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The beauty of Shen Xingren is universally acknowledged, and the famous Lin also marveled at Shen's elegant manners and charming appearance. Even Jin, who has a lifelong crush on Lin, didn't write poetry when he first met Shen Xingren. He also presented a Tibetan poem by Shen Xingren: Sex is like a bamboo shadow separated from China and Japan, and benevolence is like a cool breeze. Laojin described the beauty of Shen Xingren with swaying bamboo shadows and the fragrance of orchids, which was really fascinating.

Writer Zhu Ziqing saw her on the boat and wrote, "I saw a woman on the boat. The face is very beautiful, wearing meat stockings, and the flesh color is visible. The waist is thin and there are weak willows in the wind. "

But unlike Lin Weiyin and Lu Xiaoman, Shen Xingren did not have an unforgettable love story. She married a husband who respected her early and had a happy family. With her own knowledge and strength, she liberated the female thoughts in the patriarchal society at that time, and also promoted the vernacular movement of China literature through her own works, which was deeply influenced by her.

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From 65438 to 0895, Shen Xingren was born in Shenjia, Jiaxing, Zhejiang. Of the three sisters, Shen Shi ranks second, most beautiful and most talented.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, there was an upsurge of studying abroad. With the support of his father, Shen Xingren went to Japan to study. Later, because his father Shen Bingjun was seriously ill, he returned to China, and then he entered Beijing Women's Normal University to study. I met Tao, a professor in Peking University at school, and they hit it off immediately. They finally got married on 19 17 and gave birth to their eldest daughter Tao, nicknamed Xiao Fang.

After Shen Xingren got married, he discovered that Tang Tang, a professor at Peking University, couldn't even afford a house, and later became a "house slave" with debts!

At that time, due to work reasons, Tao took a fancy to a house in Xiaosan Hutong, Beixinqiao. However, because the owner only sold it but didn't rent it, Shen Xingren was pregnant with his second daughter. Tao needed to support his old mother and an unmarried sister in Tianjin, so he had to borrow money to buy a house.

Although Tao is a professor in Peking University, he is a typical bookworm and doesn't know some rules. In addition, at that time, the Beiyang government cried for poverty and repeatedly defaulted on wages. Life at home was quite difficult, and sometimes even rent would become trouble. Often urged by the landlord for several days, I have to hide when I go out, and I dare to go home after dark. Shen Xingren, who has received a new education, can't adapt to this life of hiding his head and revealing his tail. She doesn't want to be a woman who only knows daily necessities and lives on a meager salary all her life. She wants to have a job, pay off her debts, support her family and realize her self-worth.

Tao Menghe respected Shen Xingren's decision. Under his influence, Shen Xingren embarked on the road of literature. First, in order to support his family, he is going to translate books and sell manuscripts. Second, I want to do something within my power.

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1965438+In September 2008, Shen Xingren was hospitalized because she gave birth to her second daughter. In the hospital, bored, Tao had no time to accompany him, so he teased her with Wilde's Mrs. Wen's Fan. Shen Xingren likes the story of this drama, especially fascinated by the female problems in the story. She believes that in today's society, men have two understandings of women, one is a good wife and a good mother, and the other is a dissolute dancer. But after reading this book, she feels that naive women are not necessarily good, and sophisticated women are not necessarily bad.

At the same time, women who are not killed by the people are used to prosperity, but they are harsh on others, while sophisticated women know adversity, but are tolerant of life. She wants to use this book to dispel the opposition between the two, establish a new concept of women, and let people face up to women's problems. At the same time, she suggested that women should also have a free and democratic marriage, love and life of self-choice. No matter what kind of life, people should not be covered with colored glasses. People are born without discrimination. Discrimination is just that society has become pedantic.

The desire to translate this book became stronger and stronger in her mind. After leaving the hospital, she translated this book day and night. Another name with oriental style is The Story of a Fan. And in the May 4th period of 19 19, the translated Heritage Fan Ji was published in New Youth, which caused a sensation. Everyone had their own discussion about whether women's liberation should return or leave. All major newspapers reported that Shen Xingren was the first scholar who proposed to emancipate women's minds.

Shen Xingren believes that women's liberation has made a good start and should continue. She wants women all over the country to understand that love, marriage and life can be antagonistic and free, not a word from parents. At the same time, Shen Xingren's thought also played a game on the feudal patriarchal society at that time.

