Lin Yutang (1895- 1976) was born in a Christian family in Fujian, and his father was a church pastor. 19 12 Lin Yutang entered Shanghai St. John's University and taught in Tsinghua University after graduation. 19 19 autumn, went to the Department of Literature of Harvard University in the United States, and 1922 received a master's degree in literature. In the same year, he transferred to Leipzig University in Germany to study linguistics. From 65438 to 0923, he returned to China as Professor Peking University, Dean of Beijing Women's Normal University and Head of the English Department. 1924, he was one of the main authors of Yusi, and published the first article on the relationship between morale and ideological circles in Yusi. 65438-0926, went to Xiamen University as the dean of literature, writing essays and learning languages. 1927 secretary of the Ministry of foreign affairs. 1932 edited by the Analects of Confucius. 1934 founded "Human World" and published "Wild Collection". 1935 founded Cosmic Wind and advocated "self-centered, leisure-oriented" essays, which became the main figures of the critics. After 1935, Lin Yutang wrote cultural works and novels in English, such as My Country and My People, The Trembling Wind, Confucius' Wisdom and the Art of Life, and wrote Smoke in Beijing in France.

Liang Shiqiu (1903.1.6-1987.11.3), formerly known as Simon Leung, Liang Qiushi, pen names Zijia, Qiulang, Chengshu, etc. Born in Hangzhou County, Zhejiang Province (now Yuhang). China is a famous theoretical critic, writer, British literary historian and literary translator in the history of modern literature.

Party member, a member of the National Socialist Party, denied the class nature of literature. In his early days, Liang Shiqiu focused on literary criticism, insisting on describing and expressing abstract and eternal human nature as a literary and artistic view, criticizing Lu Xun's "hard translation" of foreign works, disagreeing with Lu Xun's translation of Soviet Russia's "literary policy", advocating "literature without class", not advocating literature as a political tool, opposing ideological unity and demanding freedom of thought. During this period, there were constant pen battles with Lu Xun and other left-wing writers. Liang Shiqiu was once denounced by Mr. Lu Xun as a "running dog of the capitalist who lost his family", and Mao Zedong once regarded him as a "representative figure serving bourgeois literature". From 1927 to 1936, the debate lasted for eight years. 1936 10 19 in June, Mr. Lu Xun died unfortunately, and the confrontational debate naturally ended. However, the impact of this debate is profound and far-reaching. It did not end with the end of the debate between Lu and Liang. The essence of the controversy has gone beyond Lvliang itself, and the nature of the controversy has also gone beyond the scope of literature, and the aftermath has spread to later years, even today. During the Anti-Japanese War, the debate that happened in Chongqing "has nothing to do with the Anti-Japanese War" cannot be said to have a direct relationship with this debate, but it cannot be denied that there is a subtle relationship between the two.