Fortress Besieged is a novel written by Qian Zhongshu. This story is mainly about a group of intellectuals in the early days of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. Fortress Besieged is a satirical novel with a unique style in the history of modern literature in China.
Fortress Besieged is divided into nine chapters, which can be roughly divided into four units. The first chapter to the fourth chapter is the first unit, which describes Fang Hung-chien's life scenes in Shanghai and his hometown (a county in the south of the Yangtze River), with Shanghai as the center. The fifth chapter can be counted as the second unit, which is "transition" or "convergence". Chapters 6 and 7 are the third unit, which mainly describes the infighting in San Lv University. Chapters 8 and 9 are Unit 4. Fang Hung-chien and Sun Roujia got married on their way back to Shanghai. The following are reading notes about the besieged city:
When, when, when? "It's already midnight shift 10. I gently closed the last page of Fortress Besieged, and my heart was calm. Night has quietly covered the whole sky. Look ahead, I don't know where there is light. Only wait silently and watch gently, I believe tomorrow will be a fine day. Fang Hung-chien, like all of us, has a dream. Young and frivolous, we can't restrain the boiling of blood and can't compromise on everything that has fallen into a rut. We always believe that only we can control our lives. So hung-chien boarded the plane to France and set off for what he thought was a new world. At the age of fourteen, I am full of confidence. Besides not reporting to the world, I brag about what I will become one day based on the sea. At that time, I was always simple and did a lot of things unconsciously. I don't understand the complexity of the world without the burden of responsibility. It is very fragile to brag about your greatness, but cry alone at night. In fact, this is a madness that every child will make, but isn't this an outbreak of life? A few years later, at the age of 27, Hung-chien took a fake diploma and was full of guilt, and set off on his way home. At the age of 27, he will still fondly think of his strict father and his disappointing loving mother. It seems that the chain of life was broken when he set foot on the deck many years ago. A few years in Paris was just a gorgeous dream, and for a moment he woke up. Hung-chien realized that when he realized that the Red Sea had passed, he realized that he could not completely break away from that invisible chain. Only three years later, when I faced the fallen leaves on the ground, I no longer had too much sadness; I don't remember what I said many years ago that I wouldn't rejoice in the snow all over the sky. It's not because it's been a long time, but because I think those vows are ethereal. I tried to practice in the past, but I found that I had to promise for a lifetime and gave up. Without the pride and unfocused persistence of youth, it is replaced by a kind of concern and understanding of reality. I wonder if the scholar ever said that every child was born with his horns and died with pebbles. Hung-chien used to smell like Miss Bao's boss around him, which also attracted Miss Su's literary grace and fragrance. Hung-chien also wanted Miss Tang to look back and smile, but he was not sure of either method, and he didn't have the courage to take the last step by letting the last wisp of smoke pass through his fingertips. Hung-chien learned to compromise. Only after a trip to San Lv University did he really realize that the world was dangerous. A little tired, Hung-chien chose to lie on Miss Sun's soft couch and rest. I have always disapproved of my parents' life. There is no love of "if you don't marry, I won't marry", and there is no tenderness of "holding your hand and growing old with your son". There are only figures who are always busy with trifles and voices who often quarrel about trifles. I have been thinking very unfilial why such two people are so willing to be bound by each other for life. In a calm sea, great winds and waves are often brewing, and the plain marriage between Hung-chien and Jou-chia is also in jeopardy. Hung-chien felt incompetent. He always thought he was the protagonist of a tragedy. He wants to vent his anger. Since he can't take it out on outsiders, he can only take it out on his wife. Jou-chia is not a bully. The contradiction between them is out of control because more people participate. Hung-chien looked at the empty hut, lost in thought. At the funeral, grandma was in tears all the time, watching her grandfather who had been with her for more than 40 years disappear behind the last door of the funeral home, and the last tear quietly fell. I have never understood that after grandpa died for many years, grandma's criticism of all kinds of infinite attachment that did not meet her vision was so harmonious that it was bitter and unpredictable. As Fortress Besieged said, "Age is an insurmountable fact in natural mileage." Once everything is separated, it's almost like the end of the world, let alone inside and outside the city. Postscript: The ancestor's clock struck with peace of mind, as if he had saved half a day, and he moved out in the dead of night to count "When should it be?" It rang six times. Six is five hours ago. At that time, on his way home, Hung-chien had to be nice to Jou-chia and persuade her not to make the couple unhappy again because of what happened yesterday. Jou-chia was at home waiting for Hung-chien to come home for dinner, hoping that he would make up with menstruation and work in her factory. This untimely timer inadvertently contains more satire and sadness about life than any language and all smiles. "It's eleven o'clock," I thought. "It's time for bed." I closed my diary.
