Jane Austen (December 16, 1775 – July 18, 1817) was a famous British female novelist whose works mainly focused on the marriage and life of women in squire families, and realistically depicted the small world of the world around her with women's characteristic nuanced observation and lively and witty words.

Austin never married, and his family was well-off. Because he lived in a small rural town, he came into contact with small and medium-sized landlords, priests and other figures, as well as their quiet and comfortable living environment. As a result, there are no major social contradictions in her work. With her unique nuanced observation, she realistically depicts the small world around her, especially the marriage and love turmoil between gentlemen and ladies.

Her works were light-hearted and full of comic conflicts, which were very popular with British readers at the time. From the end of the eighteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth century, vulgar and boring "sentimental novels" and "Gothic novels" flooded the British literary scene, while Austen's novels broke through the old and new, unconventionally showing the daily life and idyllic scenery of the English rural middle class, which had not yet been affected by the capitalist industrial revolution. Her works often mock people's ridiculous weaknesses such as stupidity, selfishness, snobbery, and blind self-confidence through comedic scenes. Austen's novels appeared in the early nineteenth century, swept away the popular trend of pseudo-romanticism, inherited and developed the excellent realist tradition of the 18th century in England, and prepared for the climax of the realist novel in the 19th century. Although the breadth and depth of her works are still very limited, her works are like "two-inch ivory carvings", peeking into the entire social form and human feelings from a small window, which played a good role in changing the vulgar atmosphere in the creation of novels at that time, and has the significance of connecting the past and the next in the history of the development of British novels, and is praised as a writer whose status is "equal to Shakespeare".

Jane Austen was born in a pastoral family in the town of Steventon, Hampshire, England, and lived a peaceful, well-to-do country life. There were eight siblings, with Austin coming in sixth. She never went to a formal school, but when she was nine years old, she was sent to her sister's school. Her older sister, Cassandra, was her lifelong best friend, but Austen's initiation was much more due to her father. Austen was an avid reader and writer, and by the time she was eleven or twelve years old, she began to take up writing as a pleasure. As an adult, Austen moved with her family several times. In 1817, Austen was already ill, and in order to seek medical treatment, the family moved for the last time. However, she died just over two months after arriving in Manchester. Posthumously buried in Winchester Cathedral. Jane Austen never married. He was only forty-one years old when he died.

Almost all of Austen's novels have been revised and rewritten over a long period of time. Her first published novel was Sense and Sensibility (1811). Pride and Prejudice (1813) is her second work. These two works, including Northumbrasse (1818), published after her death, were written in the nineties of the eighteenth century and are usually considered her early works. Mansfield Manor (1814), Emma (1816) and Persuasion (1818) were written in the 19th century and are considered later works. These six works, in total, are only 1.5 million words (in Chinese), which is not a lot. When the work was first published, it didn't sell very much.

However, her place in English literature has become more and more important with the passage of time, so much so that some critics believe that Jane Austen, the woman who is the pride of England, is undoubtedly the closest writer to the master [of Shakespeare]. She created a whole bunch of characters for us. (Toh Bar Macaulay).

Another person who compares her to Shakespeare is the critic of modern America, Edmund Wilson. He said: For more than 100 years, there have been several interesting revolutions in Britain. The revival of literary tastes has affected the prestige of almost all writers, with the exception of Shakespeare and Jane Austen.

The number of writers who have praised Austen, starting with Walter Scott, can be said to be endless, and there are roughly in a row: Trope, George Eliot, Coleritch, Mrs. Browning, Sausset, Love Mor Foster, etc. But what exactly her excellence and greatness are manifested in is not clear at once. Virginia Woolf once said that of all the great writers, her greatness is the most difficult to capture.

According to the Concise Encyclopædia Britannica, Jane Austen was "the first novelist to realistically depict ordinary people in everyday mundane life." [Her work] is a comedy that reflects the life of the English middle class at the time, showing the possibility of 'family' literature. She explores the process of self-discovery of young heroines from love to marriage many times. This focus on the character and the tension between the heroine and society allows her novels to break away from the traditions of the eighteenth century and approach modern life. It is this modernity, combined with her wit and wit, her realism and compassion, her elegant prose and clever story structure, that make her novels captivate readers for a long time.

He also said that the exaggerated and dramatic romance novels that were popular at that time (referring to the early nineteenth century) had become tired of people, and Austen's austere realism was a fresh wind and was welcomed by readers. It was not until the twentieth century that she was recognized as the most astute observer of the English Regent period (1810-1820), who seriously analyzed the nature and cultural quality of the society of the time, and documented the transformation of the old society into the modern one. Modern critics also admire the superb organization of Austen's novels and her masterful skill in revealing the tragicomedy of life in a mundane and narrow plot.

