Beauty's Grace·part One (zhang Henshui's Literature Classic)
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The story of "Beauty's Grace" takes place in Beijing in the 1920s. The heroine Chang Xiaonan was born in a poor family at the bottom of the class and made a living by collecting coal cores. Once, he met the unemployed and down-and-out Hong Shiyi. He deeply sympathized with her fate and used his meager income from working as a substitute at a charity to support the Chang family. The two began to fall in love. The beautiful Chang Xiaonan was later spotted by the foreman of the Yangliu Song and Dance Ensemble. From then on, she changed her mind in love. She successively dumped Hong Shiyi and musician Wang Sun, and finally fell into the hands of the playboy Chen Siye, causing the Chang family to be ruined. Zhang Henshui (May 18, 1895 - February 15, 1967), whose original name was Xinyuan, Henshui was his pen name, which was taken from the poem "Meeting Happily" written by Li Yu in the Southern Tang Dynasty, which means "I will grow up in life and hate the water in the east". 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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