Zhao Ziyue is a writerLao SheHis novels were published in 1927 and first published in April 1928.
Taking a group of college students in the rooftop apartment as the object of description, the work shows the "serious and chaotic scene" of the student movement, satirizes and criticizes it, and describes the process of this group of students from obsession, mischief to awakening.[1]
The novel depicts the upsurge of Mingzheng University in Beijing, where Zhao Ziyue, Wu Duan, Mo Danian and other students chased teachers and principals.Afterwards, Zhao Ziyue was expelled from school.Later, Zhao Ziyue went to Tianjin for a period of time, and then returned to Beijing.He saw many changes in the apartment. Li Jingchun, Mo Danian and Ouyang Tianfeng left the apartment in a bad way.Ouyang Tianfeng launched the Women's Rights Development Association. Zhao Ziyue participated in the fund raising activity. Ouyang Tianfeng embezzled public funds, and his classmate Wu Duan quarreled with him again.Later, Wu Duan became a member of the Construction Section of the Municipal Council. Ouyang Tianfeng wanted to introduce Ms. Wang, whom he knew, to him in order to curry favor with him.Later, Ouyang Tianfeng found Zhao Ziyue and asked him to meet Ms. Wang.In a letter, Ms. Wang advised Zhao Ziyue not to be at the mercy of others.One day, Zhao Ziyue and Wu Duan heard that Li Jingchun was arrested.Zhao Ziyue, Mo Danian and Wu Duan all actively rescued Li Jingchun. Only from Li Jingchun did people know the whole story.It turned out that after Ms. Wang lost her parents, she lived with relatives. She met Ouyang Tianfeng in Shanghai and soon lived together.Professor Zhang is a relative of Ouyang Tianfeng. He often takes Professor Zhang's money to eat, drink, whore and gamble. For this reason, Professor Zhang no longer donates to him.Ouyang Tianfeng still pesters Ms. Wang and asks her to marry a rich man, so that he can make money and let it go.Later, Ouyang Tianfeng colluded with the warlords in an attempt to assassinate Professor Zhang by others.Professor Zhang and Ms. Wang were forced to travel to Japan.Li Jingchun decided to assassinate the warlord out of sympathy.Later, Li Jingchun was killed. Zhao Ziyue and others were determined to live up to his hopes and fight against warlords.[2]
Creation background
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Zhao Ziyue, Lao She's second novel, was written in 1926 when Lao She was lecturing on Britain.[3]After the publication of Lao Zhang's Philosophy, the author hoped to know the response and criticism of readers from all over China. However, he was far away from his motherland, and the news was not smooth, which made it difficult for him to understand too much.Without taking full account of the readers' opinions, he went on to write Zhao Ziyue with the joy of being published soon after his long debut.[4]
Introduction
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Zhao Ziyue
Zhao Ziyue is a student of Mingzheng University. He lives in the rooftop apartment in Beijing with other students.One day, after a heated discussion with Wu Duan, Mo Danian and Ouyang Tianfeng, he decided to take part in the school strike.So Zhengming University also started a trend.Zhao Ziyue was naturally also a major participant in the student craze.He beat people in the school tide and was injured in hospital.As the leader of the school boom, he was expelled from the school.Zhao Ziyue often regretted that he had a wife with small feet at home. Ouyang Tianfeng volunteered to introduce Ms. Wang to him, which made him very happy.Later, he discovered that Ouyang Tianfeng didn't really introduce him.Ouyang Tianfeng had lived with Ms. Wang long before that.After that, Zhao Ziyue went to Tianjin Shenyi University to study and taught English at the home of a congressman.In Tianjin, he met a woman and fell in love with her. He was about to marry her, but found that the woman was the mistress of an officer who lost his job.He dared not offend the officers, so he quit his job as a tutor and returned to Beijing.Li Jingchun, a good friend, was arrested for assassinating the murderous commander Wang. Zhao Ziyue, together with his good friends Mo Danian, Wu Duan and others, tried their best to rescue Li Jingchun.The camp and teaching activities ended in no results.Li Jingchun was shot.So Zhao Ziyue decided to live up to Li Jingchun's hopes, either to study hard or to fight with warlords.Zhao Ziyue embodied the weakness of vulgar, weak and ignorant citizens.He is often fooled and acts as an accomplice and servant to the wrongdoers.He is a "bad guy" who imitates bad guys.[5]
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Ideological theme
