Background information about Lao She

Lao She (1February 3, 899-1August 24, 966), whose real name is Shu Qingchun, was originally named Shu Shujue Roche, a famous modern novelist, writer and dramatist in China. Persecuted during the Cultural Revolution,1On the night of August 24th, 966, Lao She drowned in Taiping Lake in northwest Beijing at the age of 67. Ms. Hu Jieqing (1905-200 1). Life experience My father was a Manchu guard who was killed in the street fighting when Eight-Nation Alliance attacked Beijing. When Lao She was a baby, her home was ransacked by Italian soldiers in Eight-Nation Alliance. Lao She survived as a baby because of an upside-down box. Lao She started a private school at the age of nine with financial support. 19 13, admitted to Shi Jing No.3 Middle School (now Beijing No.3 Middle School), dropped out of school several months later due to financial difficulties, and was admitted to Beijing Normal University in the same year. /kloc-graduated in 0/918. Work experience: I used to be a primary school principal (Hutong Road Primary School, Fang Jia, Dongcheng District, Beijing), a middle school teacher, a university professor (Peking University, Shandong University) and a lecturer at the School of Asian and African Studies, University of London, and taught for 5 years. The origin of the pen name is "She Yu", Lao She is his most commonly used pen name, and there are other pen names such as Qing, Yu and Kouqing. Because Lao She was born at the end of the lunar calendar, his parents named him "Chun Qing", which probably means to celebrate the arrival of spring and have a bright future. After Shu Qingchun went to school, she changed her name to Shu Sheyu. "Sheyu" is the split of the word "Shu": Sheyu and Sheyu; For me. It means "give up on yourself", that is, "forget me". The pseudonym "Lao She" was first used by him when he published the novel "Lao Zhang's Philosophy" on 1926. Add the word "old" in front of "Lao She" and remove the word "Yu" behind it, and it becomes the well-known "Lao She". This "old" does not mean old age, but has a consistent and eternal meaning, which together means consistent and eternal "forgetting me". He published a large number of literary works under the pseudonym "Lao She", so that many people only know "Lao She" and don't know who Shu Qingchun is. "Lao She" is his most commonly used pen name.