| First Name： | 张乃莹 | ||||||||||
| Birth Place： | 黑龙江省呼兰县 | ||||||||||
| Death Place： | 香港 | ||||||||||
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萧红Xiao Hong (June 2, 1911 -1942 on January 22), formerly known as Zhang Naiying, pen name Xiao Hong, Cho Yin, 1911 Dragon Boat Festival was born in Hulan County, Heilongjiang Province, a landlord family, young mother died. 1927 East Province, in particular studying in Harbin Municipal First Girls High School, contact the progress since May Fourth thinking and foreign literature. Particular, by Lu Xun, Mao Dun and works of American author Sinclair.
Life
1930, from Harbin Province in the First Girls High School Special Administrative Region (junior high) school, as fleeing forced marriages and her boyfriend (with Wang Hall A, Lu Yu and other cases that the dispute) away from Peking into Beijing Normal University High School girls high school first grade. Due to lack of money back after Harbin, sixteen in the road outside the Zhengyang Shun Dongxing Thistle Hotel (now the west side of the gray Jingyu Street Ma Kewei commercial small building, now a small museum) cohabitation.
Xiao Jun in 1933 and published his first work at their own expense Collection "journey" and therefore boarded the Manchukuo government blacklist, was forced to leave Harbin.
July 1936, Xiao Hong to get rid of troubled feelings and east to Japan, the Tokyo District Ju-cho-chome, Fujimi-machi Fifth Estate, the September review, and wrote the essay "The Lonely Life", a long cycle, "sand" collection of short stories "on the ox cart," and so on. January 1937 return, April has to go alone to Beijing, but soon Fanhu. September two of the same to Wuhan. Xiao Hong housed in Xi'an in 1938, "Northwest AFS" when the Xiao Jun and broke up six years of cohabitation, in May and married in Wuhan liang. September to avoid fighting and to Chongqing.
January 1940, Hong and liang arrived from Chongqing, Hong Kong, with the first stranger, Kimberley Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Knutsford Terrace, in early 1941 to live in crowded huts 8 Lock Road. Here she wrote the memories of the most successful novel "The Biography" and "Mobley" and a series of short memories, such as in the home of "Little Town" and so on. July admitted to Queen Mary Hospital, was discharged by the end of November.
December 8, 1941, the Japanese began to attack from Shenzhen to Hong Kong on December 25 the same year, Hong Kong fall. From 7 December until 22 January from the death of Xiao Hong was removed after evacuation due to illness, and ten of them in Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital, Happy Valley, was misdiagnosed as tracheal tumor during the surgery. The situation after the more evil. At 11:00 on January 22, 1942, Xiao Hong died at a Hong Kong run by a French missionary temporary medical station (from St. Stephen's Girls rush to change), the age of 31 years. Liang Luo Binji recalled until January 12 after Hong Kong's stability there, only he had been accompanied by Xiao Hong; but liang denies. January 24 ashes in the crematorium, Happy Valley, Japan, January 25 evening, half buried in Hong Kong Repulse Bay, Hong Kong real estate development for the 1950s, the cemetery had been damaged and part of the re-interment of ashes in Guangzhou Galaxy Cemetery; the other half were liang privately buried in Mid-Levels, Hong Kong St. Stephen's Girls Secondary School (ie where the death of the medical station) campus small slope, 80 Lu Wei-liang luang commissioned to help to find, but until then underwent a renovation Xiao-Po the ashes are still missing.
Dai wrote the poet, "Xiao Hong tomb River mouth accounts":
Take six hours long and lonely
Side of your head and put a bunch of Camellia
I waited a long night
You are lying to listen to the gossip Haitao
Evaluation
Admits is not a literary critic CT Hsia, "History of Modern Chinese Fiction," commented the works of Xiao Hong, is "the most inexcusable negligence"; Hsia that "" The Biography "strengths is its high degree of realism." and to give "The Biography" high marks, calling her the twentieth century one of the best writers in China.
Reference
* The works of 'Biography' extracts in the Dragon version of the second volume of high-school literature curriculum.
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