Ye Shengtao, formerly known as Ye Zi, was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province on October 28th, 1894. Modern writers, educators, literary publishers and social activists are known as "excellent language artists".
1907, admitted to Caoqiao Middle School. 19 16 entered the Shanggong School affiliated to Shanghai Commercial Press and published the first fairy tale Scarecrow. 19 18 published the first vernacular novel Spring Banquet. 1923 published the novel Ni Huanzhi.
After 1949, he successively served as Vice Minister of Education, President and Editor-in-Chief of People's Education Publishing House, Member of All-China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Consultant of Chinese Writers Association, Curator central research institute of culture and history, Vice Chairman of People's Republic of China (PRC) CPPCC, Standing Committee of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th NPC, and Chairman of the Central Committee for Democratic Progressive Party. 1983 was elected as the vice chairman of the 6th China People's Political Consultative Conference. He is a deputy to the First to Fourth National People's Congress, a member of the Fifth the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC), a member of the First China People's Political Consultative Conference and a member of the Standing Committee of the Fifth China People's Political Consultative Conference.
1988 February 16 died in Beijing at the age of 94.
Literary contribution
Ye Shengtao's first academic paper on children's literature was entitled "The Concept of Children", which criticized the bad influence on children in China.
In fact, Ye Shengtao was the first fairy tale writer in the 1920s. The work Scarecrow was published in 1923. This children's book is very popular among many teenagers. Another work, The Stone Statue of Ancient Heroes, tells the story that a stone was carved into a heroic image. The moral behind this popular story is to laugh at the arrogance of experts and people's numbness.
Ye Shengtao enthusiastically advocates the standardization of modern Chinese, including the standardization of grammar, rhetoric, vocabulary, punctuation, simplification of characters and the removal of variant characters. He also compiled and standardized the Chinese characters in his publications, and stipulated the scheme of Chinese Pinyin. His efforts have improved the quality and organizational structure of editing work.
Most importantly, Ye Shengtao advocates the use of vernacular Chinese in the field of publishing. Most of his magazines and newspapers use vernacular Chinese, which greatly facilitates the reading of journalists and readers. These contributions have promoted the development of journalism in China.
Ye Shengtao's masterpiece The Scarecrow is the first collection of fairy tales for children in New China. The author Ye Shengtao is also a pioneer of China's modern fairy tale creation. Mao Dun commented on Ye Shengtao in this way: You want to find amazing things from his works, but you may not; However, even at the beginning, he had the power to purify and sublimate human nature.
Introduction to Fairy Tales: There was an old woman. There is a scarecrow in her field. The scarecrow guarded the rice fields for her. However, the moth buried a seed on the leaf. The old woman didn't see the rolled leaves. The worm ate all the rice, and the scarecrow warned the old lady, but the old lady didn't know. Scarecrow saw that the fisherman and crucian carp were pitiful, and he couldn't help them himself, so he fell sadly.
The Scarecrow, a fairy tale, truly describes the stormy world in rural China in the 1920s through the thoughts and feelings of a compassionate but helpless scarecrow.