In the early morning of May 25, Yang Dai, the famous female writer, literary translator and foreign literary researcher, Qian Zhongshu's wife, died of illness at Peking Union Medical College Hospital at the age of 105.
We usually call beautiful women beautiful women, talented women call intellectual women, and only women who are both beautiful and talented will be called - talented women.
The talented women of the Republic of China are the memories and yearning of many people for the perfect Chinese women. Mr. Yang Dai passed away, and the last talented woman of the Republic of China is no longer there. We may wish to take stock of the 10 talented women of the Republic of China and their final outcome, and leave this unique oriental female beauty in our hearts.
Yang Dai (17 July 1911 – 25 May 2016) was a famous Chinese writer, dramatist and translator. He has written "Six Memories of Cadre School", "We Both", "Walking to the Edge of Life"... Don Quixote, translated by her, is recognized as the best translation masterpiece, and by 2014 had distributed more than 700,000 copies.
Yang Dai was envied for her beautiful marriage with Qian Zhongshu, a master of literature and history. Before his death, Qian Zhongshu once called him "the most talented woman and the most virtuous wife." What is rare is that Yang Dai's identity in the history of literature is not only Qian Zhongshu's wife, but also a famous writer, translator, and foreign literary researcher. In popular parlance, Yang Dai and Qian Zhongshu have a rare "equally matched" love in the world.
Yang Dai, formerly known as Yang Jikang, was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, on July 17, 1911 in Beijing. When he was a teenager, he studied in Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou and other places. He graduated from Soochow University in Suzhou in 1932 with a bachelor's degree in literature, and was admitted to the Graduate School of Tsinghua University in that year as a graduate student of foreign Chinese and chinese literature. In 1935, he married Qian Zhongshu and went to England and France with her husband in the summer of the same year. In the autumn of 1938, he returned to China and served as a professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at The Aurora Women's College of Arts and Sciences in Shanghai and a professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at Tsinghua University. After 1949, he was transferred to the Institute of Foreign Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences as a researcher.
Mr. Yang Dai's first work was the short story "Lu Lu, don't worry! It was published in the Ta Kung Pao Literary supplement in early 1934. In the early 1940s, she wrote the comedies "Satisfying the Heart" and "Making It True", which were written and staged in Shanghai after the fall of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, which caused great repercussions at that time. Since the 1980s, it has been a "new era" for Yang Dai's creation, and her achievements in prose and fiction have attracted the attention of the world.
As a researcher of foreign literature, Mr. Yang Has written many theoretical works commenting on Spanish and English literary masterpieces, such as articles on Don Quixote, Leper and Celestina, as well as on the British writer Fielding.
As a translator, Mr. Yang Dai's literary translation achievements are outstanding, in addition to "Don Quixote", she also translated the Spanish tramp novel "The Leper", the French literary masterpiece "Gil Blass", and the ancient Greek prose Plato's "Dialogue" "Phaedo".
After entering the new century, in addition to sorting out and compiling Qian Zhong's posthumous manuscripts, Mr. Yang Dai also created a number of reminiscent essays such as "Remembering Chen Hengzhe", "Unforgettable Day" and "I Went to School in Qiming"; the family chronicle essay "The Two of Us", published in June 2003, deeply touched readers with its sincere emotions and beautiful and timeless writing, and became a super bestseller in 2003. In 2014, the 103-year-old Yang Dai's new book "After the Bath" was published in August, which is the sequel written by Mr. Yang Dai for his novel "Bath" after the age of 98.
Ending: Yang Dai was alone in his later years, and died in the early morning of May 25, 2016 at Peking Union Medical College Hospital at the age of 105.
Zhang Ailing (1920.09.30 – 1995.09.08) was a famous Modern Chinese writer and ex-husband Hu Lancheng. He is the author of "The Blue of the Fallen City", "Red Rose and White Rose", "Half Life", "Color Ring", "Little Reunion"... wait.
