Information of Ye Shengtao

Ye Shengtao, formerly known as Ye Shaojun, nicknamed Bingchen, and Shengtao, was born on October 28, 1894 in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. He is a modern writer, educator, literary publisher and social activist. He is an "excellent language artist" called.

In 1907, he was admitted to Caoqiao Middle School. In 1916, he entered the Shang Gong School attached to the Shanghai Commercial Press to teach, and published the first fairy tale "Scarecrow". In 1918, he published his first vernacular novel "Spring Banquet Tales". In 1923, he published the novel "Ni Huanzhi".

After 1949, he successively served as deputy minister of education, president and editor-in-chief of the People's Education Press, member of the All-China Joint Committee of Literary and Art Circles, consultant to the Chinese Writers Association, director of the Central Research Institute of Literature and History, and Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference of the People's Republic of China, member of the Standing Committee of the First, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth National People's Congress, and Chairman of the Central Committee for the Advancement of Democracy. In 1983, he was elected Vice Chairman of the Sixth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He is a representative of the first to fourth National People's Congress, a member of the Standing Committee of the fifth National People's Congress, a member of the first National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and a member of the Standing Committee of the fifth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Died in Beijing on February 16, 1988, at the age of 94.

Literary Contribution

Ye Shengtao's first academic article on children's literature

The paper was titled "The Concept of Children" and criticized the bad influences on Chinese children. .

In fact, Ye Shengtao was the first author to write fairy tales in the 1920s. His work "The Scarecrow" was published in 1923. This children's book is extremely popular among many teenagers. Another work, "Stone Statues of Ancient Heroes," tells the story of a stone carved into the image of a hero. The moral behind this easy-to-read story is to mock the arrogance of experts and the insensitivity of people.

Ye Shengtao passionately advocates standardizing modern Chinese including standardized grammar, rhetoric, vocabulary, punctuation, simplified characters and the elimination of variant Chinese characters. He also compiled and standardized the Chinese characters for publications and prescribed the Chinese Pinyin scheme. His efforts improved the quality and organization of editorial work.

The most important thing is that Ye Shengtao advocated the use of vernacular Chinese in the publishing field. Most of his magazines and newspapers use vernacular, which greatly facilitates reading for reporters and readers. All these contributions have promoted the development of journalism in China.

Education Contribution

Ye Shengtao’s educational thought made an original, systematic and important contribution to the modern education theory with Chinese characteristics. This educational thought takes the practice of China's education reform as its logical starting point and forms the materialist dialectical theory of China's education reform. In exploring and answering practical problems in China's education reform, it incisively and uniquely reveals the basic principles of modern education in China; in summary By refining the practical experience of China’s education reform, we have developed and innovated China’s modern education and teaching theory.