"Back View · You and Me"

Author: Zhu Ziqing
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: In October 1928, Shanghai's Minning Press launched Zhu Ziqing's prose collection The Shadow of the Father, which has now been eighty years since its publication. Eighty years, how many readers have been moved by The Shadow of the Father. Because of parental love, because everyone will become a parent, and because life must face difficulties. Children is the author's observations on children after becoming a father, as well as his own feelings as a father. The collection also includes Women, which discusses women from the perspectives of literature and aesthetics, offering a unique interest. The White Man—God’s Pride explores the dignity and deep reflections of Huang, a person from a weak nation. Moonlight over the Lotus Pond is another celebrated prose piece in the literary world. The prose collection You and I, published by the Commercial Press in March 1936, includes Choosing a Spouse, a recollection of his childhood marriage; To My Deceased Wife, a tribute to his former wife; Winter, depicting past winter nights spent with his father and brothers eating "white water tofu," his friend S's moonlit boat trip on West Lake, and time spent with innocent children; as well as Looking at Flowers, Nanjing, and Tanzhe Temple and Jietai Temple, which narrate trivialities of past life. Zhu Ziqing’s prose is often about "small matters in daily life," but because he always weaves the threads of spirit to connect the past, it is written with lingering emotions and moving charm. Reading Zhu Ziqing’s prose is like drinking fine wine—often, it’s not the wine that intoxicates, but the reader who becomes lost in its beauty.