Zhang Ailing, a modern Chinese writer, was originally known as Zhang Ying. Born on September 30, 1920 in the West District of Shanghai Public Concession. Zhang Ailing's works include novels, essays, film scripts, and literary treatises, and her letters have been studied as part of her work.
In 1943, her debut novel "Agarwood Crumbs" (the first and second incense) was published by Zhou Slender in Violet magazine. Subsequently, he successively published masterpieces such as "Love in the Fallen City" and "The Book of Golden Locks". The next three or four years were a bumper harvest period for her creations, and her works were mostly published in magazines such as Heaven and Earth and Vientiane. She married Hu Lancheng at the age of 23 and broke up after the victory of the War of Resistance. After the liberation of Shanghai in 1949, he published a novel under the pen name of Liang Jing in the Shanghai Yi Bao. In 1950, he participated in the first Literary Congress in Shanghai. In 1952, he moved to Hong Kong and worked for the American Press Office, where he published novels such as "Love in the Red Land" and "Song of Straw".
Zhang Ailing's personality gathers a lot of contradictions: she is a hedonist who is good at bringing art to life and art of life, and she is also a person who is full of tragedy about life; she is a famous lady of your house, but she proudly declares that she is a small citizen who supports herself; she is miserable and pitiful, and always sees the "pity" behind the "ridiculousness" of all sentient beings, but in actual life she appears indifferent and indifferent; she understands people's sophistication, but she herself is my own way of doing my own thing and is alone and lonely.
Ending: Zhang Ailing and Hu Lancheng's emotional entanglement almost accompanied her all her life, and on the night of September 8, 1995 (Mid-Autumn Festival), Zhang Ailing, a talented woman who had attracted attention to the Chinese literary world, died in her apartment in the Westwood District of Los Angeles at the age of seventy-four.
Lü Bicheng (1883 – January 24, 1943) was known as "the last female lyricist in the past three hundred years", praised as "the last female lyricist in the past three hundred years", and he and Qiu Jin were known as "female double heroes", poet, political commentator, social activist, and capitalist. In the first one or two decades of the 20th century, the Chinese literary circles, the women's circles and even the entire social circles once had a major landscape of "the envy of the people who support the curtain and push Lü Bicheng everywhere".
Lü Bicheng, a native of Jingde, Anhui, was born in 1884. Lü Bicheng and her sisters Lü Huiru and Lü Meisun were both famous for their poetry, known as "Huainan Sanlu, the world's famous." When Lü Bicheng was 12 years old, the attainment of poetry and calligraphy had reached a very high standard, and Fan Zengxiang, who was known as a "talented son" at that time, read Lü Bicheng's poems and couldn't help but clap the case. When someone told him it was actually just the work of a 12-year-old girl, he was too surprised to believe it.
In many of Lü Bicheng's articles, she talks about the idea of how to build a strong country. She believes that in this competitive world, if China wants to become a powerful country, it must have 40 million people working together, so the power of 20 million women cannot be ignored. Emancipation of women, equal rights for men and women is the only way to make the country strong. She hopes to use her own power to influence the world and save the people. In 1912, Yuan Shikai became the provisional president of the Republic of China in Beijing, And Lü Bicheng was hired as the secretary of the presidential office, she was ambitious and wanted to show her ambitions, but the dark official field made her feel disheartened, and when Yuan Shikai deliberately claimed that the emperor's ambitions were obvious in 1915, Lü Bicheng resolutely resigned from beijing and moved to Shanghai.
Ending: Died alone in Kowloon, Hong Kong on 24 January 1943 at the age of 61. The remains did not leave the bones, and after being cremated into ashes, the ashes and noodles were turned into pills and thrown into the South China Sea. Among the celebrities and celebrities in the society with whom she interacted, there were many talents and high-ranking officials, but in the matter of marriage, the shadow of early abandonment has always been troubled, coupled with her self-esteem, she always feels that there is no match around her, so she prefers to die alone. When a friend asked about her marriage, she replied, "There are not many men who can be praised in life." As a result, although Lü Bicheng had an elegant posture, he never married.
