Mao Dun (1July 4, 896-198 1 March 27, 2006), formerly known as Mao Dun, pen names: Mao Dun, Lang Loss,,, Zhi Jing, Pu Lao, Wu Ming, Shen Mingfu, etc. Born in Tongxiang, Jiaxing, Zhejiang. China is a famous modern writer, literary critic, cultural activist and social activist.

Mao Dun was born in a family with novel ideas and received a new education since childhood. He was admitted to Peking University Preparatory School and worked in the Commercial Press after graduation. Since then, he has embarked on the road of reforming China's literature and art. He is a pioneer of the New Culture Movement and one of the founders of China's revolutionary literature and art.

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With its novel artistic image, Mao Dun's novels greatly enriched and expanded the gallery of modern novels in China. Looking at a series of characters in Mao Dun's novels, in addition to the original value of the image of Wu Sunfu, a national capitalist in Midnight, the richness and completeness of Mao Dun's capitalist image-building are highlighted in his works such as Frosty Leaves as Red as February Flowers and Walking to the Post.

Mao Dun's description of intellectuals and peasants pays attention to the organic unity of social psychological analysis and social historical analysis, and has made a breakthrough in the characterization of modern novel history. The female images of the times in the early trilogy Eclipse, from the comparison between "tradition" and "modernity", tap the value of the image of "new person" from the changes of the torrent of the times.

In the short story "Spring Silkworm" in 1930s, the images of old Bao Tong and Duoduo farmers not only set off the characters in the typical social background, but also created a typical peasant image with profound thoughts by the great differences in the historical connotations of the two generations' psychology and personality. These images have reached a high typicality and set a good example for the creation of revolutionary realism.

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