Close the door and let the black outside penetrate into this room.
For the hero and heroine of this book, in my mind, Fang Hung-chien is just a player who has no brains, no principles, can't stand the temptation, and can be said to be a loser. And although Sun Roujia seems to be an innocent girl, a woman without a definite view, she is the most calculating person, a person with a strong explosive force in her small body. At the end of the book, after experiencing the failure of love, career and family, Fang Hung-chien lamented that he was afraid of being pursued by others when he was in a small town. When he arrived in a big city, he hated the cold, but he felt that he still respected his expression. Even a tiny bug is complacent and wants someone to put it under a microscope. The loneliness in the crowd and the desolation in the excitement make him, like many people living on this island, feel like an island without a bank. I think this is not only a portrayal of Fang Hung-chien's mood at that time, but also a true portrayal of his failed life.
In addition, I am very grateful to Qian Zhongshu, because it let me see the hypocrisy between people in society at that time. Compliments appear many times in the book. At first, I felt very dissatisfied. I thought that when people get along with each other, compliments will follow as soon as they meet. If I listened to them, I would never associate with this person. Because it reflects that this person is not honest with me. But I found such a passage in the article, which made me scoff: Gu Erqian saw Li's words and praised Li Neng for writing several styles of articles. Unexpectedly, he smiled and said to Li, "My handwriting is terrible. I instructed my students to write these films. " When I saw this, I thought, see how Gu Erqian stepped down. To my surprise, Gu Erqian did not change his face and said, "Alas, fame is bound to make a noble apprentice! Fame must make a noble disciple! " . I was really speechless at that time. I really admire Gu's social skills, and his face hasn't changed at all. I suddenly feel lucky, not at that time, and now there are few such disgusting compliments.
I watched Fortress Besieged and thought, I really admire Qian Zhongshu. His experience and knowledge are really too deep. He not only put forward modern civilization in his book, but also knew the general manners and habits of foreign diplomats and president. He still clearly remembers a tiny detail in The Scholars, as well as frequent activities in various countries, such as the British Prime Minister and even German pilots? I think Qian Zhongshu can still be a thinker. He added a lot of his own ideas to Fortress Besieged. For example, on page 25, I wrote a concept of "girlfriend", which is very similar to the concept in mathematics. What friends are there to get along with, the difference between scientists and science, the difference between ugliness in China and ugliness in the West, and so on. From this, I understand that a writer is not only good at literature, but also has a wide range of knowledge.
After reading Fortress Besieged, I have another gain-I have learned a writing technique that I have never used before. On page 3, the boy's mother saw her son messing with Miss Su when she was talking to her, so she used dashes to divert the speaker. That is, "I forgot all the books I learned in China when I had a baby-scared!" Damn it! I told you not to go. If you don't do good, you must have soiled Miss Su's clothes. " In this way, the article can be more authentic.
Finally, a digression. When I was reading Fortress Besieged, I was delighted to find a phenomenon: on page 26 1, "Hung-chien met her unnaturally and kept fiddling with the Supernorma brand four-color pencil he brought back from Germany on his desk. At this time, I immediately thought that Mr. Xia once said that Lu Xun wrote in his article that he loved to use Shunshengxiang brand manuscript paper. Isn't this very similar to Qian Zhongshu? It immediately occurred to me that when Mr. Xia was doing a Chinese reading experiment, there was an article called "Childhood Fun Rhyme", one of which was very similar to Mr. Lu Xun's "Social Play" describing the night scenery in the wheat field. At that time, Mr. Xia said that Lu Xun was like a literary tutor, and I felt the same way. Fortress Besieged, as Qian Zhongshu's most famous novel, is worthy of the name in terms of structure and writing. In particular, taking the old clock as the end of the article gives people ample room for reverie and makes people think deeply. Ms Jiang Yang said that Qian Zhongshu's infatuation made Fortress Besieged more real and dramatic. Qian Zhongshu's satire and sadness about life are more profound than any language. All his tears and smiles are contained in Fortress Besieged. I quite agree with her, don't you? I hope you can all understand.
