Pen name and meaning

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The meaning of pen name: pen name is an alias used by the author to hide his real name when publishing his works. This literary phenomenon is quite common. Lu Xun is the pseudonym of Zhou Shuren.

Lu Xun's Preface to Lace Literature: "I could have stopped there, but in order to get angry, I changed my way, changed my pen name and asked someone to copy it and submit it." Ba Jin prefaces Silence: "But I have also published several articles under other pseudonyms."

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The reason why pen names appear,

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties in China, novels were despised and humble, so some writers of Zhang Hui's novels used pseudonyms for their own reputation. For example, Lan Shaosheng's novel Jin Ping Mei in Ming Dynasty is a pen name, and its real name has not been verified so far.

After the May 4th Movement, the class struggle became increasingly fierce and the political environment was extremely sinister. There are more and more pseudonyms in articles, especially essays that criticize the current abuses, attack the darkness and are combative. In order to avoid the persecution of white terror, the use of pseudonyms has become more common. Zhou Shuren used more than 100 different pen names, such as Yu Jie, Lu Xun, He Jiagan, Zhongdu, Bai Dao and He Feng.

There are also many other writers who have used dozens or dozens of pseudonyms. Some writers, because they often use pen names in their main works, are not well known to varying degrees with the extensive social influence of their works. Mao Dun, Ba Jin, Lao She, Cao Yu, Xia Yan, Ding Ling and Ai Qing are all pseudonyms.

Their real names, Shen Dehong, Li Yaotang, Shu Qingchun, Wan Jiabao, Shen Duanxian, Jiang and Jiang Haicheng, are rare. There are nearly 7,000 pen names in the list of modern literary circles in China.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-pen name