Xiao HongXiao Hong (June 2, 1911 – January 21, 1942), formerly known as Zhang Naiying, was a modern and contemporary Chinese writer. He has authored "The Field of Life and Death" and "The Legend of Hulan River"... wait. She is known as one of the "Four Talented Women of the Republic of China" and is known as "Literary Roselle in the 30s".
Xiao Hong was born in 1911 in Hulan District, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province. Famous female writer. In 1935, with the support of Lu Xun, he published the famous work "The Field of Life and Death". In 1936, in order to get rid of his spiritual troubles, he traveled to Japan and wrote the essay "Lonely Life" and the long group poem "Sand Grain". In 1940, he arrived in Hong Kong with Duanmu Hongliang, and later published the novella "Ma Bole" and the famous novel "The Legend of Hulan River".
Xiao Hong, known as the "literary Roselle of the 30s", is the most tragic woman in the four talented women of the Republic of China, and is also a legendary figure, she has the same life experience as the female lyricist Li Qingzhao, and has been in extreme suffering and ups and downs, which can be described as the more unfortunate person in the unfortunate. However, she faced the whole world with a weak and sickly body, and in the midst of national disasters, she experienced the experience of rebellion, awakening and resistance, and fought against fate again and again.
Ending: On January 12, 1942, the Japanese army occupied Hong Kong. Xiao Hong's condition worsened, and she was sent to Hong Kong Happy Valley Sanatorium and Hospital, where she mishandled the throat tube due to misdiagnosis by a quack doctor, and the operation caused Xiao Hong to be unable to eat or drink and her body to be weak. On January 15, Tuanmu Hongliang and Luo Binji transferred Xiao Hong to Queen Mary Hospital. The next day, Xiao Hong's spirit gradually recovered, and she wrote on the paper that "I will be with the blue sky and clear water forever, leaving the half of the "Red Chamber" for others to write", "Half of my life has been met with white eyes,...... Die first, unwillingly, unwillingly. On 21 January, Hospital Mary was taken over by the Japanese army, and Xiao Hong was sent to the temporary hospital set up by the Red Cross in Santa Timothy. On January 22, 1942, Xiao Hong passed away and left the world lonely in the midst of war, at the age of 31. On January 24, Xiao Hong's body was cremated at the Japanese crematorium behind Happy Valley and buried in Repulse Bay.
Shi Pingmei (1902 – September 30, 1928) was a chinese modern and contemporary female writer and revolutionary activist who wrote "The Red Mane Horse" and "The Horse Hissing Wind"... wait.
Formerly known as Rubi, he was a native of Chengguan County, Pingding County, Shanxi Province. Shi Pingmei has been bright and studious since childhood, very popular with her parents, from the age of three or four, her father taught her to recognize, insisting on it every night, sometimes she did not recognize it, although it was late at night, she was not allowed to sleep until she was familiar with it. In the summer of 1919, Shi Pingmei graduated from the Taiyuan Women's Division and was admitted to the Beijing Women's Higher Normal School. Taking this step is a test of Shi Pingmei's thinking and will. Because in the society at that time, the average person thought: "A girl, after graduating from middle school, can do it, why bother to study!" But she kept learning and struggling. With the support of her father, she went out of Shanxi to study in Beijing.
Outcome: On September 18, 1928, Shi Pingmei began to fall ill at the No. 8 apartment in Beijing's West Bolt Horse Pile, with severe headaches, but she thought that physical discomfort was a common thing, so she still went to teach at the attached middle school as usual, but her condition became worse and worse. Friends Lu Yin and others sent Shi Pingmei to the Old Punishment Department Street in Japan Yamamoto Hospital, and Lin Liru, professor and director of the Attached Middle School of Normal University, was guarded by the hospital and soon began to fall into a coma. On the 23rd, he was transferred from Yamamoto Hospital in Japan to Union Hospital and diagnosed with encephalitis. On September 30, Shi Pingmei died at Peking Union Medical College Hospital.
