Republic of China9was born
March 5, 1920in the evening, Wang Zengqi was born in Gaoyou, Jiangsu. His grandfather, Wang Jiaxun, was a "baogong" in the last imperial examination of the Qing Dynasty.His father, Wang Jusheng (1897-1959), whose courtesy name was Danru, was proficient in seal cutting, calligraphy, and painting, and also learned many musical instruments.In the 12th year of the Republic of China (1933), Wang Zengqi's mother, Yang, passed away at the age of 3.
Republic of China14years5old
Wang Zengqi entered the kindergarten of the fifth elementary school in the county. His father, Wang Jusheng, married Zhang, who was Wang Zengqi's first stepmother.
Republic of China15years6old
Wang Zengqi entered the fifth county elementary school to study, and received formal classroom education. However, soon after entering the school, he showed a tendency towards subjects, barely passing in arithmetic, but often scoring first in Chinese class.
Republic of China20years11old
8th, a great flood occurred in Gaoyou, leaving tens of thousands of people missing and dead after the disaster. After the flood, the plague was rampant in Gaoyou, and thousands of people died, leaving a tragic scene that left a deep impression on Wang Zengqi. Later, he described this flood in his works many times.
Republic of China21years12old
Wang Zengqi was admitted to Gaoyou County Middle School.
Republic of China24years15old
Wang Zengqi was admitted to the senior high school of Nangjing Middle School in Jiangyin County (now Jiangyin City, Jiangsu Province).
Republic of China25years16Wang Zengqi's stepmother, Zhang, died of tuberculosis.
Republic of China26years17old
The Japanese army launched the War of Aggression against China, and Wang Zengqi, who was in the second year of high school, had to leave Nanjing Middle School and transfer to Huai'an Middle School, private Yangzhou Middle School, and Yancheng Temporary Middle School.7th, his father Wang Jusheng married Ren Shi, who became Wang Zengqi's second stepmother.
8August20,祖父 Wang Jiaxun passed away, aged72.
Republic of China28years19oldWang Zengqi was admitted to the Department of Chinese Literature of the Southwest Associated University. In Shen Congwen's workshop class, Wang Zengqi wrote the short story "Under the Lamp", which was revised many times under Shen Congwen's guidance and became the later "Extraordinary Talent". In the same year, Wang Zengqi wrote the first draft of the short story "Revenge".
Republic of China30years21old
Wang Zengqi and his classmates founded the magazine "Wen Ju". The pen names used include"Zeng Qi" and "Ximen Yu".After 1949, there are"Zeng Qi" and "Zeng Qi" among others.
Republic of China32 years23 years old
Wang Zengqi failed in physical education and did not do well in English, so he delayed his graduation by one year.
Republic of China33 years24 years old
Wang Zengqi passed the physical education and English make-up exams, but the authorities required that all university graduates of that year must become military interpreters for the US Army, serving as interpreters for Chennault's Flying Tigers and going to Myanmar to fight. Wang Zengqi did not go and thus did not receive his diploma.
After leaving the Southwest Associated University in January, Wang Zengqi, after becoming unemployed, began teaching at the private China Construction Middle School, which was founded by his classmates from the university. During his two years at China Construction Middle School, Wang Zengqi wrote the novel "The Bell of the Primary School" and revised the novel "Revenge." Both were recommended by Shen Congwen to Zheng Zhenduo, who edited the "Renaissance of Literature" magazine in Shanghai, and were published in it. In addition, he wrote the novels "Occupation," "Down and Out," and "Lao Lu," etc.
In this year, Wang Zengqi met Shi Songqing, who was also teaching at the Construction Middle School in China, and they established a romantic relationship.
Republic of China35years26old
7th, left Kunming and went to Shanghai, unemployed again, and then was recommended by Shen Congwen to Li Jianwu and was introduced to Zhiyuan Middle School as a teacher. During this period, he wrote novels such as "The Master of Chicken and Duck" and "The Cartwright Family".
Republic of China36years27old
4April, Wang Zengqi's "Lao Lu" was published in "Renaissance of Literature".8August, "Green Cat" was published in "Spring and Autumn of Literature".September, "Toothache" was published in "Literary Magazine".October,"Dai Chezhuang" was published in "Literary Magazine"; "Prisoner" was published in "Among People".November"Luo Pei" was published in "Literary News".Republic of China37th year28old
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In early spring, Wang Zengqi left Shanghai for Peking to join Shi Songqing, who was working as a graduate assistant in the Department of Foreign Languages at Peking University. He took temporary residence at Peking University. After being unemployed for more than two months, he was still helped by Shen Congwen,5and began working at the Peking Museum of History in May.
