On December 14, 1992, the Chinese writer Sha Ting died, leaving a month's trail in Qingdao, leaving in a hurry in frustration.
Who is Satin?
Satin (1904–1992) Writer. His original name was Yang Chaoxi, a native of An County. Graduated from Sichuan Provincial First Normal School, he participated in revolutionary activities organized and led by the CPC. He was born in 1904 to a shabby feudal family in An County, Sichuan. At the age of 7, he studied at a family school. The teenager often traveled between the towns and villages of Sichuan with his uncle and was very familiar with the corruption of local warlords, landlords and gentry, and various other social forces. In 1932, he published the novel collection Routes Outside the Law. In the same year, he joined the "Left League" and continued to create. He is famous in the left-wing literary circles for a number of unique and down-to-earth works that reflect the life of townships in northwest Sichuan, such as "The Way of the Beast" and "Acting County Governor", and is praised by Lu Xun as one of the best left-wing writers. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he returned to Sichuan and taught at Chengdu Xiejin Middle School and engaged in the work of uniting and saving the dead in the literary and art circles. He has successively served as the deputy director of the Southwest Federation of Literary and Literary Circles, the deputy director of the Creative Committee of the China Writers Association, the chairman of the Sichuan Provincial Federation of Literature, the chairman of the Sichuan Branch of the Chinese Writers Association, the director of the Institute of Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the second director and the third and fourth vice chairmen of the China Writers Association, and the second to fourth members of the China Federation of Literary and Literary Circles. He is a deputy to the First to Third National People's Congress and a member of the Fifth and Sixth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. His major works include the novels "The Tale of the Sleepy Beast" and "The Return of the Hometown", the short stories "In its Fragrant Tea House", "Lao Wu", and the novella "Muyu Mountain". There is the Satin Anthology (four volumes).
Sha Ting listened to the advice of his friend and came to Qingdao without hesitation, only to live for more than a month before leaving, because it made him feel strange and dull.
Mr. Li Ming, an expert in literature and history, wrote: "In December 1934, Ai Wu and his newly married wife of 5 months set off from Shanghai and went to Jinan via Nanjing. This trip is a new drift for this frustrated writer in northern Sichuan. When fellow countryman Satin went to see him off, Ai Wu said, "Come too." To show his affirmation, Ai Wu added the word "anyway" in front of this request to Satin. After Ai Wu repeatedly wrote letters to meet him, Sha Ting finally came to Qingdao in June 1935. Before leaving, Sha Ting advanced the payment for a novel from Li Huiying, who founded the new publication, and came with his wife and son who had just walked, and looked for Ai Wu regardless of his disregard. Ai Wu helped the couple to live opposite their house. It's a second floor and downstairs the landlord works at the post office. The two families are very close, and from the upper floor of Satin, you can see the scene of Ai Wu's family. However, Qingdao's experience was unexpectedly bad for Satin. Sha Ting later recalled that in Qingdao, "I only lived for a few months, wrote a "grandfather's story", sold all the furniture, took my wife and children, and took a sea boat back to Shanghai." Because I didn't expect that Qingdao would be so strange and dull to me."
Ai Wu was naturally embarrassed, but he did not block Satin's decision. He understood that he was afraid that he would have to leave sooner or later. Selling all the furniture he had brought with him, Satin bought two tickets for the qingdao to Shanghai seaboard ship. When Ai Wu sent The Satin family on board, Sha Ting advised Ai Wu to return to Shanghai earlier. This day is the fifteenth mid-autumn festival of the lunar calendar in 1935, and a few hours later, Ai Wu and Sha Ting, one on land and the other on a boat sailing the Yellow Sea at night, look up at the desolate full moon and feel a lot of emotions.
At the end of September, Ai Wu's family finally left Qingdao and returned to Shanghai. It is said that although the two families of Ai Wu and Sha Ting have lived in Qingdao for a short time, they all have household registration. It is also recorded that Ai Wu's residence in Qingdao may have moved several times, including renting a house of a Shanghai capitalist. ”