Due to the fierce attack on the tyranny of the patriarchal society and the call to emancipate women's minds, this book once became an after-dinner reading for upper-class women. Later, the play was translated into Fan of the Rich Family or Fan of Mrs. Windermere and put on the stage. This is one of the earliest translated scripts of foreign dramas published in China, and it is also the source of the vernacular movement in China. It is on the basis of this exploratory achievement that a magnificent and far-reaching vernacular movement and a new literature movement emerged.

Even Hu Shi, who was known as "Mr. Democracy and the Free Man God" at that time, took a fancy to the unique female thought brilliance in Shen Xing people's bones, and even wrote to his mother in his hometown, saying that he especially loved talking to well-educated women. The implication is that he took a fancy to Shen Xingren. In fact, his words are full of dissatisfaction with arranged marriages. He thinks he is a free male god admired by everyone. He loves freedom of love and marriage democracy, and even has arranged marriages. He thinks it has lost face.

But Hu Shi's mother ignored it and didn't reply. If Shen Xingren was unmarried at that time, I'm afraid Hu Shi was going to launch a fierce love strategy for Shen Xingren, and then there might be no Lu Xiaoman.

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1In the autumn of 922, Xu Zhimo returned from overseas and founded a literary salon-Crescent Society in Beiping. Xu Zhimo invited a large number of like-minded people, including social and political celebrities, who were handsome for a while and had the momentum of "talking and laughing with great scholars, but having no contact with Ding Bai". Although the status is different and the topic is different, the ultimate goal is to promote the new culture movement and the vernacular movement. Xu Zhimo also invited Shen Xingren and Tao, who were very popular at that time, to join us.

Even Jin, who loves Lin deeply but doesn't often write poems for her, met Shen Xingren, and because of Shen Shi's elegant manners, unique free thinking and the appearance of sinking fish and falling geese, she uncharacteristically wrote a love poem in the inscription for Shen Xingren:

Sex is like a bamboo shadow, and benevolence is like a calm wind.

Taking dancing bamboo shadows and quiet orchids as metaphors, the charm of "benevolence" is full of admiration and envy. As a woman, Lin is both envious and admired.

Xu Zhimo also attaches great importance to the talent of Shen Xingren. Unable to hold back, Xu Zhimo wrote a letter to Shen Xingren, in which he called Shen Xing Mrs. Tao. He did not hesitate to lower his body and praise her: "I heard that I didn't call several times, and nothing else. Congratulations on your novel, at least it's much better than mine. This is not a compliment! I watched it three or four times in a row, and I watched it when my friends came in. Everyone says it's lively and tasty. If this is really your first attempt, your novelist has a bright future! But then again, you have to write an article for my supplement, and the shipment is limited to one week. " In the last paragraph of the letter, Xu Zhimo jokingly "threatened" Shen Xingren to help him write an article. Like a whisper between girlfriends.

1925, Shen Xingren went to Xu Zhimo's house to hand in the manuscript, and unexpectedly found that Xu Zhimo had translated half of Mary Mary. After reading it, he liked his story very much. He asked and found that Xu Zhimo was unwilling to translate the second half, so Shen Xingren said that she would translate the second half.

Another reason why Shen Xingren likes this book is the explanation of whether there can be love between positions. This book tells the first love story of Mary, a little girl from an Irish maid family. Mary fell in love with a commander. Her poor family and humble position make her contradictory in all aspects, but she can't restrain her desire for love. When the policeman boldly proposed marriage, Mary timidly refused.

The translated works have aroused widespread concern in the cultural circles. Although it was unintentional, it also left a wonderful flower for the history of modern literature.

Although Shen Xingren doesn't love many places, she is not afraid of life when she gets along with comfortable people. In addition to writing, the rest of the time in the crescent society. Jin said that people don't love him as much, but when three or five friends get together to discuss literature, the whole person will feel refreshed and regret that it got dark so fast that he couldn't enjoy himself. Besides Ailin, Jin and Shen Xingren are also very close. The model of the new generation of women in her works is Shen Xingren, who says she is independent and charming, and regards her as a confidante.

193 1 year, Xu zhimo was killed in an air crash. After Xu Zhimo was killed, several wives got together at Ling Shuhua's house. Mrs. Zhang Xiruo said with tears: "How can this group be without him!" Tao's wife, Shen Xingren, said sadly, "This is all arranged by nature!"

Shen Xingren really doesn't want to believe that Xu Zhimo has passed away. She often looks through the articles left by Xu Zhimo. Seeing Feelings, she remembered that Xu Zhimo was no longer in the crescent society. She felt sad and didn't think about tea and rice. The whole person lost weight.

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1937, lugouqiao incident, the war was on the verge, the Japanese invaders trampled on the great rivers and mountains, and the intellectuals began to go into exile. Tao also went west with his family.