29 years old
1January, Beiping declared peace and liberation. Wang Zengqi married Shi Songqing.
In March, Wang Zengqi signed up for the "Four Wilds" southern work team,5and left Beijing for the south. However, due to"historical issues," he was detained in Wuhan to participate in the takeover of cultural and educational units, and later was assigned to the Second Girls' Middle School as the deputy head of education.
4in April, Wang Zengqi's first collection of short stories, "Revenge", "Lao Lu", "The Artist", "Dai Chejiang", "The Decline", "The Four Offenses", "The Chicken and Duck Expert", and "The Encounter"."The Encounter Collection", was published by the Cultural Life Press as one of the "Must-Publish Literary Magazines" edited by Ba Jin. The collection included 8 early works by Wang Zengqi:
30 years old
The Beijing Federation of Literature and Art Circles was established.7In July, Wang Zengqi returned to Beijing from Wuhan, and was introduced and arranged by Yang Yuemin and Wang Songsheng (then head of the Beijing Municipal Federation of Literature and Art) to be the editor of "Beijing Literature and Art" sponsored by the Beijing Federation of Literature and Art.
34 years old
Creating the Peking Opera script "Fan Jin Passes the Examination", which was initially neglected and shelved, was later discovered by Wang Kunlun, who recommended it for performance, and it received a very good response, attracting people's attention.
35 years old
2st, transferred to the Chinese Society for the Study of Folklore, and became an editor of the
37 years old
Wrote and published the prose "Guozijian" and the prose poem "Early Spring."Wang Zengqi wrote the short essay "Hesitation."After the start of the Anti-Rightist Movement, he was criticized for this short essay but was not labeled as a "rightist."
38 years old
Because of the"rightist" indicator of the unit did not meet the requirements, Wang Zengqi was re-classified, removed from office, and demoted. In the fall, Wang Zengqi was sent to the Zhangjiakou Shalingzi Agricultural Science Institute for labor.
39 years old
3March, father came to die, Weng Jusheng, at the age of62.
40 years old
10th, remove"hat", as he was temporarily assigned to the Academy of Agricultural Sciences to assist with work because a unit in Beijing was accepting him.
41 years old
In spring, the Agricultural Science Institute sent Wang Zengqi to the Potato Research Station in Gu Yuan to draw a set of potato maps.
In winter, after a long period of observation and reflection on life, Wang Zengqi began to write short stories again. He wrote "The Night in the Sheep Pen" on his homework paper with a brush. When the story was completed, Wang Zengqi sent it to Shen Congwen and his wife Zhang Zhaohe, who recommended it to Xiao Ye Mu, the editor of "People's Literature." The story was highly praised. After an investigation, the editorial department of "People's Literature" decided to publish it.
42 years old
1st, transferred to the Beijing Opera Troupe (later renamed Beijing Jing Theater) as a screenwriter, until retirement.
Sheep Pen One Night and Wang Quan were published successively in the 6th
Created the Peking Opera script "Wang Zhaojun" (starring Li Shijin) and "Lingyan Pavilion" (not performed).
43 years old
China Youth Children's Publishing House published Ding Wang Zeng Qi's novel collection "The Night of the Sheep Pen". This book includes "The Night of the Sheep Pen" (also known as "Sheep Pen One Night"), "Watching the Water" and "Wang Quan"3 short stories. This is the first novel collection by Wang Zeng Qi since the founding of New China, and it is also his second novel collection after "Encounter Collection".Created the Peking Opera script "Little Cui".
44 years old
The Peking Opera of the same name, adapted by Wang Zengqi, the main author, from the Shanghai Opera "The Seed of Fire in the Reeds", was performed by the Peking Opera Troupe and participated in the National Modern Peking Opera Appreciation Conference, where it received high praise. After the performance, according to Mao Zedong's opinion, the Peking Opera "The Seed of Fire in the Reeds" was renamed "Shajia Bang".
45 years old
Shajia Bang was revised and officially performed,1966the play was also published by the Beijing Publishing House.
46-56 years old
“Cultural Revolution” began, Wang Zengqi was put into“the牛pen”,1968th6th, Jiang Qing wanted to revise the Peking Opera“The Seed of Fire in the Reeds”
The full text of the Peking Opera script "Shajia Bang" was published in1970issue6of the "Red Flag" magazine.
Asone of the members of the "model group", Wang Zengqi, during the "Cultural Revolution", was ordered to go deep into life in Sichuan, Inner Mongolia, Tibet and other places, and successively participated in the writing of the Beijing Opera scripts such as "Sunrise over the City", "Fire on the Grassland", "Guerrilla Unit behind the Enemy Lines", "Rural Encounter", etc., but in the end, due to the constraints of the "three outstanding" creative principle, he achieved nothing.
