Shen Zufen

Shen Zufen

Shen Zufen (January 29, 1909 ~ June 27, 1977), female, Zi Rui, alias Ziman, pseudonym Jiang Yan and Su Ke. Zhejiang Haiyan people. Professor, poet, poet, litterateur and literary theorist. He is one of the pioneers of metrical new poetry. He was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province in 1909, and had a good family education. He entered Nanjing Central University in 1931. He died in a car accident in June 1977.

The main representative works are farewell, a sense of filial piety, compromise and zaozaoshi. They have high attainments in classical literature research and old style poetry, and have an important impact on the creation and improvement of Chinese metrical new poetry.

He has taught in the Chinese Department of many universities in South China. It has the reputation of "contemporary li Qingzhao". He and his husband, Cheng Qianfan, a famous literature professor, were called "Cheng Shen" and once praised by his teachers and friends as "Zhao Li in the past and Cheng Shen today". She is known as a talented woman in Jiangnan in the literary world.

Life of the characters

He was born on January 29, 1909 in a scholarly family in Suzhou. Great grandfather Shen Bingyuan was a Bachelor of Xianfeng cabinet and a teacher of emperor Xianfeng. His grandfather Shen Shouqian was good at calligraphy and made friends with painter Wu Changshuo and poet Zhu xiaozang. Shen Zufen middle school studied in Shanghai. In 1930, he was admitted to Shanghai Business School of Central University (now Shanghai University of Finance and Economics). In 1931, he transferred to the Chinese Department of the school of Arts of Nanjing Central University, where famous teachers gathered and the style of study flourished. Shen Zufen's ability to draw people's attention is due to his family's influence in the study of classical literature and the writing of old style poems. At that time, Wang Dong, the president, was surprised that her "huanxisha" words reflected the national crisis after the September 18th Incident, and gave her warm encouragement. At the same time, Shen Zufen also began her new literary creation. Her dream of youth, delicate psychology and delicate poetic feelings are fully unfolded in her attempts of various literary forms. The new poems, essays, novels and one act plays scattered in the publications at that time have initially shown her literary talent and creative style. In 1934, Shen Zufen was admitted to the Sinology research class of Jinling University and devoted himself to the study of classical literature. At the same time, I fell in love with Cheng Qianfan, a student of Chinese department. He also published a series of short historical novels, which won wide attention of the critics at that time, and was praised as "Jiangnan talented woman" in the literary world. In 1935, her novel Zen master debater was published, which is regarded as a masterpiece of "poetic feelings and style". His home on a cliff, published in the spring of 1936, is also widely praised. After graduation, Shen Zufen taught all over the country and created new poems and Ci poems. In the turbulent times, her poems were dignified and deep, expressing her sincere love for the disaster stricken motherland. In September 1937, Nanjing was bombed by Japanese invaders. Shen Zufen and Cheng Qianfan took refuge in Tunxi, Anhui Province, where they got married in a hurry. From 1942 to the surrender of Japan, Shen taught poetry at Jinling University and West China University. In April 1940, Shen Zufen went to Chengdu for surgery because of a tumor in her abdomen. Unexpectedly, a fire broke out in the hospital and all her clothes were burned. Cheng Qianfan was terrified at the news. When he found his wife, they hugged each other and wept. In the summer of 1942, she gradually recovered and went to Chengdu Jinling university with her husband to teach. Shen Zufen found five talented students to set up Zhengsheng poetry club when he was taking a CI course in Chengdu Jinling University, which was very influential at that time. She also selected more than 30 knots for each of the four graduating students to be published as a collection of wind and rain. in the autumn of 1943, he was excluded due to personnel disputes in the Chinese department. In the spring of the next year, the couple were expelled from the school because they were angry and exposed that the school sold the government's cheap rice to its staff at a high price. At the end of 1946, Shen finally ended his 9-year divorce and returned to Wuchang to reunite with his husband. In 1949, Shen Zufen, 38, gave birth to her daughter Cheng Lize by caesarean section. Postpartum, her health is getting worse and worse, at first how also can not find the cause, finally found that the original Caesarean quack surgery gauze left in her abdomen. For this reason, she suffered two years of illness, even the intestines are rotten, had to do many operations to remove the gauze. When she was in Shanghai for surgery, Shanghai was liberated. She was very excited to see Chen Yi's army enter the city with strict discipline and no offense to the people. In the same year, "river related Ci" was published, and was highly praised by famous scholars. In 1952, before she fully recovered, she returned to the forum. First, she taught in Jiangsu Normal University. In 1956, she went to Wuhan University, where her husband was the head of the Chinese department. Her husband and wife taught at Wuhan University. They taught at the foot of Luojia mountain, including the history of Chinese literature, the selected readings of classical works, the selected works of Li Dai Yun, the study of yuan and Ming operas, and the seven unique poems of Tang Dynasty. In 1957, Cheng Qianfan was wrongly classified as a rightist and transferred to the farm for reconstruction. Shen Zufen stayed in Wuhan University to continue teaching, and her class was deeply loved by the students. In 1963, she was selected as the lecturer of the observation course of Wuhan University in preparation for Li Qingzhao's academic seminar held in Hubei Province. At that time, central China Normal University and Wuhan Normal University also held the same topic observation course, which was unanimously recognized as Shen Zufen's most successful and outstanding speech. At the beginning of the "Cultural Revolution", she was sickly, only her daughter Li was around, and her mother and daughter depended on each other. In 1972, her daughter married and moved away. The couple were separated from each other in urban and rural areas. Only poems and lyrics were able to relieve the pain of Acacia. Shen Zufen wrote: "although a confidant is worthy of promise, a couple in need is sad." Cheng Qianfan sings: "Bayu sings Wu Niang's songs all over the world. We should remember when grandma first married." In 1975, Cheng Qianfan was rehabilitated and returned to Wuhan in 1976. The couple had a brief reunion. died in a car accident on June 27, 1977.

Main works

His works include compromise, the night of late spring, foreign girl, mysterious poem, Zen master Biancai, rainy night in Maoling, maweiyi, sorrow of prime minister Su, appreciation of Song Ci, and brief explanation of seven Jue in Tang Dynasty

Character evaluation

Zhu Ziqing once called her "Modern Li Qingzhao"; Zhu Guangqian, an aesthetician, once wrote a poem about her, saying that "after Yi'an, she saw this person, her bones were beautiful, her spirit was clear, and she was not in the same group." Qian Zhonglian, a great master of traditional Chinese culture, said that she had been a writer in the forest for three hundred years, but she was still ecstatic when the autumn came Shen Yinmo, a famous poet and calligrapher, refers to their husband and wife as reprinted Li Qingzhao and Zhao Mingcheng, and praises them as "Zhao Li in the past and Cheng Shen in the present". Wang Dong, the former president of Nanjing University of Arts, praised her: "all the ci poems are of high style, deep rhyme, and Wei Feng's legacy is like living in the world. There is no such work in a thousand years. Ms. Ye Jiaying called her "a comprehensive author". She is also known as a "unparalleled patriotic poet since the Ming and Qing Dynasties" and "the most outstanding female poet in the 20th century Chinese poetry circle".

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