Zhong Zhaozheng, the author of "Lu Binghua", died at the age of 96

Zhong Zhaozheng, the "mother of Taiwanese literature" and a representative writer of Taiwanese Hakka literature, passed away on the evening of the 16th at the age of 96. Zhong Zhaozheng is famous for his novel "Lu Binghua", and his representative works include "Turbid Flow Trilogy", "Taiwanese Trilogy", "Alpine Trilogy", "Nu Tao" and other novels. After years of unremitting pen cultivation, he is equally famous with Ye Shitao in taiwan's literary circles, and the two are known as "North Bell South Leaves", and are the forerunners of Taiwan's Dahe novels, with as many as 23 works and works.

Zhong Zhaozheng was born in Longtan, Taoyuan in 1925, and graduated from Tamkang Middle School and Changhua Youth Normal School in his early years. During the war, due to malaria, he dropped out of school and returned home from the Chinese department of National Taiwan University. After the war, he aspired to devote himself to literary creation and studied Chinese diligently. At the age of 26, the article was first published in a magazine, and his interest in writing was ignited. In 1961, his first novel, Lu Binghua, was published in Taiwan's Lianhe Pao, criticizing the social gap between rich and poor, the education system, rural development, and black-money politics, and was adapted into a film and television series.

Zhong Zhaozheng once said that farmers work in agriculture to earn a living, but he learns to write articles on manuscript paper all his life. In addition to writing, he has founded the colleague magazine "Wenyou Newsletter", edited "Taiwan Literature and Art", and served as the editor-in-chief of the "People's Daily" supplement. Poet Xiang Yang once said that in that era, Zhong Zhaozheng established the style of Taiwan's local supplements, such as lifting lights, illuminating the frontiers, cherishing and encouraging the creation of local writers, and was undoubtedly the guardian of Taiwan's local literature. He also invested in translating and translating works to introduce Japanese literature to Taiwan.

Zhong Zhaozheng has served as a primary school teacher, a lecturer in the Department of Oriental Languages at Soochow University, and the chairman of the Taiwan Hakka Public Affairs Association, etc., and has won numerous awards and has a high reputation in Taiwan's literary circles. He once said, "When reading novels, I attach great importance to the impression of wholeness, so in the process of judging, I especially prefer novels with spiritual exploration and adventure. And its expression form should be relatively thick and not frivolous, but the technique should be novel and not conventional. ”

Zhong Zhaozheng also likes music, teaches himself piano, and sometimes hums songs, once said that there is an absolute sense of sound, if not heavy listening, may develop to the road of music. Usually life is simple, get up at 7 or 8 o'clock every day to eat breakfast, flip through the newspaper, watch TV, like to watch baseball.

The Straits Herald reports comprehensively