Lao She paid attention to the common sufferings of the bottom of the society, and he built an ideal life picture in the eyes of the bottom people in the civil society: their most essential requirement is to have a safe and clean house, and their families live together in harmony and warmth;Have a craft in life, realize the desire of material abundance and freedom, and live a vigorous life.Lao She also has his own way with folk characteristics to improve the unfairness in reality.As Li Jingchun said to Zhao Zi, "Now there are only two ways to go: one is to study with your head down, and go to the folk to do something after reading, and slowly cultivate the popularity of the people; the other is to kill people." Lao She is not only a writer born in the folk, but also a proletariat in the folk due to poverty,It can fully represent the lower class people of that era: they suffered from the turbulence and hardship of life, and looked forward to stability, so they would naturally choose the first way.The unrest in schools belongs to something that happens in a special world that has nothing to do with itself, so it is difficult to resonate. In addition to destruction and casualties, it is difficult to see the practical significance behind it.However, the indiscriminate destruction in the student movement is obviously against the folk ideal of down-to-earth peaceful transformation and taking the initiative to help maintain justice, and cannot be approved by the people.[6]
The novel depicts three types of college students studying in Beijing's "Mingzheng University" in the early 1920s: the first type, represented by Zhao Ziyue and Wu Duan, spent their time in a muddle. They didn't care about reading at school, and they didn't eat, drink and play all day long. They also walked out of school and beat the president at the instigation of villains. After leaving school, they still fooled around without ideals, trying to climb higher branchesContact with official luck;The second one is represented by Ouyang Tianfeng, who is devoid of conscience and hooliganism, and belongs to the extreme scum in the college student team. The third one is represented by Li Jingchun, who was born in poverty, studied hard and made progress, had great ambitions, and dared to fight against the dark forces.By showing what these three types of college students have done, the work expresses close attention to the spiritual trend of urban educated youth under the domestic corruption situation, examines the embodiment of traditional national character in this extraordinary period and unique crowd, and also shows the author's distinctive position against colonial cultural erosion and feudal warlord politics.[4]
artistic characteristics
In terms of the plot of Zhao Ziyue, it is not written smoothly, but arranged in order in a preset structural framework. Almost all the characters and stories in the novel revolve around Wang Lingshi, a female student. However, Wang Lingshi never appears in front of the plot in the work, and finally uses her two letters,To give a general answer to all the suspensions in the work, greatly enhancing the artistic effect of the novel.[4]
Work evaluation
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Modern litterateurZheng ZhenduoThe author of Zhao Ziyue is Lao Shejun, who wrote Lao Zhang's Philosophy. This Zhao Ziyue is more advanced than Lao Zhang's Philosophy. It does not write about a class of idle teachers, but about a class of students, whom we often meet and associate with.Lao She Jun writes about Beijing student life and Beijing apartment life in a relaxed and delicate style, which is very realistic and moving.The personalities of several people in Zhao Ziyue can be seen in front of our readers, but the latter part of Zhao Ziyue is put into a serious narrative. There is no humor in the first half. However, the writing style is equally active, and its ending with the story of a great victim can make us have endless regrets.The book made us laugh at first, then moved, and finally sad and angry.[7]
Lao She (from February 3, 1899 to August 24, 1966), 67 years old, formerly known as Shu Qingchun, with the word Sheyu, was a Manchu, a native of old Beijing (Manchu Zhenghongqi people), a modern Chinese novelist, dramatist, and writer, and was awarded the title of "People's Artist".He used to be the headmaster of primary school, middle school teacher and university professor.The pen names are "Sheyu" and "Lao She".Lao She is his most commonly used pseudonym, with other pseudonyms such as Honglai and Feiwo.He once served as a professor in Shandong University and other schools.His main works in his life include:《The Ricksha Boy》《Four generations in the same hall》And unfinished "Under the Red Flag", drama "Longxu Valley"《teahouse》Etc.[8]
