"Dear comrades: In order to prosper the creation of novels, I donated my remuneration of 250,000 yuan to Chinese Writers Association to set up a literary and artistic bonus fund to reward the best novels every year. I know I will not be able to afford the illness. I sincerely wish our country's socialist literary cause prosperity."
Two weeks later, his life will be frozen in the spring of 1981 forever. Since then, this literary and artistic fund has been known as the four major literary awards in China, along with the Lao She Literature Award, , Cao Yu Drama Literature Award, and Lu Xun Literature Award; it has built the highest palace of traditional Chinese literature in the Chinese literary world. At this moment, as you think in your heart, this is Mao Dun Literature Award . Famous novels such as " Bailuyuan ", "Ordinary World", " Human World ", "Zhang Juzheng", "Furong Town", and "Moslin's Funeral" are all award-winning works of the Mao Dun Literature Award. The protagonist we are going to talk about today is Mao Dun .
Exam marks are coming again! And it is said that it is a must-have knowledge point for the civil service examination , and you cannot miss a single word! Mao Dun (July 4, 1896 - March 27, 1981), whose original name was Shen Dehong , his pen name was Mao Dun, Lang Shuan, Xuanzhu , Fangbi , Zhi Jing, Pu Lao, Weiming , Shen Zhongfang , Shen Mingfu , etc., whose courtesy name was Yanbing, was from Wuzhen, Tongxiang City, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province. A famous modern Chinese writer, literary critic, cultural activist, pioneer of the new cultural movement and one of the founders of the Chinese revolutionary literature and art. His representative works include the novel "Midnight", "Spring Silkworm" and the literary review "Night Reading Olympiad". When he was just liberated in 1949, Mao Dun was repeatedly invited by Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai to serve as the first Minister of Culture of New China.
No. 13, Houyuanensi Hutong, Jiaodaokou South Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing, is Mao Dun’s former residence . Wuzhen is the place where Mr. Mao Dun was born and raised, and there is also a Mao Dun Memorial Hall there. The former residence in Beijing covers an area of 878 square meters and belongs to the "second-entry" courtyard. Deng Yingchao wrote the words "Mao Dun's Former Residence" with a golden marble horizontal plaque. There are three northern rooms in the front yard, three east and west wing rooms, and six down-seater rooms. The so-called "second entry" means that from the front yard to the back yard, you need to enter through a small blue brick aisle made of a small aisle from the northeast corner of the front yard.
Compared with the backyard, the front yard has a south house, a north house, a west house and an east house, which is covered with everything and is a standard courtyard. There is a square grape trellis in the front half of the yard. Mao Dun installed a swing on the grape trellis and often played with his granddaughter here. After the "Cultural Revolution", it was not until 1976 that Mao Dun decided to write his last work - the memoir "The Road I Walked". The old man wrote: "I know there is not much in the future. Everything you see, hear, and experience will be like a broken video for a while, and it will be presented to my mind. I feel mixed emotions and bored." Such a mood is actually not just Mr. Mao. Anyone in his twenties will have such helpless acceptance of his fate, or regretful satisfaction. Don’t forget that even on the dying occasion, Mao Dun donated 250,000 yuan in a heavy "huge capital" to encourage literary creation in New China.
Let's share a few famous quotes from the works that have won the Mao Dun Literature Award:
"There are many things in the world, although you can see clearly, you cannot say them. Some things must be said after seeing them and identifying them, and some things cannot be said until death. Those who can grasp what things must be said and what things cannot be said are real men." - Chen Zhongshi "White Deer Plain"
"Life cannot wait for others." - Chen Zhongshi "White Deer Plain"
"Life cannot wait for others." - Chen Zhongshi "White Deer Plain"
"Life cannot wait for others." - Let’s make arrangements and strive for and struggle by yourself. No matter whether the result is joy or sorrow, it is comforting that you will live a life in this world in vain. "— Lu Yao "Ordinary World"
"The purpose of reading is not to achieve great achievements, but to give you an inner strength when you are beaten back to your original form by life and fall into the quagmire." - Liang Xiaosheng "The World"
"Everything that is ostentatious in fiction is missing in reality."— Liang Xiaosheng "The World"
Mr. Mao Dun once said: "None of our generation has ever walked a smooth road, but they have hit a wall after exploring, fall and get up again, and move forward in a roundabout way. However, each has different experiences. "Share the above famous sayings, I hope that after each of us can still love life and sing with songs after realizing the true nature of life! If you read literary works, if you experience thousands of lives; if you don't read, you can only have a life once!
So which Mao Dun won the most unforgettable Mao Dun? Please leave a message in the comment area and tell us.
