Mr. Jia Zuzhang is a famous biological science writer. As early as 1930s, he was one of the pioneers of China's scientific sketches, and has been creating for more than 60 years. His works vividly spread scientific knowledge based on biology in colorful literary forms, and realized the marriage of science and literature. His popular science works have played a subtle role in popularizing scientific knowledge, inspiring people's patriotic enthusiasm and enhancing national self-esteem, self-confidence and cohesion. He takes colorful nature as the object of description, and combines rich scientific knowledge, historical knowledge and literary knowledge. It depicts all kinds of interesting stories in the wonderful biological world to readers with vivid and unique scientific prose style.
Jia Zuzhang spent his youth in the Qing Dynasty, witnessed and experienced the sufferings of ordinary people, and deeply felt that the people's wisdom could not be separated and the country was backward, all of which were caused by political corruption and poor science. So after he graduated from Zhejiang No.1 Normal School, he began to create popular science at the age of 22 and published his first popular science book at the age of 28. From the publication of Birds and Literature by 193 1 to the publication of Flowers and Literature before his death, Mr. Jia Zuzhang created and translated works of nearly 3 million words in 60 years. His works always integrate science and art, and many chapters become excellent essays, which have a far-reaching impact on society. It can be said that there are few scholars in China who have not studied Jia Zuzhang's works. His "Labor Created Man" is one of the required books for cadres to learn the history of social development in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. His Why Flowers Are So Red, Litchi Dan in Zhou Nan in June, Orchids and Orchids, Cicada, etc. have all been selected into junior and senior high school textbooks.
1934, Taibai magazine opened a column of "scientific sketch", and Jia Zuzhang, Zhou, Gu and others wrote articles for this column. At the same time, a variety of teaching materials of zoology and botany have been compiled for Ming Kai Bookstore, which has done a lot of pioneering work for popular science work in China. That is, from then on, he embarked on the arduous road of popular science creation, editing and translation. His life's works include Bird Studies, Birds and Literature, Biological Sketch, Heart of a Child, Resilience of Life, Biological Fragments, Flowers and Literature, Selected Works of Jia Zuzhang's Popular Science Creation, Selected Works of Jia Zuzhang's Popular Science, and 26 popular science books. He also wrote Biology of Enlightened High School. He struggled all his life and contributed a lot of scientific, national and popular popular science works to the people. At the same time, Jia Zuzhang is a famous publisher. He compiled 65,438+00 textbooks on nature, animals, plants, biology and natural history for primary and secondary schools, which inspired several generations of students. Periodicals were edited from 1936, among which the famous periodicals are Middle School Students, Progressive Youth, Traveler, Rural Youth, Knowledge is Power, Popularization of Science, Learning Science, etc. This is also an important part of his commitment to popular science.
Life practice is the foundation and source of Jia Zuzhang's writing. The scientific sketches written by Jia Zuzhang describe flowers, birds, fish and insects, and outline the magnificent and colorful biological world with their unique and in-depth observation, delicate and accurate brushwork and concise language. Jia Zuzhang loved books all his life. He read, edited and wrote books, and spent his life with books. After years of editing work, he tirelessly read books on biology, literature and history, from which he learned nutrition, accumulated knowledge, expanded his thinking, and explored and enriched writing materials.
Many of his works involve man and nature, ecological environment, advocating science, getting rid of pseudoscience, superstition and heresy and many other aspects. Criticize "Silkworm eggs turn into goldfish" and "rotten grass turns into fireflies" in Goldfish and Fireflies; By analyzing the relationship between the omnivore of sparrows and crops, the scientific and realistic spirit embodied in Bird's Eye still has practical significance and beneficial enlightenment for protecting the ecological environment and wildlife today.
193 1 Mr. Jia Zuzhang's Birds and Literature combines the scientific knowledge of birds (including morphology, habits, species, etc. ) and related literary content (including historical poems, myths, folklore, etc. In the author's words, this is an "attempt" to write a science book with more interesting words. Nature, which published these articles at that time, created a column called "Interesting Science". And revealed the name of the new style of "scientific sketch" for the first time. Therefore, both birds and literary and biological sketches are the early achievements of China's "scientific sketch" school. Now it seems that this series of works by Mr. Jia Zuzhang. In the history of China's popular science creation, it is indeed of fundamental and groundbreaking significance. Today, thousands of middle school students in Qian Qian can still read such exquisite masterpieces as Why Flowers Are So Red and Litchi Dan in June in Zhou Nan from textbooks. His two books, Birds and Literature and Flowers and Literature, should be China's scientific sketches of Shuang Bao. It not only reflects the creative process of Jia Lao's life, but also reflects the development track of China's popular science creation from one side.
Jia Zuzhang's popular science writing can be roughly divided into three periods: First, from the 1920s to the 1940s, he wrote a lot of energetic works. Birds and Literature, Biological Sketch and Loyal Soul are the representative works of this period. Second, I wrote some essays before the founding of New China and the "Cultural Revolution". Such as "Evening Banquet with Autumn Chrysanthemum", "White Silk Feather with Dansha Top" and "Like a crab but not a crab". 3. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party, Jia Zuzhang was over eighty years old; Bathed in the sunshine and rain of spring, I once again rejuvenated my creative youth and wrote many works. "Why Flowers Are So Red" won the first prize of the National New Long March Popular Science Creation, and was selected as a model textbook for senior high schools and technical secondary schools together with "Zhou Nan June Litchi Dan", "Cicada" and "Lan Lan".
After ten years of turmoil, Jia Zuzhang was in a helpless mood at this time, but he didn't want to waste time. He went alone to the paddy fields, vegetable gardens and orchards in the wild to observe the dynamics of plant growth, insect activities and bird reproduction. At the same time, I also read many books on science and technology and agricultural technology that I could find at that time. During the six years from 1970 to 1976, I wrote 50 reading notes. The practice and reading during this period have accumulated a lot of materials for the popular science creation after the arrival of the scientific spring, and won the first prize of "New Long March Popular Science Creation", and some famous works such as "Litchi Dan in June in Zhou Nan", "Lan Lan" and "Cicada" were published.
When Fujian Health News was first reissued, it was a four-page tabloid. Jia Lao, vice chairman of China Popular Science Creation Association, chairman of Fujian Popular Science Creation Association and consultant of Fujian Science and Technology Association, is very concerned about the growth of this newspaper. He not only often reads this newspaper and puts forward many valuable opinions and suggestions, but also writes popular science articles himself. More than ten articles have been published in the popular science section of this newspaper, such as how to plant trees, cockroaches from the age of dinosaurs to the present, physiological changes of young people, attention to mental health, talking about tuberculosis from colds, and diseases from mouth to mouth. , add a lot of color to this newspaper, the editors are rigorous and realistic, hard-working and left a deep impression.
Last name: Zhang? Vibration? Magnificent
Height: 184? centimetre
Weight: 65? kilogram
Date of birth: June 5.