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Ling Shuhua was born in 1904 into a family of calligraphy and painting in the ancient city of Beijing. She is a very outstanding Chinese modernist female writer.Ling shuhua has many famous short stories "The Temple of Flowers", "Women", "Little Brothers" and his collection of essays "Love mountain Dream".She was no ordinary writer, and was known abroad as "She was like speaking with clipped tongue" as she used her" special writing style "in writing English books.Therefore, through the description of the implicit disclosure and criticism of the oppression of male power in her works, she broke the contract that bound women, thus transforming into the subversion of male power. To justify the unfair status of women in society.

Ling Shuhua was also an accomplished painter. She also studied painting at the court of the Empress Dowager Cixi and became his apprentice. She is one of the few talented women in Chinese history. In many of her works there are images of her own painting, which belongs to "literati painting". The so-called literati painting is a painting method by which the painter expresses his soul, thoughts and feelings through the things in the painting. Ling shuhua's writing style is very special. In her writing, he uses both Chinese and English to describe her low-key and peripatetic lifestyle.

And in 1924, Ling met Chen Yuan in Beijing. At the time, Chen yuan was an English professor at Peking University and an influential literary critic. The year after they met, Chen rose to fame in a debate with lu Xun, a famous Chinese writer. Through Chen Yuan, Ling shuhua got to know many famous writers of the time, such as Shen Congwen.

She is also known as a writer of the new boudoir style. Strong feminism is dominant in her creation and dominates her creative thinking. Sensitive social and political issues often arise in her work. Her work was also criticized. After the contemporary feminism re-examines Ling Shuhua's works, they also make a conclusion of the phenomenon of denying Ling Shuhua's works. Most of the reasons come from sexism and morality. Ling shuhua's father also revealed that " he doesn't think girls need to learn much ". It also expresses the role and social status that women played in the family at that time.

In her 1988 article Moral Bargain: Reading Three Stories of Ling Shuhua, Zhou Lei mentioned the reasons why Ling chose such a subject. Under the social atmosphere at that time, most women were buried with patriarchy in the process of growing up, and they needed to obey their fathers' decisions. It also leaves in mind that women need to make sacrifices at home. Even though Ling Shuhua was already a little famous in the literary world at that time, she never showed her father what she had written, because she knew that her father did not like her writing in vernacular Chinese, which was also a manifestation of patriarchy.

Ling shuhua has many famous short stories " The Temple of Flowers ", " Women " , " Little Brothers " and his collection of essays " Love mountain Dream ". And Ling Shuhua is best known for her autobiography, written in China in 1930 , Anicent Melodies. She was no ordinary writer, and was known abroad as " She was like speaking with clipped tongue " as she used her " special writing style " in writing English books.

Ling is best known for her autobiography, "Ancient Melodies" , in which her distinctive writing style and " Chinese-style " English was discovered by Virginia Woolf before they were published. Ling Shuhua's English writing grammar is difficult for foreigners to understand but very distinctive. In Woolf's letter to Ling, Woolf suggested that Ling continue to insist on her own free writing style , which should approximate the Chinese language in general meaning. Only in this way can the article retain as much Chinese flavor as possible. At Woolf's suggestion, Ling completed his autobiography.

Since his father was a Confucian scholar, Ling shuhua also learned classical Chinese as a child. Most of her writing, though , uses vernacular Chinese that her father dislikes. But what is interesting is that she did not give up the classical culture she had studied for many years because of learning the vernacular Chinese, and this writing feature is especially evident in her White Birch. The book has a strong Chinese classical atmosphere, and readers appreciate Ling Shuhua because of this work. But even such excellent works will be personified and feminized because the author is a woman.