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Xu Yunuo (simplified Chinese: 徐玉诺; traditional Chinese: 徐玉諾, 10 November 1894 – 9 April 1958), also known for his pen name Honghuo (simplified Chinese: 红蠖; traditional Chinese: 紅蠖), was a Chinese poet and writer.

Biography

Xu was born in Lushan County in Henan on 10 November 1894. In 1916, he was admitted to Henan Provincial No.1 Normal School in Kaifeng. During the May Fourth Movement in 1919, Xu was one of the student leaders in Kaifeng and participated in the general strike against Beiyang government. In order to protest the arrests of students by Zhao Ti, the then military governor of Henan, Xu attempted suicide by lying a railway track, and was saved by his teacher Ji Wenfu.

In 1920, Xu published his first work on Morning Post Supplement, and was introduced into Literary Research Association (Chinese: 文学研究会) by Zheng Zhenduo. From 1921 to 1924, he published several works in Fiction Monthly, Morning Post Supplement, Literary Weekly and other publications. In August 1922, he published his poetry collection The Garden of The Future and Snow Dynasty, which received praises from notable writers such as Lu Xun and Mao Dun.

In 1923, Xu moved to Xiamen in southern China to work as newspaper editor and school teacher. In the following decades, he worked as a school teacher in various schools and universities around China, including Jilin Yuwen High School, Xiamen University and Qufu Normal University. In 1956, he became a member of the China Writers Association.

On 9 April 1958, Xu died in Kaifeng due to esophageal cancer.

Legacy

The main character of Ye Shengtao's work The Fire was modeled after Xu.

References

1. Shi, Shuping (2006). 知识分子的岗位与追求: 文学研究会研究 [The Position and Pursuit of Intellectuals: Research by the Literary Research Association] (in Simplified Chinese). Dongfang Publishing Center. p. 64. ISBN 978-7-80186-470-3.
2. Zhao, Xiaqiu (1984). 中国现代小说史 [History of modern Chinese novels] (in Simplified Chinese). Vol. 1. China Renmin University Press.
3. 河南文史资料 [Henan cultural and historical materials] (in Simplified Chinese). Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. 2000. pp. 42–44.
4. McDougall, Bonnie S.; Louie, Kam (1997). The Literature of China in the Twentieth Century. Columbia University Press. pp. 45–46. ISBN 978-0-231-11085-3.
5. Du, Yan (1 December 2016). 河南当代名作家传略：1919—1980 [Biographies of famous contemporary writers in Henan: 1919-1980] (in Simplified Chinese). Beijing Book Co. Inc. p. 6. ISBN 978-7-5645-3572-8.
6. Chen, Yuanzhen (1994). 现代中国的诗人与诗派 [Poets and Schools of Poetry in Modern China] (in Simplified Chinese). Hunan Normal University. p. 85. ISBN 978-7-81031-379-7.
7. 柯文溥 (1993). 现代作家与闽中乡土 (in Chinese). 福建教育出版社. ISBN 978-7-5334-1171-8.
8. Zhou, Liangpei (2006). 中国现代新诗序集 [Preface to Chinese Modern New Poems] (in Simplified Chinese). 海天出版社. p. 210. ISBN 978-7-80697-810-8.
9. Cui, Jian (1995). 再別康桥: 中国二三十年代情诗回味 [Goodbye Cambridge: Aftertaste of Chinese Love Poems from the 1920s and 1930s] (in Simplified Chinese). 外文出版社. p. 136. ISBN 978-7-119-00938-4.
10. 中国诗歌大辞典 [Dictionary of Chinese Poetry] (in Simplified Chinese). Writers Publishing House. 1990. p. 287. ISBN 978-7-5063-0210-4.
11. Chen, Liao (1981). 叶圣陶评传 [Commentary on Ye Shengtao] (in Simplified Chinese). Baihua Edition. p. 68.

• 1894 births
• 1958 deaths
• Chinese male poets