2. Ordinary World is a million-word masterpiece created by Lu Yao, a famous writer in China. This is a novel that shows the contemporary urban and rural social life in China in a panoramic way. This book * * * three; Under the background of China from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, the author, centering on two brothers, Sun Shaoan and Sun Shaoping, created the images of many ordinary people from all walks of life at that time through complicated contradictions and entanglements. Labor and love, frustration and pursuit, pain and joy, daily life and huge social conflicts are intertwined, which profoundly shows the difficult and tortuous road that ordinary people have gone through in the historical process of the great era. The following are the reading notes of Ordinary World:
This is a novel of great significance to me, because I first read it when I was in the third year of high school, when I was facing the pressure of exams. It gave me motivation and another interpretation of literature-simplicity is truth, goodness and beauty. After many years, I picked up this thick book again, which made me smell the loess high slope again. There are a group of extraordinary people in Ordinary World. It is these extraordinary people that make up this ordinary world. After reading this book, the soul of future generations may be purified, and it may also change many of your thoughts now.
It is said that this novel has no place in the history of orthodox literature. Part of the reason may be that since the mid-1980 s, the "realistic" writing technique, which has been in the mainstream position in the literary and art circles, has begun to be severely challenged. Ordinary World is the most important long article in Lu Yao's prose. It describes the modern urban and rural life in China in a panoramic way. Through complicated contradictions and entanglements, it depicts the images of ordinary people from all walks of life represented by Sun Shaoping. Life's self-esteem, self-improvement and self-confidence, life's struggle and struggle, frustration and pursuit, pain and joy are intertwined, which makes people sad to read.
The Loess Plateau has been a land full of misery and hope since ancient times. Lu Yao was born here and grew up here. It is this barren land that created Lu Yao's character of seeking and struggling, and it is also those unforgettable life experiences that made Lu Yao love life so much and determined to complete a masterpiece before he was 40 years old: to commemorate that barren land, to commemorate that glorious era and to commemorate the unpretentious people there.
Lu Yao should be a rare hero in the literary world. He regards writing not only as a responsibility, but also as a sacred mission. Lu Yao is a person who loves life. He once wrote in his notes: "It is here that I clearly realize that I want to gamble my fate, whether it is my youth or my life. Although I won't let secular ideas finally manipulate my will, it would be deceptive to say that I didn't make any secular considerations in the meantime. There is no doubt that this work will take many years, and if there is a certain degree of harvest in the future, it will also be a comfort to the youthful blood spilled. If you fail completely, it means the failure of youth and even life. This is the best period in a person's life, and its loss should be exchanged for the most fruitful fruit-but how can this be guaranteed! You have no choice-it's a matter of fate. " In the end, Lu Yao won this life by gambling: an ordinary world fulfilled his wish, but the price was extremely heavy, and he lost his life!
I like the starting point of Lu Yao's novel-the word "ordinary". His world is ordinary, just one of tens of thousands of villages on the Loess Plateau. But Lu Yao saw the extraordinary of his hero in the ordinary. For example, Sun Shaoping, who received high school education, reached the level of ideological discussion with college students through self-study. The author endowed the role with various excellent qualities, including not setting the goal too high. In Lu Yao's world, there are ordinary people, because he described the goodness and beauty, ugliness and evil in human nature in these ordinary people. In his world, the greatest advantage of man is to realize that he is ordinary. This is best reflected in Sun Shaoping. When he got the opportunity to transfer the coal mine to the city, he chose the coal mine. This is not without his high consciousness, but his enthusiasm and attachment to the place where he worked. He chose the ordinary.
Lu Yao told us not only that long time, but also a belief and pursuit that life should have, which has remained unchanged since ancient times. This is a noisy, impetuous and moral crisis era. Everyone who still has a dream and is pursuing it should review "Ordinary World", which will let you know that although fate is so unfair and society is so unfair, as long as you persevere, work hard and go forward bravely, you can finally succeed. Everyone who is wasting his life should read Ordinary World, which will make you know how to cherish it.
Lu Yao is teaching us to forget, and forgetting makes life eternal. There is not much room for selfishness in life, and selfishness will only harm you in the end. It's selfish to follow suit. If you live like this all your life, you will eventually be buried in the loess and have no value. Lu Yao is teaching us to have an independent personality, although you may encounter loneliness. Loneliness is the only way to prove yourself in life. As long as you have a clear understanding of your ideals and face loneliness frankly, it will be the last support point for you to go forward bravely. Lu Yao is teaching us not to be a beautiful person all our lives, but to do a beautiful thing that makes people applaud. The former can only prove your wit, while the latter will witness your wonderful life.
I think each of us should watch Ordinary World and listen to those distant voices. Maybe then we will find our own direction as soon as possible in this era distorted by expanding desires, so that we won't get lost when the oil runs out?