Zhao Shuli is a representative of the Yam and Egg School.

Zhao Shuli, formerly known as Zhao Shuli, a native of Yuchi Village, Qingshui County, Jin City, Shanxi Province, is a modern novelist, people's artist, and founder of the Yam and Egg School.

Born on September 24, 1906, in Qingshui County, Jin City, Shanxi Province, in a family of poor peasants, Zhao Shuli was admitted to the Fourth Teacher Training College of Changzhi, Shanxi Province, in the summer of 1925, and began to write new poems and novels.

In 1937, he joined the Chinese ****anization party and joined the revolution. After the liberation, he worked successively in publications such as Workers' Daily, Rap and Sing, Qu Yi, and People's Literature, and returned to work in Jincheng, Shanxi Province, in 1964. On September 23, 1970, he died.

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"Yam and Egg Pie

Zhao Shuli, the founder of the "Yam and Egg School", is known as the "Iron Pen" and "Sacred Hand" of modern novels for his literary achievements, and occupies an important position in the history of modern literature.

The reasons for his success are manifold, and one of the important reasons is that he was rooted in his hometown soil of Southeast Jin, familiar with the countryside, loving the people, and depicting a large number of unique regional folklore events in Southeast Jin, either as a background of the profound folk culture of his works or as a means of shaping the characters, revealing the characters' psychology, and advancing the development of the characters' characters. national characteristics.

Zhao Shuli's novels are valuable in that through his own aesthetic processing, he transformed the chaotic and simple folklore into living subjects for literary creation, reflecting the rural life in the Taihang area from the 1930s to the 1960s in a concrete and profound way, and displaying a vivid picture scroll of rural customs for us.