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Gu Sui (1897-1960) was born in Qinghe County, Hebei Province. His real name was Gu baosui, and his pen name was Kushui. He is a writer of Chinese verse and prose, a theoretical critic, an aesthetic connoisseur, a lecturer artist, a Zen master, a calligrapher, and an expert in cultural and academic research. Gu Sui's student and Redology magnate Zhou Ruchang once commented on him like this: "an upright poet, at the same time, a profound scholar, an excellent master philosopher."

brief account of the author's life

Gu Sui was born on February 13, 1897. When Gu Sui was four or five years old, he entered a family school, studied four books and five classics, Tang and Song poems and fables of pre Qin scholars, and also read some novels. He entered guangpingfu middle school in 1907 and passed the entrance examination of Peking University in 1915. When reviewing the papers, the president of Peking University found that Gu Sui's level of Chinese literature was extraordinary and suggested that he study western literature instead. So Gu suixian went to Beiyang university to specialize in English. Two years later, he transferred to the English Department of Peking University. In the summer of 1920, he graduated from Qingzhou middle school in Shandong Province. In 1926, he taught in Tianjin Women's normal university. He pointed out the way to the students with Lu Xun's thoughts. Because of his guidance, many students set foot on the road of revolution. In 1929, Gu Sui taught in Yanjing, Beiping, China and France, Beijing, China, Furen, Beijing Normal University, etc.

Gu Sui is loyal to the motherland and the people all his life. After the peaceful liberation of Beijing in 1949, he began to teach in universities and worked in Tianjin in 1953. On September 6, 1960, Gu Sui died at the residence of Hebei University, Machang Road, Tianjin. In 1990, Mr. Gu Sui's disciples from Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and other places gathered in Beijing to hold the "30th anniversary meeting of Mr. Gu Sui's death", after which a collection of commemorative essays was printed. In 1997, the Chinese Department of Beijing Normal University, the Chinese Department of Hebei University, the Alumni Association of Beijing Normal University, and the Alumni Association of Furen University jointly held a "Centenary Celebration of Mr. Gu Sui's birthday" and a "commemorative Exhibition" in Beijing.

Gu Sui has taught Chinese ancient literature in Hebei women's Normal University, Yanjing University, Furen University, China France University, China University, Beijing Normal University, Hebei University, women's College of Arts and Sciences, etc. for more than 40 years, many of his disciples have been famous experts and scholars at home and abroad, such as Ye Jiaying, Zhou Ruchang, Shi Shuqing, Deng Yunxiang, Guo Yuheng, Yan Yiyan and Huang Zong Jiang, Wu Xiaoru, Yang Minru and Wang Shuangqi are the outstanding representatives. Professor Ye Jiaying established the Ye's tuoan scholarship in Nankai University to reward the students of later generations.

Main works

academic research

Mr. Gu Sui is a scholar and expert with unique insight. Since the 1930s, many academic works have been published, such as Jiaxuan CI Shuo, Dongpo CI Shuo, eight kinds of yuan and Ming opera, Chuai Lu, Buddhist scripture translation literature, and dozens of academic papers have been published. Unfortunately, many of his unpublished manuscripts were destroyed during the ten years of turmoil. After the 1980s, through various collections, we have published Gu Sui's Anthology (Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House, 1986), notes on Mr. Gu Xianji's Poems (Taiwan laurel publishing company, 1992), Gu Sui: a collection of poems and Essays (Tianjin People's publishing house, 1995, with an updated edition in 1997), Gu Sui's meditation (Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House, 1998), Gu Sui's notes on Mao Zhu Xi Shi CI (Hebei Education Press, 2009), Gu Sui and Ye Jiaying (Hebei Education Press, 2009), Gu Sui's book to Zhou Ruchang (Hebei Education Press, 2010). Gu Sui's various works, manuscripts, letters, diaries, etc. were compiled and published by Hebei Education Press. The 7-volume revised edition of Gu Sui's complete works is being printed by Hebei Education Press.

Novels and poems

Gu Sui is also an outstanding writer in modern Chinese literary world. In the early 1920s, he published a lot of short stories in Shandong newspapers, but only one of them is "Fanmu". In the middle period, he published "missing", "confession of Confucius", "mother", "ruins" and so on. During the Anti Japanese War, he published "Tong Er". Since 1927, he has published the old style poetry anthologies of "Wu Bing Ci", "Wei Xin Ci", "wasteland Ci", "Liu Chun Ci", "Sha Ji Ci", "Ru Lu Ci" and "Ku Shui Shi Cun". In 1947, the novella country legend was published in modern literature.

