Shen Congwen (1902- 1988), formerly known as Shen Yuehuan, is a native of Fenghuang County, Hunan Province, Han nationality, but has some Miao descent. Modern famous writer, cultural relic researcher, representative figure of Beijing School novels, pen names Hugh Yun Yun, Chen Jia, Shangguanbi and Xuanruo. At the age of 65,438+04, he joined the team and roamed the border areas of Hunan, Sichuan and Guizhou. /kloc-started literary creation in 0/924, and went to teach at the National The National SouthWest Associated University after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War. 1946 returned to teach at Peking University. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he worked in the Museum of Chinese History and the Institute of History of China Academy of Social Sciences, mainly engaged in the study of ancient Chinese costumes./kloc-0 died in Beijing in 1988.

Shen Congwen/Kloc-joined the army after graduating from high school at the age of 0/4. He hates the darkness of the world. After being exposed to new literature, 1923 went to Beijing, but failed to enter the university. Embarrassed, he began to write under the pseudonym "Hugh Yun Yun". From 1930s, he began to construct his own "Xiangxi World" with novels, and completed a series of representative works such as Border Town and Long River. He examined the present situation of urban-rural confrontation at that time from the subjective perspective of "countryman" and criticized the ugliness of modern civilization in the process of entering China. This concept, which is contrary to the masters of new literature, greatly enriches the expression range of modern novels.

There are more than 80 books created by Shen Congwen in his life, which is the largest number of books among modern writers. Early novels include Oranges, After Rain and Others, Witch's Love and so on. The basic theme has been seen, but the urban and rural clues are still unclear, the description of gender relations is shallow, and the purity of literature is poor. After 1930s, his works were very mature, including Dragon Ball, Hotels and Others, Zhou Shi, Tiger Boy, Black Mini-Story, Scenery under the Moon, Eight Horses, Collection of Rukun, Selection of New and Old Literary Novels, Collection of Housewives and Spring Lantern. Shen Congwen is known as the "father of local literature" in China literary world for his unique writing style.

From works to theory, Shen Congwen later completed his series of Xiangxi, The Beauty of Rural Life Form, The Synthesis of Critical Structure and Its counterpart-Urban Life Form, and put forward his philosophy of "harmonious coexistence" between man and nature, based on nature and returning to nature. The healthy and perfect human nature represented by "Xiangxi", a "beautiful, healthy and natural life form that does not contradict human nature", is exactly the content of all his creations.