57 years old
Crushthe "Gang of Four" not long after, Wang Zengqi was investigated and idle at home.
58 years old
Wang Zengqi picked up his pen again to write.12th, he wrote two articles in a row. One of them was a nearly ten thousand words long article called "Reading Folk Songs", the other was a 15000 words long article called "On "Four Merchants".
At the end of the year, the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Party was successfully held. Wang Zengqi was greatly inspired and his enthusiasm for creation gradually recovered.
59 years old11 months, the novel
60 years old
3rd, I wrote the novel "Butter Pancakes", which was later published in the2nd issue of "New Observation" after its revival.
5May, rewrite the old work "Extraordinary Talent".
"Receiving the戒" was published in "Beijing Literature" 10th issue, and it was warmly welcomed by readers. Praise for this novel could be seen in newspapers such as "Literary Trends" and "Beijing Literature". However, there were also those who held opposing views and wrote articles criticizing it in the newspapers.
61 years old
1In January, "Extraordinary Talent" was published in "Yuhua". "Yuhua", edited by the writer Gao Xiaosheng,"Editor's Note" points out: " Publishing this story is meaningful for expanding our horizons, broadening our thinking, and understanding the tradition of literature."
4In April, "The Big Pool" was published in "Beijing Literature", and in the same year inJune, it was reprinted in "Novel Monthly" and later in the magazine "Xinhua Digest". The work was later awarded the"National Excellent Short Story Award" in1981, and the"Beijing Literature Award" in1981, and was translated into various languages to introduce to foreign countries.
Excellent works are published one after another, and the creation of novels is becoming increasingly active. The main works include "Three Friends in the Cold", "Feathers", "Migrating", and other novels, which are published in magazines such as "October", "Beijing Literature", and "Harvest".
10, invited by the Gaoyou County People's Government, Wang Zengqi returned to his hometown Gaoyou for a visit. This was his first return since1939he left Gaoyou, and he was warmly welcomed and received by the local government and the people of his hometown.
62 years old
New works are constantly emerging, and his novels, essays, reviews, scripts, etc. can almost be seen in domestic newspapers and periodicals every month. The main works include: novels such as "The Twilight of Wang Sihai", "Local Notes", "The Three Times of Pi Feng's House", "The Connoisseur", etc., published in magazines such as "Novel World", "Beijing Literature", "Shanghai Literature", etc.The new historical play "Lifting the Drum to Battle Mount Jin" is published in the1issue of "Beijing Playwriting".
2st, the book "Wang Zengqi's Short Stories" was published by the Beijing Publishing House as one of the "Beijing Literature Creation Series". This book contains16of Wang Zengqi's stories. Among them, "Fu You", "Lao Lu", "Luo Pei", "Chicken and Duck Experts", etc.4are selected from the "Encounter Collection" published before the founding of New China; "Sheep Pen One Night", "Watching Water", "Wang Quan", etc.3are selected from the "Wen革" before the publication of "Sheep Pen's Night"; the remaining9are all written after the smashing of the "Four People Gang" and up to1981. The book includes famous works such as "Receiving戒" and "The Big Slab River Story".
63 years old
creation is more active, publishing nearly 20 pieces of novels, essays, reviews, etc. The main works are: novels such as "Sunday", "Eight Thousand Years", "Three old things in the hometown", etc., essays such as "Tianshan travel", "Xiang travel two records", "Peach blossom source record", "Yueyang Tower record", etc.
Not many works were published, but the novel "Jin Dongxin" and "Ri Guai" and the prose "Shen Congwen's Solitude" still attract the attention of readers and critics.
The prose "Mr. Lao She" won1984the"Beijing Literature Award".
Wang Zengqi published an article titled "On Style" in the6thissue of the "Literary Times," in which he said:“A writer reads many books, but the ones that truly influence his style are often few in number. Some people ask me which writers have influenced me deeply. I thought about it and came up with: among the ancients, it is Gui Youg; among modern Chinese writers, it is Lu Xun, Shen Congwen, and Fei Ming; and among foreign writers, it is Chekhov and Asorin.”
65 years old
Elected as a council member at the Fourth National Congress of the Chinese Writers' Association.
3Volume of short stories, "Dinner Flower Collection", was published by People's Literature Publishing House in March. This collection includes 19 stories written by the author from the second half of 1981 to the second half of 1983.19
10th, visited Hong Kong with the Chinese Writers Delegation.Created the script "Jiu Sheng Rong", published in the 3rd issue of "New Scripts".
