Wu Shichang

Wu Shichang

Wu Shichang (1908-1986), a famous Sinologist and scholar of Red Mansions. Wu Shichang is famous for the study of Redology. His great works, such as exploring the origin of a dream of Red Mansions and exploring the origin of a dream of Red Mansions, have opened up a new way for the study of Redology.

Profile

Wu Shichang (1908-1986), Zi Zang, was born in Xiashi, Haining, Zhejiang Province. Famous Sinologist and Hongxue. He lost his mother at 8 and his father at 10. At the age of 12, he was sent to a Chinese medicine shop as an apprentice before finishing primary school. Wu Shichang had a spirit of working hard since he was a child. In 1925, he entered Xiuzhou middle school in Jiaxing as a "self-help student". It took him only two and a half years to finish all the middle school courses, and was admitted to the second year of preparatory course of Nankai University. A year later, he was admitted to the English Department of Yanjing University. After graduation, he was exceptionally absorbed as a graduate student of the Institute of Sinology of Harvard Yanjing society with excellent results and obtained a master's degree.

Life of the characters

He is also a CI poet with profound insight, a scholar who is well versed in Chinese and Western culture and history. In 1947, Wu Shichang was invited to give lectures at Oxford University, and served as a member of the doctoral degree examination committee of Oxford and Cambridge universities. After returning to China in 1962, he was a researcher in the Institute of literature, Ministry of philosophy and Social Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Since 1978, he has also served as a member of the first discipline appraisal group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council. At the same time, I personally reported on the cultivation of master's and doctoral students. Wu Shichang is a sincere patriot. During the May 30th Movement, he studied in Xiuzhou middle school in Jiaxing and launched a student patriotic movement. After the September 18th Incident, Wu Shichang was the first to post a "letter to all students" in Yanjing University, which ignited the flames of Anti Japanese activities in the University and was elected president of the first student Anti Japanese Association of Yanjing University. After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, he published poems in Xinhua daily against Chiang Kai Shek's civil war. In 1962, when the country was in a difficult period, he politely declined the employment of some foreign universities, resolutely responded to Premier Zhou's call and led his family back to participate in socialist construction. In his later years, Wu Shichang also actively participated in various social activities. He is a member of the fourth and Fifth National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference, a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and vice chairman of the education, science, culture and Health Committee of the National People's Congress. he is also the consultant of the 87 version of a dream of Red Mansions.

Characters and deeds

Mr. Wu Shichang was born in a poor family. Generally speaking, he was self-taught. He once recalled reading Du Mu's a Fang Gong Fu when he was a teenager. There was no punctuation in the old book. At the beginning of the book, he saw only 12 words: "Six Kings live in the four seas, one Shushan Wu a Fang Chu". He could not understand it. He ran to ask his elder brother Wu Qichang, who was four years older than him. Instead of teaching him, he asked, "what is six?" Answer: "four five six of six." "And the king?" "The king." "What is Bi?" "It's over." "What about the six kings? Let's talk about it together. " Answer: "six kings are over." "It's not right. How can I not understand it?" His brother encouraged him. Such a question and answer, only "Wu" word really do not understand, brother said is "bare". "Why are the mountains in Sichuan bare?" he asked "Think for yourself." "There are no more trees." "Where is the tree?" "Cut it off?" "What for?" When he saw the following sentence: "a Fang Chu", he replied: "a Fang Gong has been built." I get it all at once. Mr. Wang said: "their uneducated teaching is more effective than any other teaching, which makes me form the habit of asking and answering questions and studying by myself." The same is true of learning words. He is different from many CI poets and has a clear relationship of learning from others, but he is totally self-made. He said: when I read CI in junior high school, I was cheated, that is to say, I was cheated by the Suoyin school and some annotators. The first book he read was CI Xuan by Zhang Huiyan. Zhang said that Wen Tingyun's "Bodhisattva man" is "the feeling of a scholar is not met". Feng Zhengzhong's "magpie steps on a branch" is "loyal and affectionate, just like the meaning of Sao and Bian". He also said that "this word is covered with a row of dissidents". These comments and contents can't be connected. The more you look at them, the more confused you are. You can't read them any more. After college, I studied in the English Department, but because I was interested in poetry, I went to the Chinese Department to listen to Mr. Gu Sui and Mr. Wen you. He thought on his own. The first collection of words he read was "halal Ci". He found out the rhymes and sentences by himself, and then checked the allusions to find out the original meaning thoroughly. After a period of exploration, I finally realized that the word itself is clear and understandable, and the Changzhou school's comments are deceptive. From this, we can draw a lesson: we should read raw material books, read less or not anthologies and annotated books, and think independently so as not to be deceived. Mr. Wu Shichang's theory of Ci Poetry advocates the word "truth", and he should "tell the truth" when he fills in Ci poetry. The study of Ci poetry and ci poetry should conform to its original true appearance. His views on Ci poetry are as follows: first, he never believed in the Suoyin school's theory of "subtle meaning" and "sustenance"; second, he opposed to the bold and graceful delimitation; third, he discussed Ci Poetry in terms of the structure of Ci poetry itself to understand it, and tried to clear up some unreliable materials in Qingning people's Ci poetry. These are the most fundamental problems in the study of Ci, and they are also the first to be clarified. In 1982, he was invited to give lectures in Japan and gave a lecture on "some issues related to CI studies", which caused a sensation in Japanese Sinological circles. Asahi Shimbun said that Wu Shichang created a new theory and challenged the traditional view of CI theory! Mr. Wang's poems are highly valued by experts. In his own words, it is "the old poems of the early years came and went in Tang and Song dynasties. They were not limited to one family. The ci poetry takes two paths to enter halal and Jiaxuan, but does not like Mengchuang and Yutian. " This book selected part of his old poetry creation.

Character evaluation

Wu Shichang lived a life of being true and seeking truth in his studies. He never lost his authority, let alone followed others. He advocates independent thinking. On the issue of principle, he never gives in and always maintains a vigorous spirit of courageous pursuit of truth. "He often sleeps when reading, but it's hard to change when he is jealous of evil." this is a poem in his seventy years of self narration, and also a true portrayal of his poetic career.

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