| "Rose" was very noteworthy in Zhou Zuoren's language during the "May 4th" Movement, implying the ideals of the intellectuals who resisted the ugly reality. Zhou Zuoren's image of "rose" originated from Yukomo's novel Yellow Rose in Hungary. The love poems of Sappho, the tenth goddess of literature and art in ancient Greece, were another important source of rose images. The relationship between Zhou Zuoren and Yutai Xinzi can be called "Rose". The rosette-like relationship with his wife can not be attributed to Zhou Zuoren's broad thinking and cognitive mentality. Zhou Zuoren had always used "Rose" in the sense of love, and Yutai Xinzi may be a "Rose" fable in a certain sense. Zhou Zuoren's rose was based on love. The gospel of love had been spreading for a long time and had been deeply rooted in people's hearts. If we explore its source, Zhou Zuoren's image of "rose" is unavoidable and thrown away. Zhou Zuoren once called “literature and art” as a career of roses, but with the fading of the halo of roses, literature and art disappeared, and literature store was declared closed. After 1923, Zhou Zuoren rarely mentioned roses and the ideal era was gradually fading away. |
