she sings an old song

she sings an old song

He Manzi (1919-2009), formerly known as sun Chengxun, was born in Fuyang, Zhejiang Province in 1919. He is a famous essayist. Before liberation, he served as a reporter of Hengyang Li Bao, a reporter of Nanjing Dagang Bao, and a special commissioner of Tianjin Yishi Bao in Nanjing. After liberation, he was the general manager of Shanghai Freedom Forum evening news, the public bookstore, Professor of Chinese Department of Sinian University, editor and editor of Shanghai Classical Literature Publishing House and Shanghai ancient books publishing house. In his early years, he was engaged in the study of aesthetics and literary theory, and later in the study of ancient Chinese novels, as well as in the study of ideological history and folklore. More than 30 monographs have been published, including the theory of art form, on the unofficial history of the scholars, the collection of ancient scholars, Chinese wine culture, the relationship between men and women in Chinese love stories, and essays. He died in Shanghai Ruijin Hospital on the evening of May 8, 2009.

brief introduction

He Manzi read journey to the west at the age of 7, and wrote stories in classical Chinese at the age of 10. When he was young, he Manzi, who grew up in a big family, received a western style private school education. "In those days, my family had three tutors. They taught literature and history in Qianqing, and they taught mathematics, chemistry and foreign languages in Cambridge. One of them said, "I'm good enough to be a Cambridge graduate."

Since he Manzi was 18 years old, he has been engaged in the war of resistance against Japan, the war of liberation, the anti rightist movement and the cultural revolution One movement after another, the old man who was born in 1919 was in decline. "I was born in 1919, during the May 4th movement that year, when I was 18 years old, it was the war of resistance again." He Manzi later went to Shanghai to fight against Japan and began his legendary life. From Shanghai to Wuhan and then to Yan'an, "I stayed in Yan'an for only a few months, but as soon as I left Yan'an, I was detained by the Kuomintang and sent to the Zhan Gan regiment." With the help of Cheng Zhongwen, the chief editor of the former Luoyang "Zhen Zhong daily", he left the Zhan Gan group and wandered all the way to Chengdu. From then on, he began to write newspaper supplements.

After the founding of new China, he Manzi came to the Chinese Department of Sinian university to teach, but he was led into the Hu Feng case. On May 17, 1955, he Manzi was handcuffed as soon as he got up. The prisoner's code name was "1046", but I didn't know Hu Feng at all, and the problem of Hu Feng was only a literary academic problem. Many of the people I locked up with were my good friends, including Jia Zhifang, Mei Lin and Geng Yong. " Later, the ad hoc group ran all over the country and found nothing wrong. On September 28 of that year, he Manzi returned to freedom. However, in the anti rightist movement, he Manzi's family was assigned to the foot of Helan Mountain in Ningxia and was not transferred back to Shanghai until 1964. During the "Cultural Revolution", he Manzi was sent back to his hometown of Fuyang for farming, and did not return to Shanghai until 1978.

works

Since the implementation of the policy in 1978, he Manzi has really entered the peak of writing. He Manzi often said that his life began at the age of 60. In the past 30 years, he has written more than 50 books and published a series of essays, such as "Wu Za Kan", "fragments of human customs", "elegant demeanor of medieval literati", "pictures of Three Kingdoms".

old age

He Manzi died at 22:36 on May 8, 2009 in Shanghai Ruijin Hospital. He was 91 years old.

Chinese PinYin : He Man Zi