I know Jane Austen in 1940, and I went with my mother to see the movie "The Bird", starring Lawrance Oliver and Greer Garson, the hottest stars in Hollywood at the time, and that's actually based on Jane. Based on Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice. Then in 1946, I went to St. John's University High School, and the English textbook I took was Pride and Prejudice

In the early autumn season, make a cup of Longjing tea, lazily sit on the rattan chair of Zhanbi Building, the autumn layer outside the window is deep, the autumn rain is dripping and whispering, the autumn, the prosperity is shaken down, and a few traces of red in the lake are drenched, and the plump lotus is melancholy.

The lotus is no longer condensed, and the once swaying style is put away, and the beautiful face of the past is carved by the autumn wind with the vicissitudes of the years, and the autumn mood is suddenly limited.

The rain poured out quickly and slowly, but the He's listening was always calm, calm and calm. The skinny and low-hanging lotus, as if he understood Qiu Yu's sorrow, nodded tremblingly from time to time, and gently exiled Qiu Yu from his arms into the blue lake. The wind is full of sleeves, with a little ripple at the beginning.

With the rhythm of the rain hitting the dry lotus, the background music on the West Lake is playing the erhu song "Vain Eyebrows". At this moment, I suddenly remembered a scene in the fortieth episode of "Red Dream": One day, Baoyu, who was in the middle of your life, saw a pool of dry lotus, and was quite disappointed, shouting: These broken lotus leaves are hateful, why not ask someone to pull them out. Daiyu listened to it, pouted and replied: I don't like Li Yishan's poems the most, I only love his sentence "Leave the dry lotus to listen to the sound of the rain, and you don't keep the dry lotus." When Baoyu heard this, she was stunned, and naturally she didn't let people pull out the residual lotus, and kept it for Daiyu to listen to the rain.

When I used to read Li Shangyin's poems, I only paid attention to those few sentences that the world repeatedly recited: "The body has no colorful phoenix wings, and the heart has a clear heart", "This feeling is to be recalled, but it was already lost at that time" and so on. Because of Lin Daiyu's sentence "Leave the residual lotus to listen to the sound of the rain", I suddenly found that "the straight way is lovesick, and it is not melancholy is madness", the sustenance is deep and the wording is tactful, and the obscure brushstrokes are full of a subtle and complex feeling, in fact, it is this inexhaustible situation that happens to depict the true portrayal of Lin Daiyu's subtle feelings.

In most cases, people just appreciate the vigor of the small lotus and the freedom when the dragonfly stands on the lotus; Appreciate the romance of the red lotus and white lotus in the depths of the lotus; Or admire the huge canopy of the lotus condensed by the morning dew, and who would appreciate these dilapidated dry lotuses?

The dry lotus is lonely, although they have also woven colorful dreams, but most of them left the splendor and passion to yesterday, and engraved the gloom and vicissitudes in the heart of the dry lotus. In this season, in such an atmosphere, there is often a thought in my heart: life is like a lotus, there will always be a time to dry, but after hard work, pay, still have no regrets. Even if it's a residual load.

A silent abandonment, giving up a favorite but no fate; to give up some kind of invested but unrewarded feelings; to give up some kind of spiritual expectation; At this time, there will be a kind of sadness, but this sadness does not prevent you from starting again, relistening the music in a new time and space, and telling the story again! Because it is a natural goodbye and abandonment, it is full of detachment, and therefore sad and beautiful! There was a feeling that I wanted to make it forever. It took many years to find that it had faded away. Then I understood: What we hold in our hands is not necessarily what we really have; What we have is not necessarily what we really engrave in our hearts! In fact, many times in life, you need to consciously give up!

There are so many good things in the world. For the beauty that we don't have, we have been yearning and pursuing. In order to obtain, to be busy. In fact, what you really need is often not understood until many years have passed, and you don't even know what to do for the rest of your life! And for the beauty we already have, we have a worry and worry because of the experience of often gaining and losing. The sigh of the sunset, the troubles of the flowers blooming and falling, and the unhappy life because when we have it, we may be losing, and when we give up, we may be regaining. In fact, we cannot be absolutely sure of everything. If you deliberately chase and own, it will be difficult to get out of the misunderstanding of gains and losses. Therefore, life needs to be sublimated into a quiet and detached spirit. Those who understand know how to give up, those who are true understand the sacrifice, and those who are happy know how to detach!