Lin Huiyin (June 10, 1904 – April 1, 1955) was a famous Chinese architect, poet, writer, and husband, Liang Sicheng. "You are the April Day on Earth", "Lotus Lantern", "Ninety-Nine Degrees" and so on. Among them, "You Are the April Day on Earth" is the most well-known to the public and widely recited.
Born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, his ancestral home is Fuzhou, Fujian. Lin Huiyin studied architecture, was the first female architect in China, and in addition to building science research, she also engaged in literary creation. In April 1931, her first poem, "Who Loves This Endless Change," was published in the second issue of poetry under the pseudonym "Huiyin". In the following years, he published dozens of works in "Poetry Journal", "New Moon", "Beidou", Tianjin "Ta Kung Pao", "Literary Magazine" and so on. Most of them are poetry, but there are also prose, novels, plays, and literary reviews. Most of her poems explore the philosophy of life and love based on the ups and downs and waves of personal emotions. The poems are euphemistic and soft, rhythmical and natural, and are appreciated by the literary circles and the vast number of readers, which established her status as a poet and was praised by Hu Shi as "a talented woman of China's generation".
Ending: Lin Hui's life is quite bumpy, but he and Liang Sicheng support each other and travel together. At the age of 51 in 1955, he died at 6:20 a.m. on April 1, 20195 in Tongren Hospital.
Lu Xiaoman (November 7, 1903 – April 3, 1965) was a modern female painter. Because of his marriage with Xu Zhimo, he became a famous modern figure.
Modern female painter, a native of Wujin, Jiangsu, was born in Kongjia Lane, Shanghai. When he was a student, Lu Xiaoman was not only talented, but also beautiful and full of buds, and his charm was first revealed. She has the intelligence and liveliness of a Shanghai girl, and the beauty and dignity of a Beijing girl. At school, everyone called her "Queen." He married Wang Geng in 1922 and divorced in 1925. In 1926, he married Xu Zhimo. After Xu Zhimo's death in 1931, he straightened his clothes and looked up, and the skirt of the thorny cloth was plain in the sky, washed away the lead, and quit smoking and painting.
Outcome: Died on April 3, 1965 at Huadong Hospital in Shanghai at the age of 63.
Zhang Chonghe (1914 – June 18, 2015) Was one of the four sisters of Hefei and was known as the "last talented woman" of the Republic of China.
She was the great-granddaughter of Zhang Shusheng, the chief general of the Huai Army and the governor of Liangguang, and the fourth daughter of zhang Wuling, an educator in Suzhou. Under the influence of their father, the four sisters are all blue-hearted and talented, and the male number is the most harmonious.
Her achievements in calligraphy, Kunqu opera and poetry were taught at Peking University as early as the 1930s, and she was well-known. Her calligraphy is prepared in all aspects, a small kai of Juan Xiu duan condensation, the knot body is deep, the bone strength is deep, especially the world's attention, known as "the first person of contemporary Xiao Kai". In various published Kunqu catalogues, her name is associated with the names of masters such as Yu Zhenfei and Mei Lanfang. In 1943, a Kunqu opera "Dream of Visiting the Garden" that appeared on stage in Chongqing was a sensation in the Xingtan Wenyuan in the rear area, and Zhang Shizhao, Shen Yinmo and others sang poems and sang harmony, which became a cultural event during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. In November 1948, Zhang Chonghe, then a 34-year-old "elderly young woman", married Qin Jin with Han Sixi, and in January of the following year, both went to the United States to settle down.
Ending: After Zhang Chonghe went to the United States with his husband Jun in 1949, for more than 50 years, he taught at more than 20 universities such as Harvard and Yale, teaching calligraphy and Kunqu opera, and quietly cultivated his life to promote traditional Chinese culture. In the early morning of June 18, 2015, Zhang Chonghe died in the United States at the age of 102.