Sitting by boat for dozens of hours, I can only stand, my feet are like lead, and I feel very heavy. I want to sit down and have a rest. There is no place to sit. The ship was crowded with refugees, and my clothes were covered with a thick layer of grease, and the smell was extremely bad. Fortunately, it is winter now. If it is in hot summer, I am afraid it will kill me.

The sanitary conditions on the ship are extremely poor. Flies and mosquitoes came at me. They are not afraid of people at all, so they come for you. Occasionally, they want to open their mouths and have to prevent flies from flying into their mouths and swallowing them with a grunt. Not long after they stayed in Guilin, they moved to Kunming and soon moved to Lizhuang, Nanxi, Sichuan.

Although she is a woman, her anti-Japanese patriotic enthusiasm is still high. Along the way, I joined the Red Cross to take care of the injured soldiers. Long-term drift from place to place, inhaling a lot of soot with high sulfur content, Shen Xingren also suffered from severe tuberculosis and was bedridden several times. Tao tried his best to treat him, but in view of the current situation of lack of medical care and medicine, Tao himself and even the senior medical professor of Tongji University were deeply helpless and could only watch this beautiful and quiet lady lose weight day by day.

Knowing that Shen Xingren was seriously ill, Liang Sicheng wrote a letter, referring to the medicine Lin gave Shen Xingren and telling Tao how to take it. "Put a teaspoon in a deep and high pitcher, which is full of boiled water. Cover your head with a cloth and inhale the steam deeply, which will make your throat feel better. " I also drew a picture to tell the shape of the clay pot.

Under the careful care of Tao, Shen Xingren's lung disease was temporarily relieved.

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1942 autumn, in order to develop Lanzhou, people also need to retreat together. In Tao's view, the air in the northwest is much fresher than that in Lizhuang, which is beneficial to patients with lung disease. In addition, the medical conditions in Lanzhou city are unmatched by Li Zhuang, so Tao entrusted Shen Xingren to take their car to Lanzhou for treatment.

After Shen Xingren came to Lanzhou, he was admitted to Xiaoxihu Central Northwest Hospital with good conditions at that time under the settlement of his brother Yi Shen. Shen Xingren, who is breathing the northwest air, has recovered more than half of his lung disease.

The little nurse in the hospital is also a person who loves literature. After reading several articles by Shen Xingren, she especially likes Shen Xingren's thought of emancipating women. She always buys some new magazines and newspapers for Shen Xingren in her spare time to relieve boredom. Occasionally, in the ward, one person also decorated two corners and played a "legacy fan" for Shen Xingren, so that Shen Xingren had fun all the time during the treatment. This made Yi Shen, as a younger brother, beaming, thinking that the disease had been cured.

Shen Xingren also wrote to her husband that he had a good time in Lanzhou and asked Tao when he would come to Lanzhou to reunite with his family.

But it didn't last long. Shen Xingren was ill for several days because of a small cold, and finally he was implicated in the recurrence of lung disease. However, Tao failed to get what he wanted because of his work. Shen Xingren finally died in Lanzhou Northwest Hospital on June194365438+1October 2 1.

Tao didn't know that Shen Xingren, who was still alive and kicking a few days ago, said that he would translate more books to emancipate women's minds and vigorously promote the new culture movement in vernacular Chinese, but he was defeated by a slight cold. Tao Menghe has been unwilling to believe the facts of this matter.

Jin, who was far away in The National SouthWest Associated University, Kunming, received the news of Shen Xingren's death. He described himself as if he had come down from a very high building by an express elevator, and suddenly it was dark. Because, eight days ago, Shen Xingren personally wrote him a letter. Jin said that Shen Xingren is "a Buddhist living a Confucian life" ... She is a truly elegant, indifferent and boundless goddess on earth, afraid to enter the mountains and leave the city. "

Tao, who sympathized with Shen Xingren, did not write down the words of missing his wife like Jin, but stayed in Lizhuang and lived a lonely life.

In summer, he wears a big straw hat and grey shorts, and walks back and forth between the town and Menguantian.

In his spare time, Tao often sits on a stone bench in the hospital and reads articles written by Shen Xingren. When he is excited, he can't help shivering. Then he could see tears on the page, which soaked the words in the book and his thoughts in the Shen Xing world.

I turned my head and looked back at the empty study, as if Shen Xingren was sitting by the window, pen in hand, looking at him affectionately and smiling.

-Shen Xingren translated 17 works before his death, including 9 plays, 3 novels, 1 prose poems and 4 non-literary works. It played an important role in the vernacular movement in China and the emancipation of women's minds.