"If the two of us dream together in the sound of the rain, how different the realms are, or how insomnia in the rain together, how delicious it is."
- Zhu Shenghao and Song Qingru joint burial epitaph
Zhu Shenghao, a famous translator in the Republic of China, is known as a "model in the translation industry", and The Complete Works of Shakespeare, china's first complete collection of foreign literature, was translated by Zhu Shenghao.
Zhu Shenghao is often jokingly called "no lust" Mu Ne Shusheng by his friends, and he once commented on women: "Women have no love, and their so-called love is actually loved." "
And Song Qingru was also a very assertive girl when she was young, she said: "Marriage is the graveyard of love, the family is the cage of women, marriage means losing everything, to study and not to marry." "
It is such two people, but they wrote love letters to each other for ten years, entered the "wall" of marriage, but embraced each other for a short time.
In 1932, at Hangzhou Zhijiang University, everyone knew Zhu Shenghao, the fourth-year "Zhijiang Talent". He is a well-known literary hero in the poetry club of Zhijiang University. It's just that Zhu Shenghao has been an orphan since he was a child, and he has been fostered in someone else's home, silent and taciturn, and treated people coldly.
When Song Qingru just entered the school, she heard about this Zhijiang Caizi, she wanted to enter the poetry club, and sent the poems she wrote directly to Zhu Shenghao, Zhu Shenghao took it in his hand and looked at it, and did not say anything, he was attracted by Song Qingru's spiritual beauty at that time, and saw that the poems in his hand were full of talent and aura, he smiled shyly, and did not comment on it.
But Song Qingru was worried, she didn't know what Zhu Shenghao had in mind, she didn't know if her own poetry was too clumsy. Unexpectedly, Zhu Shenghao directly introduced her into the poetry club, and in the applause of the crowd, she became a member of the poetry club, and from then on she could often meet with Zhu Shenghao.
Since then, Zhu Shenghao has continued to write letters to Song Qingru, and the letters are often poems written by him, asking Song Qingru to comment. And Song Qingru also replied to the past very seriously, and the two warmed up their feelings in each other's discussion.
But Zhu Shenghao has not been able to express her feelings directly to Song Qingru, she heard that Song Qingru came from a wealthy family, and she went to college on the condition that she "do not have a dowry" as a condition. She is very assertive, compared to the humble Zhu Shenghao, Song Qingru is independent and uninhibited, she said in the poetry club: "Women dress beautifully is self-contempt and self-contempt. "It shocked everyone.
Zhu Shenghao has always had a very close female friend in the poetry club, which makes Song Qingru very uncomfortable, once she saw the two of them chatting intimately together, very angry and walked away. Zhu Shenghao was afraid that she would misunderstand, and wrote to her specifically to explain. Even if the relationship between the two has been like this, it has not been broken.
The following summer, after the teacher's introduction, Zhu Shenghao went to shanghai world bookstore as a translator, after work, Zhu Shenghao's world is more closed, he is alone, never communicate with people, only when writing to Song Qingru, only to a young man who fell in love.
Soon the war burned to Shanghai, Zhu Shenghao's work was affected, his salary dropped again and again, and Song Qingru also went to Sichuan to avoid disaster after the fall of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and then went to Chongqing as a teacher. At a time when Zhu Shenghao was confused about the future, Mr. Lu Xun published three articles about Shakespeare, encouraging literary creators to translate Shakespeare's works. Encouraged by Mr. Lu Xun, major bookstores began to organize the translation of world famous works, and Zhu Shenghao took over the task of translating the complete works of Shakespeare, which was only two yuan per thousand words.
Since then, most of the letters song Qingru has received are Zhu Shenghao's views on Shakespeare's works. One day, Zhu Shenghao told Song Qingru that this translation would become a gift for him to propose to her. Song Qingru's fear of marriage after seeing this proposal letter was even stronger than the surprise of the proposal. Zhu Shenghao knew that Song Qingru was an unmarried person, and he knew that he could not force it, so he could only keep writing letters to her. In this way, Zhu Shenghao actually wrote more than 300 love letters to Song Qingru before and after. Song Qingru was finally impressed, and she accepted Zhu Shenghao's marriage proposal.
The two traveled from place to place until the autumn of 1940, when Song Qingru returned to Shanghai again, when they saw each other again. In those days, when everyone couldn't even eat enough, who was in the mood to chant poetry and appreciate poetry? In 1941, Zhu Shenghao lost his job, and soon Song Qingru also lost his job. At that time, Zhu Shenghao was working at the Sino-American Daily newspaper, and the Japanese army rushed in and burned all the books and materials. Zhu Shenghao escaped from the newspaper office without wearing a single belonging, Song Qingru wanted to return to Chongqing to continue her teaching profession, she told Zhu Shenghao what she thought, and wanted Zhu Shenghao to accompany her.
Zhu Shenghao agreed. At this time, their college classmate Zhang Quan said to them, you go like this, you don't live together, you can't afford it financially, you live together, and others must be gossiping. Both are 30 years old, and their parents are also anxious, so it is better to get married and leave.
So the two married in such a hurry, and there were Japanese bandits on the road at that time, many paths were not easy to walk, they had to take a detour, and they did not know what kind of dangers would be encountered on this road. So they finally decided to go to Jiaxing Zhu Shenghao's hometown, they took a set of Sha Weng complete works, two dictionaries, and Zhu Shenghao under the simple environment to carry out difficult creation.
After ten years of bitter love, the two finally came together, but Zhu Shenghao was very sad, and he did not let Song Qingru live a comfortable day. In order to support her husband's translation career, a once independent and strong woman would rather be a housewife from then on. However, the biggest difficulty was not the economic embarrassment, but Zhu Shenghao's health was getting worse and worse, and under difficult conditions, he actually delayed into tuberculosis. Even before his death, he was still unwilling, his life was so short, full of talent, but there was not enough time. He translated more desperately, and Song Qingru took on the work of proofreading.
Zhu Shenghao said: "Translation is the most meaningless work, and in the end it is not his own work." "How hard is it for translation to get to the top? But he did, and even though he lived only 32 years, he still completed the most complete and good quality shakespeare plays to date, and even today, we see that his works are still full of the beauty of words, gentle and smooth, without the slightest pain in the pain of illness, and the despair of death.
When Zhu Shenghao's translation was finally published, he had been dead for 4 years. Song Qingru only did two things in the second half of her life, publishing her husband's translation and continuing to raise her children silently. She no longer had the sharpness and uninhibitedness of the past, she always kept the letters of the two, occasionally wrote, and continued to write love letters with Zhu Shenghao.
In 1997, at the age of 86, Song Qingru passed away, and according to her last wishes, she and her husband were buried together.