What is the author and main content of "Evil Sea Flower"?

Brief introduction of the author of "Evil Sea Flower"

The original "Love for Freedom Begins, The Sick Man of East Asia". The person who loves freedom is called Jin Tianao (1874-1947), whose original name is Mao Ji, whose word is Song Cen, whose name is Zhuang You, and later Jin Yi, whose name is He Wang, whose pen name is Kirin, and who loves freedom, is the owner of Tian Fang Building. Jiangsu Wujiang people. 1903 participated in the patriotic association in Shanghai, advocated bourgeois revolution, and wrote the first six chapters of Evil Sea Flower at the invitation of Jiangsu Magazine, which was later revised and continued by Ceng Pu. His translations of Blood of Freedom, History of Russian Nihilistic Political Parties, Women's Bells and Thirty-three Years of Falling Flowers Dream were very influential in the late Qing Dynasty. He is the author of Tian Fang Lou's Collection of Poetry and Prose, and a novel paper on the relationship between writing love novels and the new society.

Sick man of East Asia is the pseudonym of Ceng Pu. Ceng Pu (1872- 1935) was born in Changshu, Jiangsu Province, and came from a feudal bureaucratic family. 189 1 year, he went to Beijing to associate with celebrities such as Wen, Jiang Biao and Hong Jun, and studied the geography of yuan dynasty history and Northwest China. 1892, the official of the donation is the official of the Chinese Book Sheren, who knows something about the anecdotes of the ruling and opposition parties and the gains and losses of the current politics. After the Sino-Japanese War, influenced by western capitalist ideology and culture, he went to Wentong Museum to study French. During the period of 1896, the candidate prime minister's office was attacked, which caused dissatisfaction of the Qing government. He went to Shanghai to find another way out, met Tan Sitong, Tang and others, accepted some propositions of bourgeois reformists, and devoted himself to reading and studying French literature with Chen Qitang, who was proficient in French literature. 1904 founded Xiao Shuo Lin Bookstore, 1907 founded Xiao Shuo Lin magazine, engaged in editing and publishing novels, and personally created novels and translated French literary works. It was at this time that the first twenty-five chapters of Evil Sea Flower were written. From 65438 to 0908, Ceng Pu participated in the constitutional activities organized by Zhang Jian and others in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. 1909 used to be an aide to the Governor of Liangjiang. After the Revolution of 1911, he served as a member of parliament, finance director and administrative director in Jiangsu Province. 1927 Retired from Shanghai, opened Zhenmeishan Bookstore, ran Zhenmeishan magazine, and translated and commented on a large number of French literary works, especially the works of the romantic writer Hugo. He also wrote the first autobiographical novel Love by Lu Nanzi, and began to revise and continue to write Evil Sea Flower until 1930 completed the thirty-fifth cycle. Later, due to weakness, he could not continue, and died in Changshu on 1935. Besides two novels, his works include poetry, drama, diary, translation and so on.

Main contents:

"Evil Sea Flower" is rich in content and has a long time span. How to grasp its essential characteristics as a whole? The author's explanation of his creative intention is quite enlightening to us. Ceng Yun: "The main significance of this book is to show me these 30 years, which is a great turning point for China from the old to the new. On the one hand, the passage of culture, on the other hand, the political changes, which are surprising and gratifying, are all carried out during this period. I just want to take pictures of these phenomena, close their silhouettes or visions and some related details, and shoot them on my camera, so that it can be naturally displayed scene by scene. The impression is like witnessing the panorama of major events. " From this point of view, the author tries to include the essence of 30 years' history in this novel and show its development trend. In essence, it is necessary to write "Evil Sea Flower" as a historical novel. The so-called historical novel is different from the traditional "historical romance novel" in China, that is, the popularization of history; The historical novel mentioned here is a new concept with modern significance. Its basic characteristics are: "combining surprise with truth", shaping "people who are more closely combined with social and historical destiny", expressing the essence and trend of history, and finally "elevating the novel to the position of historical philosophy" (quotation marks are Luacs's remarks). It should be said that "Evil Sea Flower" has reached such a state, and it can be called a historical novel with modern significance. This is naturally related to the author's careful study of French literature, especially the historical novels of Dumas and Hugo.

The 30-year-old historical content displayed in "Evil Sea Flower" is a history of political and cultural changes in this specific historical stage from the middle period of Tongzhi to the late Guangxu period.