Xu Dishan (1893 ~ 194 1) is a modern writer and scholar. Zankun, whose real name is Dishan, was deeply impressed by the metaphor of his father educating his children when he was a child. When Xu Dishan started writing at +092 1, he took groundnut as his pen name ("Hua" is the same as "Hua" in ancient Chinese) and encouraged himself to be a person with peanuts. My ancestral home is Jieyang, Guangdong, and I was born in a patriotic family in Tainan, Taiwan Province Province. After returning to the mainland, he settled in Longxi, Fujian. 19 10 After graduating from middle school, I worked as a teacher in normal schools and middle schools. 19 17 was admitted to yenching university College of Literature, and 1920 graduated and stayed as a teacher. During this period, he and Zhai Qiubai, Zheng Zhenduo and others co-organized the magazine "New Society" to actively promote the revolution. Engaged in literary activities around the May 4th Movement, 192 1 1. 10, he and Shen Yanbing, Ye Shengtao, Zheng Zhenduo, etc. 12 initiated the establishment of a literary research society in Peiping, and founded the Novel Monthly. From 65438 to 0922, he went to the United States and entered the Philosophy Department of the Graduate School of Columbia University in new york to study religious history and comparative studies, and obtained a master's degree in literature. Later, he transferred to Mansfield College of Oxford University to study religion, Indian philosophy, Sanskrit, anthropology and folklore. From 65438 to 0927, he returned to China and worked as an associate professor and professor in yenching university College of Literature and Religious Studies, devoting himself to literary creation. 1935 was hired as the director professor of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Hong Kong, and his family moved to Hong Kong. During his stay in Hong Kong, he also served as the chairman of the Sino-British Cultural Association in Hong Kong. 1937 After the July 7th Incident, he published articles and speeches to publicize anti-Japanese and oppose surrender. After the "Southern Anhui Incident", Chiang Kai-shek and Zhang Yibing signed a letter calling for unity, peace and a truce. At the same time, he served as the executive director of the Hong Kong branch of the All-China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, campaigning for the cause of resisting Japan and saving the nation, and carrying out various organizational and educational work. Eventually he died of overwork.
Most of Xu Dishan's literary works in his life are set in Fujian, Taiwan Province, Guangdong, Southeast Asia and India. His main works include Rain on an Empty Mountain, Weaving a Spider, Falling into a Dangerous Nest, History of Taoism, Collection of Great Hearts, Indian Literature, etc. Translated works include Twenty Nights, Sunrise, Bangladeshi Folk Tales, etc!
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Xu Dishan has great respect for Tagore, India's "poet saint". He likes Tagore's works, so he translated Tagore's poems, novels and essays such as Gitanjali, On the Way to Calcutta, Novel Monthly, Master, Take My Pipa. Xu Dishan's love for Tagore aroused his keen interest in Indian literature. 1928 translated Bangladeshi folk stories, 1930 published the monograph "Indian literature", 1934 also translated the Indian story "The Sun Rises, Twenty Nights Ask". After several years' efforts, Xu Dishan's efforts for cultural exchanges between China and India have achieved fruitful results. According to statistics, Xu Dishan wrote 8 academic papers and 5 academic works in the years after he returned from studying in Britain (from 1927 to 1935 when he left yenching university).