The Cause of Crying and Laughing·part One (zhang Henshui's Classic Romance)
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"The Cause of Laughter" mainly describes the love tragedy between Fan Jiashu, a Jiangnan college student living in Peiping, and Shen Fengxi, a girl who sings drums in Tianqiao. It also intersperses the story of the noble lady He Lina's unremitting pursuit of Fan Jiashu, the secret love of Guan Shoufeng's daughter Xiugu who makes a living for Fan Jiashu, the warlord Liu Dezhu's dominance of civilian girls, and the heroic and righteous Guan father and daughter hoeing the strong and supporting the weak. It reflects the dark and turbulent social aspect of the Beiyang warlord period. It not only caused a strong response among old readers of the old school chapter novels; it also surprised the new literary and art circles at that time, and even discussed why "The Cause of Laughter" has such great charm and how widespread it is. Zhang Henshui (May 18, 1895 - February 18, 1967), whose original name is Xinyuan, and Henshui is his pen, takes the meaning of the poem "Meeting Happily" by Li Yu of the Southern Tang Dynasty, "Since life grows, I hate water and grow eastward". Zhang Henshui is a famous chapter novelist and a representative writer of the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School. He is honored as the first "master of chapter novels" and "master of popular literature" in the history of modern literature. The plot of the work is tortuous and complex, and the structure is rigorous and complete. It integrates traditional Chinese chapter novels with new techniques in Western novels. He is also famous for his prolific output. In his fifty-year writing career, he created more than 100 popular novels, most of which are medium and long chapter novels with a total of 30 million words, which can be regarded as a book in his lifetime.
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