潮籍女作家许心影著作考略

A Study of the Works of Xu Xinying, a Chaoshan Female Writer

被称为"潮籍女诗人"的许心影,既秉承了父亲许伟余的国学修养,擅长古典诗词文赋;同时也继承了父亲在潮汕首开白话文创作的先锋思想,创作有现代抒情诗歌、散文和小说。许心影青年时代即闻名于潮汕文坛。1926-1934年期间曾在上海就读大学以文为生,是30年代上海文坛的知名女作家。1934年后离开上海回到汕头以教书为生,业余创作,在当地报刊杂志发表大量诗文。她一生创作丰富,其作品文笔优美,意境深远,浪漫感伤,作品主题反映了现代新女性追求自我解放的心路历程。

Xu Xinying(1908-1958)was a female writer born in Chenghai. Originally named as Xu Lansun, she used Bai'Ou as her pen name.She inherited her father's cultivation in Chinese studies and specialized in classical poetry. She also inherited her father's work of vernacularwriting pioneering in Chaoshan area, composing modern lyric poetry, prose and novels. Her brilliance made her well known in the Chaoshanliterary world at an early age. From 1926 to 1934, she was studying and living in Shanghai as a famous woman writer. After 1934, she returnedto Shantou to teach for a living. She wrote in her spare time and published many poems and articles in local newspapers and magazines. Prolific,elegant, romantic and sentimental, her works reflect the mentality of modern women in pursuit of self-liberation. Unfortunately, most of her workswere lost and forgotten by history. In recent years, the author collects some of her works through document search and oral interviews to herrelatives and friends, in order to restore her status in the history of literature.