◎Sun Li：Founder of “Lotus Lake School”

Sun Li (1913-2002) was born in Yaocheng Village,Anping County,Hengshui.He started to write during his middle school.In 1936,he taught in a primary school near Baiyangdian Lake.In the winter of 1937,he joined the People’s Self-defense Army set up by Lyu Zhengcao.In 1938,he was transferred to the Academy of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression to serve as an instructor at the Central Hebei Military Region.In 1939,he was appointed as the editor of Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei News Agency.He went to Yan’an in 1944 and became a graduate student of Lu Xun Institute of Literature and Arts.He published the famous short stories Lotus Lake and Reed Flowers Pool in Jiefang Daily,which caused a sensation.Since 1949,he had served as the editorin-chief of the Literary & Art Weekly of Tianjin Daily,cultivating a group of writers of the Lotus Lake School.He once served as Director of China Writers Association and Vice Chairman of Tianjin Branch of China Writers Association.Sun Li’s works are represented by the scattered collection of novels,Stories of Baiyangdian Lake.Among them,the short novels Lotus Lake and Instructions are well-known in the history of Chinese modern literature,and regarded as the representative works of the Lotus Lake School in the literary and artistic circles.(https://www.daowen.com)