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朱自清

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Meanings

  1. 1 Zhu Ziqing (1898-1948), modern Chinese essayist and poet, Tsinghua professor famous for the lyrical essays Lotus Pond by Moonlight (荷塘月色) and Back (背影)

Examples

《荷塘月色》是朱自清最有名的散文。
'Hétáng Yuèsè' shì Zhū Zìqīng zuì yǒumíng de sǎnwén.
Lotus Pond by Moonlight is Zhu Ziqing's most famous essay.
中学课本里几乎都有《背影》。
Zhōngxué kèběn lǐ jīhū dōu yǒu 'Bèiyǐng'.
Almost every middle-school textbook includes Back.

Tips

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His essay 背影 — the narrator watching his father awkwardly clamber over a rail platform to buy tangerines — is the archetypal Chinese piece about quiet paternal love and has reduced generations of schoolchildren to tears. 荷塘月色 is the classic training text for modern lyrical prose.
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Mao Zedong praised him in 别了,司徒雷登 for refusing U.S. food relief during the 1948 famine 'even though he was starving.' Died of stomach ulcers the same year at age 50.

Stroke Order

朱 zhū
自 zì
清 qīng