On this day 121 years ago, on December 24, 1904 (November 18, 1904 lunar calendar), Chinese linguist Lu Shuxiang was born. Mr. Lu Shuxiang was born on December 24, 1904 in Danyang County, Jiangsu Province. He graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages of National Southeast University in 1926. In 1936, he went to study in the Department of Anthropology of Oxford University and the Library of the University of London. After returning to China in 1938, he served as an associate professor of the Department of Literature and History of Yunnan University, and later served as a researcher at the Institute of Chinese Culture of West China Union University, a researcher at the Institute of Chinese Culture of Jinling University, and a professor of the Chinese Department of Central University, as well as an editor of the Enlightened Bookstore. After liberation, from 1952, he served as a researcher of the Institute of Linguistics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (changed to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1977), a member of the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the deputy director, director, and honorary director of the Institute of Linguistics. From 1978 to 1985, he served as the editor-in-chief of "Chinese Language" magazine, and from 1980 to 1985, he served as the president of the Chinese Language Society. Since 1980, he has been an honorary member of the American Language Society. In 1987, he received an honorary doctorate in literature from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In April 1994, he was appointed as a foreign academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is a representative of the 3rd to 7th National People's Congress, a In May 1983, he used the 60,000 yuan he had accumulated for many years as the fund for the prize money of young linguists of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Mr. Lv Shuxiang is a great master of linguistics in our country. He has been engaged in language teaching and language research tirelessly for more than 70 years, covering a wide range of fields such as general linguistics, Chinese studies, writing reform, Chinese teaching, writing and writing style, dictionary compilation, and ancient book collation. Comment: a great master of linguistics in our country.