Editing Report of "Historical History of Chinese Literature" ◎Zhu Tianwen The complete works of Hu Lancheng have been published: "Zen is a Flower" (completed in 65 years of the Republic of China), "Mountains and Rivers" (43 years), (48 years), "What Day is Today" (69 years), and now published "History of Chinese Literature "covers the treatises from the 33rd year to the 66th year of the Republic of China, and is divided into the upper lane and the second volume. There are five chapters in the first volume.The first "Articles on Ritual and Music", such as "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", does not talk about major events in the world at the beginning, but first talks about the principles of division and combination of major events in the world. "law", set its coordinates.

The second chapter, "The Way of Heaven and the World", said that ancient Chinese literature is one, gratitude to nature.Two, loyalty to the king.Three, fun.Four, anti-happy.It also shows its quality. Three "Authors of Chinese Literature", one is a scholar, the other is a commoner.Artists and art are not expensive, and their personality is also distinguished. So the four articles "Literature and the Fortune of the Times" started from the Tang, Yu, Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, to the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, and published Han articles. Turned to the new sentiment era of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, they were published in the Tang Dynasty, and in the Southern Song Dynasty, scholars began to weaken .Although the scholars withered, the people were still alive, and the literature in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties was getting worse, but the literature of the people was like stars shining when the moon was dark.Then came the May Fourth Literary Revolution, and began to regard literature as art.

So there is the last chapter "The Mission of Literature". The above is the "History of Chinese Literature" written by Mr. Hu in the summer of 1966 in Japan, where he lived abroad.Because there are many young writers among the students Mr. Hu taught in Taiwan, he wrote this work to encourage teaching, and use the works of these young people as examples to explain more, the background is like this. It is now compiled into a book, plus an article "On the Establishment of Modern Literature in China", which was written earlier, in response to a paper written by a friend, Mr. Long, in a newspaper. This is the first volume.

The second volume contains individual reviews, which are like the satellite towns of the first volume.Six articles were written in Shanghai during the isolated island period, one article was written when I first fled to Japan, two articles were written during my lectures in Taiwan, and three articles were written in my later years after returning to Tokyo.It can be seen that the track of Mr. Hu's thoughts and the variation of his writing style End of November 1990