Zhang Henshui's Works Series: the Foreign History of Chunming (2 Volumes in Total)
About This Novel
"Chunming Foreign History" is Zhang Henshui's famous work. It began to be serialized in "World Evening News" on April 16, 1924, and was not completely serialized until January 24, 1929, which lasted for five years. The novel had thirty-nine chapters when it was serialized, and was later divided into eighty-six chapters when it was published, with nearly a million words. The protagonist Yang Xingyuan lives in Peking and makes a living by selling literature. He falls in love with Li Yun, a brothel girl, at first sight. However, the beauty's fate was poor, and Li Yun died soon after they met. Later, Yang Xingyuan met Li Dongqing, a down-and-out talented girl, and they exchanged poems and poems, and their relationship became deeper and deeper. However, due to a hidden illness, Li Dongqing finally had a hard time getting married, so he wanted to make the marriage between Shi Kelian and Yang Xingyuan possible. Shi Kelian knew that Yang Xingyuan had been deeply in love with Li Dongqing for a long time, so she wisely stayed away. After many twists and turns, Yang Xingyuan became disheartened about marriage and turned to Buddhism. The so-called "Chunming" was originally a city gate in Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty. Later generations used it to refer to the capital in general, so "Chunming Foreign History" means "A Grand View of Beijing's Strange Current Situation". The author takes society as the warp and romance as the weft, "using the method of "A Dream of Red Mansions" to write "The Scholars"". It has a broad background and touches all walks of life, showing the various human emotions of the three religions and nine streams in Beijing. It is a genre painting and shady picture of Beijing in the 1920s.
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