Yú Píngbó (俞平伯) (January 8, 1900 – October 15, 1990), former name Yú Mínghéng (俞銘衡) and courtesy name Píngbó (平伯), was an essayist, poet, historian, Redologist, and critic.
Yú Píngbó's ancestry can be traced to Déqīng, Zhèjiāng. His pet name as a child was Sēngbǎo (僧寶). He was a descendant of Yú Yuè, a renowned scholar during the late Qīng period, and as such Yú Píngbó was trained in the Chinese classics from an early age. In 1915, he qualified b...
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Yú Píngbó (俞平伯) (January 8, 1900 – October 15, 1990), former name Yú Mínghéng (俞銘衡) and courtesy name Píngbó (平伯), was an essayist, poet, historian, Redologist, and critic.
Yú Píngbó's ancestry can be traced to Déqīng, Zhèjiāng. His pet name as a child was Sēngbǎo (僧寶). He was a descendant of Yú Yuè, a renowned scholar during the late Qīng period, and as such Yú Píngbó was trained in the Chinese classics from an early age. In 1915, he qualified by examination for a preparatory course at Peking University. In 1917, he married Xŭ Băoxùn (許寶馴), a gifted female scholar from Hángzhōu, and then commenced composing melodies for Kūnqŭ operas. Meanwhile, he temporarily immersed himself in the New Culture Movement, and in 1918 his first New Culture period poem Spring Waters (春水 Chūnshuĭ) was published alongside Lŭ Xùn's Diary of a Madman in La Jeunesse, becoming one of the pioneering compositions to be written in contemporary Chinese vernacular. That same year, he established with fellow...
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