66 years old
Prose "Food of the Hometown" was published in the 5th issue of "Yuhua", and later won the "Shuanggou Prose Award" presented by "Yuhua"; the literary critique "Thinking in Rhyme" was published in the 3rd issue of "Script", and later won the Beijing City Art Criticism Award in 1986. In addition, there are novels such as "Old Friends", "Three桥side Novels", "Anlejuz", etc., which have been well received by readers and highly praised by the literary circle after their publication.
The Peking Opera script "A Pile of Snow" was published in the 5th issue of "New Plays". This is an attempt by the author to transform some of the old Peking Opera scripts, "to make those who watch old plays enjoy themselves, and also to attract young audiences".
67 years old
2January, join the Communist Party of China.
4April16, Wang Zengqi went to Yunnan with the Chinese Writers Delegation on a visit.
9September, "Loneliness and Warmth" was published by Taiwan Xin Di Publishing House. This book is one of the "Contemporary Mainland China Authors Series" published by Taiwan Xin Di Publishing House, which includes 13 short stories by Wang Zengqi. All were selected from the "Wang Zengqi Short Story Collection" published by Beijing Publishing House in1982.
10th, The "Wang Zengqi Self-Selected Collection" was published by the Lijiang Publishing House. This book contains13poems and14essays, all written after the smashing of the"Gang of Four"; mainly short stories, totaling37, most of which are selected from the "Wang Zengqi Short Story Collection" and the "Dinner Flower Collection", only8were written after the publication of the two collections.
10th, at the invitation of Mr. and Mrs. Angell, I went to the United States to attend the“International Writing Program” event.
12December, appointed as a member of the Beijing Municipal Art Title Series High Art Title Evaluation Committee, participating in the evaluation of the qualifications of first and second-level art personnel. Appointed as a member of the Art Consulting Committee of the Beijing Jing Opera House.
68 years old
During my participation in the "International Writing Program" in the United States, the series of novels "Ruiyun", "Huangying", "Qiuqiu", and "Shiqingxu", which I wrote, were published in the March issue of "People's Literature". In addition, "Lujian" was published in the May issue of "Dianchi", and "Hualan" was published in the August issue of "Beijing Literature".
9September, The Tea-Planting Garden was published by the United Publishing House in Taiwan. This book is a collection of short stories by Wang Zengqi, containing a total of 30 short stories selected by the author himself.
The prose "Self-Introduction" was published in the8th issue of "The Writer", and later won the third "The Writer Award".
The prose "Abbot Wu and Seven and a Half Pounds" was published in12December7on the People's Daily, and later won the first prize in the newspaper's prose competition.
Published the prose "Starry Sky in Words, Childlike Heart in Person" (People's Literature8), literary critique "Chatting about the Sense of Responsibility of Writers" (Literary Freedom Talk, No.5).
69 years old
1In January, "Beijing Literature" and "United Literature" in Taipei published special issues of Wang Zengqi's works simultaneously.
United Literaturewith the banner headline "Zero Time Difference - Taipei. Beijing Sychronous Release", states: "United Literature is the publication that first published and introduced the works of Wang Zengqi outside of mainland China. Now, in cooperation with Beijing Literature in mainland China, we are launching the 'Exploration of Wang Zengqi's Works' special issue, which is a natural development."
3rd, the prose collection "Puqiao Ji" was published by the Writers' Publishing House.
4April11, in the"Reading Joy" column of the "New Min Daily", a four-character poem was published, titled "Why I Write": I engage in writing, for no other reason: from childhood to adulthood, my mathematics was not good. I was admitted to university and spent my days drinking tea. I studied Chinese literature and read a wide range of books. I occasionally wrote poetry and prose, and was fortunate to be published. I am of no use, and thus became a writer. I have been writing for half a century, and now I have grey hair. I have achieved very little, and have nothing to boast about. What thoughts do I have? They are close to Confucianism. People talk about the reasons, and express the elegance of the emotions. What style do I have? It is inclusive. It is not modern or ancient, and it is elegant if it is vulgar. I have no disputes with others, and my temperament is open-minded. That's all, really nothing much.
8in the month, the Peking Opera script "The Great Split" was published in "People's Literature".
The collection of short stories "Receiving the戒" is published by the Chinese Literature Publishing House. This book is one of the "Panda Series" by the Chinese Literature Publishing House and is the first time that the works of Wang Zengqi are compiled and introduced to foreign readers.Published"Liao Chai New Meaning" series of short stories3pieces: "Shuang Deng", published in the1issue of "Shanghai Literature": "Chu Kua Zhang San" and "Tong Meng", published in the6issue of "Shu Xin Jia".
