39 years ago today, on May 11, 1986 (April 3, 1986 lunar calendar), Professor Xia Chengtao of "Generation Ci Zong" passed away. "Generation Ci Zong" Xia Chengtao On May 11, 1986, Professor Xia Chengtao, a famous ci scientist in our country, passed away in Beijing due to illness. Mr. Xia Chengtao wrote Qu Chan, his late name Qu Beard, born in Wenzhou, Zhejiang in 1900. Graduated from Wenzhou Normal School in 1918. Before liberation, he served as a professor at Hangzhou Zhijiang College of Arts and Sciences and Zhejiang University. After liberation, he served as a concurrent researcher at the Institute of Literature of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, director and researcher of the Language and Literature Research Office of the Zhejiang Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; editorial board member of "Literary Research" magazine, editor-in-chief of "Ci" magazine, and consultant of the Chinese Tang Dynasty Literary Society. He served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference of Zhejiang Province and a director of the Chinese Writers Association. Mr. Xia Chengtao, who is known as the "master of ci studies", specializes in ci studies around the age of 30, and has played a significant role in the development of ci studies in our country. On the one hand, he inherited the strengths of Ci studies in the past dynasties, and on the other hand, he made many pioneering and innovative efforts in traditional Ci studies. He studied the word body, word music, word rhythm and word history with a realistic attitude, which greatly expanded the field of Ci studies and made outstanding contributions to the scientific, systematic and theoretical track of Ci studies. Among the nearly 10 million-word works that embody Mr. Xia Chengtao's lifelong efforts, there are nearly 30 published Ci monographs, more than 100 uncollected papers, and there are still many kinds of works to be published. Among them, "Chronology of Ci People in Tang and Song Dynasties", "A Series of Ci in Tang and Song Dynasties", "Chronicle of Jiang Baishi Ci", etc., are all rare masterpieces since Ci Studies. He also created a large number of poems, which are represented as "Xia Chengtao's Poetry Collection" and "Tianfeng Pavilion's Poetry Collection", and wrote the unique "Tianfeng Pavilion's Poetry Diary". Mr. Xia Chengtao's academic achievements have also been highly praised internationally. For more than 60 years since teaching, Mr. Xia has been good at rewarding talents and supporting them to advance. Tao Li Door Wall, Ji Ji Duosi. However, he "but open the atmosphere is not a teacher", and never regarded himself as a teacher. Those who came from Xia's sect were deeply blessed by him but not limited, and some were able to develop independently in academia. Mr. Xia is a tutor who wholeheartedly cultivates talents for the motherland. Foreign scholars who study Chinese classical poetry have come all the way to ask him for advice. Today his students are all over the country and abroad.