume of Chinese Poetry (2), edited by Lin Ruiming. Taipei: avant garde.

Lai He, 2000f, complete works of Lai He: attached volume, edited by Lin Ruiming. Taipei: avant garde.

Lai He, 2000g, collection of Lai He's manuscripts: volume of new literature, edited by Lin Ruiming. Changhua City: Laihe culture and education foundation.

Lai He, 2000h, collected manuscripts of Lai He: Volume 2 of Chinese poetry, edited by Lin Ruiming. Changhua City: Laihe culture and education foundation.

Lai He, 2000i, collection of Lai He's manuscripts: notes, edited by Lin Ruiming.

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