There are also achievements in Sanskrit and religion. 19 17 was admitted to Peking University College of Literature, and 1926 graduated and stayed as a teacher. During this period, he co-sponsored the New Society magazine with Qu Qiubai and Zheng Zhenduo, and actively promoted the revolution. "
Engaged in literary activities before and after the May 4th Movement, and then transferred to Mansfield College of Oxford University to study religion, Indian philosophy, Sanskrit and so on. 1935 was hired as the director professor of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Hong Kong, and his family moved to Hong Kong. During his stay in Hong Kong, he also served as the chairman of the Sino-British Cultural Association in Hong Kong. There are many works in his life, including Flowers and Peanuts.
Most of Xu Dishan's literary works in his life are set in Fujian, Taiwan Province, Guangdong, Southeast Asia and India. His main works include Dangerous Nest, A Rain in an Empty Mountain, History of Taoism, Lust Collection and Indian Literature. There are translated articles and books related to Indian literature, such as Twenty Nights, Sunrise, Bangladeshi Folk Tales, etc.
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Some representative works:
1. The essay "Falling Watson" is the work of Xu Dishan, a modern writer in China. This is a narrative, centering on "planting peanuts-harvesting peanuts-eating peanuts-talking about peanuts", which truly records the author's family activities and education when he was a child.
This essay describes a scene of a family harvesting peanuts. By talking about the benefits of peanuts and using things to describe people, it reveals peanut's undeserved and silent dedication. It shows that people should be useful, not just decent people who are not good to others, and expresses the author's life ideals and values that are not for fame and fortune but for the benefit of society.
2. This book contains 13 articles serialized in Ta Kung Pao one year before Xu Dishan's death, covering three fields: religion, cultural relics and Chinese. The religious part mainly discusses Confucianism, the relationship between Confucianism and Confucianism; The relationship between medicine and Taoism; Religious attitudes towards women and other issues. The part of cultural relics includes textual research on artifacts and systems, comments on etiquette and customs, and accounts of archaeological work in Hong Kong.
In the Chinese part, apart from the article "quintessence of Chinese culture and Chinese studies", the main discussion is the reform of Chinese characters. "quintessence of Chinese culture" puts forward the author's definition of "quintessence of Chinese culture" and probes into the value and direction of China culture.
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