Zaju, calligraphy

Gu Sui is also the last playwright to publish Zaju in the history of Chinese literature. His dramas include: greedy scholar, becoming a monk again, malangfu, Zhu Yingtai, feijiangjun and youchunji. In addition to the publication of "greedy scholar", the rest were compiled as "Kushui Zuo Ju" and "two episodes of Kushui Zuo Ju". Gu Sui, a master of calligraphy, is a master of modern calligraphy. Some of his calligraphy works are included in "calligraphy of the Republic of China" and "dictionary of Chinese calligraphy appreciation".

Preface to a journey to the sea in Zhishan

When I wanted to take the biography of Liaozhaizhiyi Liansuo as a zaju, I don't want to forget it now, but it's only after the three kinds of Zaju are out of manuscript. It was in January 1942 that he began to write. When the winter vacation, more leisure, no matter what I conceive according to the spectrum also. And the third part of the second volume, which was written down in the third part of the second volume, was not able to continue. During the winter and summer vacations, I always thought about writing and fulfilled this long cherished wish. It's three years since I stopped writing with my help. This year's winter vacation is longer than before. The sick body is afraid of cold and is afraid to go out. It's very boring to sit and lie in the room. It's the end of the spectrum. It's like two books of zaju. Gu Shang had no cunzi and Kebai, and he made up for them with ten days' efforts. He deleted them, but he could not recognize them. With ten days' effort, if you copy it by hand, you will be the best one today. It was originally intended to be a tragedy. The title of the play is "singing in autumn grave". It is not only a long time to die, but also a time to tell friends that it is true or not. There is no agreement between inquiry and scheme, and the private intention is also uncertain. At the beginning of this year, it was decided to end with reunion, and the name of you Chun was established.

Mr. Wang Jing'an's research on song and Yuan operas says: "after Ming Dynasty, legends are nothing but comedies, but there are tragedies in Yuan Dynasty." When I was talking about literature and art, I also paid attention to tragedy. It was said that Shakespeare was the most famous dramatist in the world. His tragedy was deeply moving and long-lasting, which was also above his comedy. If there is no tragedy for a wise man, then there is no such thing as a comedian? It should be called "reunion drama" before it can be heard. When I talk about music, I often look at people who are ambitious and evil minded. He also hated the reunion, so it spread to comedy. Now I know it's not. Is it true that people in the Ming Dynasty are not satisfied with music, and they are not satisfied with it? Summer insects can't talk ice. Even if it is a tragedy, how can it be? My teacher Yin Mo, a good husband, wrote on the song, saying: "there is little skill in poetry, and there is no morality involved. If you taste the true meaning of the world, you will know that there are no books In the Ming Dynasty, scholars and scholars regarded themselves as Taoists, sages and sages, and wrote Ci as playthings, or tried to pursue elegance and style, and imitated the prosperous Tang Dynasty. If he does his best in his poems and plays, he will be mediocre, superficial, arrogant and despicable. They are those who want to be rich, noble and prosperous, despicable; those who are concerned with the amorous feelings of men and women, obscene; those who are obsessed with the retribution of misfortune and happiness, corrupt; those who are down to the bottom are ghosts, snake gods, gags, and laughs. Their words are overflowing without returning, and they are obscene without returning. If you don't know the word "human world", let alone its meaning, there is no so-called truth? But it has no truth, so it has no temperament, no insight, no thought. It is so tamed that it is fake to laugh and cry, and vulgar to the top. Therefore, there is no sympathy, no seriousness, no honesty. It's just a shame to say that you can express your feelings, change the world, and change the customs. Who can believe it? The five tastes of husband can't have bitterness without sweetness, and life can't have failure without success. How can drama depict life without reunion? It is not the fault of reunion script style, but the fault of reunion drama that the Ming people do not know why, that is to say, they do not know why. Therefore, I call it a reunion play. Even if it is a tragedy, it is not appropriate.

Or ask people's drama, as Ziyan said, if the Yuan people's drama is true? It should be said: in the past, Mr. Jing'an used the word "nature" to comment on Yuan opera, but now I will try to discuss it further. Mr. Wang's so-called nature, in my view, is naive and naive. The Yuan Dynasty is famous for its prosperity in music, just like Tang Dynasty in poetry, Song Dynasty in CI, from Princes and generals to peddlers. Despite all the authors, their consciousness is not clear and their thinking is not sharp. The superior can see things with natural eyes and express feelings with natural tongue, which is outstanding beyond the poetry of the previous generation and has its own achievements. If you want to be naive, you need to be clear and generous. Although the body is new, the spirit is old, and the life and technology are all limited to the old tradition. His deeds lead to wealth, fame, joys and sorrows, and retribution; his ci poems lead to clouds, flowers, willows, warblers and swallows, poetry and wine. Even the dust soup, the rice, the bagasse and the rotten rat of the old poems are chewed repeatedly, if there is any aftertaste. How naive it is! Sometimes there are wandering things, I walk in the work of the world, and think of myself as lofty, maybe with detachment

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