Gu Foying was an influential literary figure and educator in the Republican period.In the field of literature,he was proficient in music and rhythm,and specialized in various genres such as poetry,lyrics,op-eras,novels,etc.,and wrote extensively;in the field of education,he founded the Correspondence School for Women,reformed the works of his students,published anthologies,and cultivated a large number of female writers engaged in the creation of classical poems and lyrics,which was known as the"Yuan Suiyuan of the present day"by the people of the time.