Author: Zhentang
On February 21, the "Exhibition of InkBlots of Nanshe Friends" sponsored by the United Front Work Department of the Suzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China of Jiangsu Province, the Suzhou Municipal Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, and the Suzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film and Television and Tourism opened at the Suzhou China Nanshe Museum of Culture and History.
2019 coincides with the 110th anniversary of the establishment of Nanshe, the exhibition is the first of a series of commemorative activities, bringing together the handwriting of precious Nanshe sages at home and abroad, such as: Sun Yat-sen, Huang Xing, Song Jiaoren, Cai Yuanpei, Chen Duxiu, Chen Quyi, Gao Xu, Liu Yazi, Huang Binhong, Li Shutong, Su Manshu, Yu Youren, Liu Bannong, Shen Junru, Shen Yinmo and other nearly 100 Nanshe and Xinhai Revolutionary sages. It is understood that many of the exhibits in the exhibition are open to the public for the first time, showing the important position and far-reaching significance of Nanshe in the inheritance and development of Chinese culture.
Founded in 1909 and dissolved in 1923, Nanshe was the largest literati society in modern China, with more than 1,100 members at the most, covering 13 provinces and 39 cities in China, most of which are new types of intellectuals who appeared after the Penghu Reform, and are a collection of elites in modern Chinese literature, art, education, journalism, publishing, translation and other aspects. Politicians Huang Xing, Song Jiaoren, and Yu Youren, literary scholars Su Manshu, Bao Tianxiao, and Zhou Shuangjuan, calligraphers and painters Huang Binhong, Bai Bao, and Shen Yinmo, newspaper reporters Dai Jitao, Shao Piaoping, and Lin Baishui, dramatists Wu Mei, Li Shutong, and Ouyang Yuqian, translators Ma Junwu, educator Jing Hengyi, traditional Chinese scholars Deng Shi, Huang Kan, and Ma Xulun, Yang Xingfo and Ren Hongjun, who founded Science magazine, and female lyricists Lü Bicheng and Zhang Mojun, have all been listed in the society and have participated in the activities of the Nanshe Society at different times.
Nanshe inherited the feudal dynasty and the new cultural movement, and its members were not only the last literati in China to systematically receive traditional Sinology education, but also the cultural pioneers who opened their eyes to the world earlier. Before the New Culture Movement, the work of transforming society and awakening the people's ideological enlightenment and ideological emancipation was basically promoted by the emerging intellectuals of the Nanshe generation. Chen Ying, deputy research librarian of Shanghai Library, introduced: The contribution of Nanshe people to Chinese culture can be divided into two aspects, one is to introduce Western studies, and the other is to preserve Chinese studies. Different from people's usual understanding of Nanshe, in fact, many advanced Western cultures were first introduced to China by Nanshe people. For example: Li Shutong (1880-1942, Nanshe entered the company number 211), the pioneer of Chinese drama, he once went to Japan in 1905 to study, he and his classmate Zeng Xiaogu and other students who stayed in Japan founded the "Spring Willow Drama Society" is China's first drama group, and has performed in Japan such as "La Traviata Girl" and "Black Slave Wu Tianlu". Sumanshu (1884-1918, Nanshe Entry No. 243), as early as 1903, translated "Miserable Society", became the first translation of Hugo's Chinese "Les Misérables". He was also the first poet to systematically translate Byron's poetry, and his collection of translated poems, The Collected Poems of Byron, was the first collection of foreign poetry in the history of Chinese translation. Xia Junzun (1886-1946, Nanshe Entry No. 454), translated "The Education of Love" and had a great influence on Chinese education.
On the other hand, in modern times, the Nanshe people have always played a leading role in the study and preservation of sinology, and they are committed to sorting out and integrating traditional culture to make it revitalized. As early as 1905, before the establishment of the Nanshe Society, the Nanshe Society had established the Sinology Research Organization, the Guoxue Preservation Society, which was also the most important non-governmental academic organization advocating the preservation of Sinology at that time, and its main cadres such as Zhang Taiyan, Deng Shi, Zhu Zongyuan, Huang Jie, Liu Shipei, Chen Quyi, ma Sulun, etc., were all first-class Sinologists at that time.
In the process of the Chinese nation's modernization under the invasion of Western civilization, the members of the Nanshe Society have realized their adherence to the main body of Chinese culture and undertaken the heavy responsibility of passing on the torch of Chinese culture. In fact, many of the members of the Nanshe Society are themselves participants in the New Culture Movement. Such as the well-known new cultural cadre Shen Yinmo and so on. By 1923, Liu Yazi, Ye Chuling, Hu Pu'an, Yu Shimei, and Shao Lizi, five old people of the Nanshe Society, plus Chen Wangdao, Cao Juren, and Chen Dehao, three newcomers of the new culture, initiated the establishment of the New Nanshe in that year, and took a clear stand on the side of the new culture. Other Members of the Southern Society also set up new publications and wrote new poems during this period, and threw themselves into the movement.
It can be said that in China's modern and contemporary history, both the Nanshe Society and the New Culture Movement are important forces to promote social change and cultural innovation. During the more than ten years that Nanshe was active, the new type of intellectuals represented by the friends of nanshe society, with the hidden worry of the loss of the national soul, devoted themselves to preserving and developing the national culture of the Chinese nation, laid a solid foundation for the new cultural movement, and made a generation of efforts to preserve traditional Chinese culture.