70 years old
2February24, the prose "Seventy Years of Reflection" was published in the5th issue of "Modern Writers".
Short story collection "Stories After Dinner" (English version), published by the"Panda Series" by the Chinese Literature Publishing House, contains13pieces, including "Pi Feng's Three Nests of Houses" and "Chicken Feathers", the other11pieces are the same as the author's French short story collection "Receiving the戒".
71 years old
5May, the
5At the end of May, the results of the national prose competition jointly organized by the Philippine Coconut Wind Literature Association and the editorial department of "Fujian Literature" were announced in Fuzhou. Wang Zengqi's prose "Many Years of Father and Son" won the second prize. The novel "Xiao Fang" was published in the5th issue of "Chinese Writers", and later won the1991-1992Annual Excellent Short Story Award of "Chinese Writers".
11st, The collection "Wang Zengqi's Self-Selected Works" was renamed "Receiving the Precepts-Wang Zengqi's Self-Selected Works" and reissued by the Lijiang Publishing House.
72 years old
10th, "Wang Zengqi's Essays" was published by the People's University of China Press.
12In December, the "Selected Works of Contemporary Chinese Writers. Wang Zengqi" was published by the People's Literature Publishing House. This book includes 45 representative works of the author's novels and essays from various periods.
Start writing the autobiographical series of essays "逝 Water", which were published in the magazine "Writer" in Jilin, in installments.10The first issue of this series of essays, "My Hometown", was published in the October73issue.
6th, the novel collection "Deep in the Reeds and Pampas", with the background of the author's hometown Gaoyou, was published by Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House. This novel collection includes 22 novels by the author with the background of his hometown Gaoyou, and also includes the author's articles on the writing experience of the two famous works "Receiving the戒" and "The Great Nunnery".
9th, the prose collection "Tea Records of Yushucun" was published by the Chinese Overseas Publishing House. In the same month, another prose collection "Flower Collection" was published by the Chengdu Publishing House.
10th, the4-volume5-book120-thousand-word
11, the collection of essays "Essays on the Tower" was published by the People's Publishing House.
December, the prose collection "Lao Xue Xian" was published by the Shaanxi People's Publishing House.
The prose "Wild Vegetables of My Hometown" won the first prize in the "Miqi Cup" same topic prose writing competition sponsored by the "Zhongshan" magazine.
74 years old
1January8, the -Cross-Strait and Tri-Side Chinese Fiction Seminars", sponsored by the of Taiwan, was held for a week. Wang Zengqi was invited to attend the seminar as an important novelist connecting the China Times1990to1940"From
9 in September, was published by Gansu Cultural Publishing House.The Selected Short Stories of Wang Zengqi's Life
The main works published this year include the novel "The Man who Sells Glasses in Baoying" and "The Daughter of the Family豆腐店", and the prose "Seven Years of Clouds and烟".
75 years old
Published the novels "Shiwell Spring", "Xishen", "Wuface", "Water Snake Waist", the prose "Caogangkou", etc.
76 years old
1st, the collection of Wang Zengqi's prose "Wu Wei Ji", edited by Ding Fan, was published by the Taiwan Youth Lion Cultural Industry Company.
3rd, the novel collection "The Short Paper" was published by the Yangtze River Literature and Art Publishing House. The prose collection "The Flowing Water" was published by the China Youth Publishing House.
The prose collection "Duo Zuo Xia Pin" was published by the Ningxia People's Publishing House.
The "Selected Prose of Wang Zengqi" is published by the Hundred Flowers Literature and Art Publishing House.
7July, the novel "Water Snake Waist" won the excellent works award of "Novel Selection".
12in the fifth National Congress of the Chinese Writers' Association, he was elected as a member of the Standing Committee.
77 years old
2st, Wang Zengqi's novel "Three Contemporary Wild Men" was published in the1st issue of "Novel", a bi-monthly magazine published by the China Youth Publishing House, all of which were"Cultural Revolution" themes.
3In March, the magazine "Works and Controversies" discussed the novel "Little Mother" by Wang Zengqi, which was published in1996the4thissue of "Harvest" and later reprinted by "Novel Selection".
5May12th, suddenly coughed up blood in the middle of the night and was immediately sent to the Friendship Hospital for emergency treatment, diagnosed with diffuse bleeding caused by esophageal varices due to cirrhosis.
5May16th10o'clock30minutes, due to ineffective rescue and unfortunately passed away, at the age of77.