Bing Xin (October 5, 1900 – February 28, 1999) was a great poet, writer, translator, and children's writer of modern times. He is the author of "Superman", the poetry collection "Spring Water", "Stars", the prose collection "Send a Little Reader", "Resend a Little Reader", "Three Send a Little Reader", "Little Orange Lantern"... Et al., advocating the philosophy of love, one of the "Eight Greats of Contemporary Prose".
Xie Wanying, formerly known as Xie Wanying, was born in Hengling Village, Changle City, Fuzhou, Fujian Province, and graduated from Yenching University and Wellesley Women's University in the United States. Bingxin is a famous Chinese poet, writer, translator and children's writer, whose pen name is taken from "A Piece of Ice Heart in a Jade Kettle"; his main works are "Stars and Spring Water", "Resending Little Readers", "Little Orange Lantern", "Evening QingJi", etc., known as "The Old Man of the Century" and "Grandmother of the Literary World". In 1923, he successively published correspondence essays with the general title of "Sending Little Readers", which became the foundation of Chinese children's literature.
Ending: After liberation, Bing Xin successively served as an editorial board member of People's Literature, a director of the Chinese Writers Association, and a vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles. At 21:12 on February 28, 1999, Bingxin died in Beijing Hospital at the age of 99.
Ding Ling (12 October 1904 – 4 March 1986) was a modern female writer and essayist. He is the author of "In the Dark", "The Diary of Madam Shafi", "The Sun Shines on the Sangan River"... wait.
His original names were Jiang Bingzhi and Ding Bingzhi, and his pen names were Binzhi and Conghuo. Hunan Linli people. When I was in Changsha and other places, I was influenced by the "May Fourth" trend. In 1923, he entered the department of Chinese of Shanghai University founded by the Communist Party. In 1927, he published the novel "The Diary of Lady Shafi" and other works, which caused a warm response in the literary world. In 1930, he joined the Chinese Left-Wing Writers' Union, and later became the editor-in-chief of Beidou, an organ of the Left League, and the secretary of the Left League. During this period, she created works such as "Water" and "Mother", which showed the actual achievements of left-wing revolutionary literature, and was kidnapped by Kuomintang agents in 1933, and then fled Nanjing for Bao'an County, northern Shaanxi, where the CPC Central Committee is located. In northern Shaanxi, he successively served as the head of the Northwest Field Service Corps and the editor-in-chief of the literary and art supplement of Liberation Daily, and successively created outstanding literary works in the Liberated Areas, such as "A Bullet That Has Not Been Loaded", "Night", "When I Was in Xia Village", and "When I was in the Hospital". In 1948, he wrote a long novel, "The Sun Shines on the Sangan River", which has been translated into many foreign languages.
Ending: In 1955 and 1957, Ding Ling was brutally persecuted by the extremely "left" line twice, misclassified as an "anti-party clique" and a rightist, and sent to work for 12 years in the Reclamation District of Heilongjiang (now Yuyuan Farm), and imprisoned for 5 years during the Cultural Revolution. After smashing the "Gang of Four", Ding Ling's unjust case was gradually rehabilitated. In 1984, the Organization Department of the Central Committee issued the "Circular on Restoring Comrade Ding Ling's Reputation", which completely overturned all the false words imposed on her over the years and affirmed that she was "a Communist Party member who is loyal to the Party and the revolution". In her later years, Ding Ling diligently wrote 1 million words of works such as "The World of Rays" and "The Wind and Snow In the World", despite her frailty and illness, founded and edited the "China" literary magazine, and enthusiastically cultivated young writers. In 1986, Ding Ling died at her home in Dofu Lane, Beijing.
Some people said: "Compared with Lin Huiyin's demure, Zhang Ailing's cold arrogance, Lu Xiaoman's style, Xiao Hong's misery, Xie Wanying's tranquility, Ding Ling's complexity, and Yang Dai's fame and characteristics, in fact, it has never been too dazzling." "But compared with these talented women, Yang Dai is definitely the happiest in life and the most clear in life."