"White Night", written after the publication of "Waste Capital", because of the shadow of the huge controversy of "Waste Capital", resulted in this novel that was better and more beautiful than "Waste Capital" was buried, and many people did not read this novel.
The controversy of "Waste Capital" brought Great pain to Jia Pingwa's life, and he wrote "White Night" after precipitating his own mood, which has his own thoughts on life.
One of the major features of this novel is that at the beginning of the novel, there is a more magical story, as the introduction to the novel, somewhat similar to the structure of "Dream of the Red Chamber", this story is the story of "regenerating people":
A regenerated man with a yellow cancan key hanging on his chest came to Xijing City. He went directly to No. 7 Zhuzhen Street and went to unlock the lock on the door of the old lady. Because the original lock has long been replaced, the regeneration person who can't open the door directly called the milk name of Mrs. Qi "Ah Hui", and the milk name of Mrs. Qi is not known to the neighbors.
The old lady Of Qi who opened the door was a little frightened to see the regenerator, and the regenerator who was still holding a guqin in her arms said something about the young lady of Qi, and there were many privacys for the two people to do husband and wife.
Mrs. Qi cried a lot, made a stew of fresh locust flowers mixed with flour for the regeneration, and planned to take him to live at home. Mrs. Qi planned to wait for the children to return and recognize the father of the regeneration.
As a result, the children disagreed and dropped the bowls. The reason is that the youngest child is eleven years older than the regenerating man. And children who have studied materialism feel that this is superstition, and they cannot be superstitious. Not to mention that every child is also a character on the street, ren regeneration for the father, too ugly people.
Old Lady Qi's children not only did not recognize their father, but also went to the public security bureau to report the case, and the whole old lady Qi had no place to put her face and shed tears and went to the toon tree in the backyard to hang herself.
After Mrs. Qi's death, the regenerated person held the guqin, complained about it every time on the street, suffered for three days, held the violin, and set himself on fire on the street.
When the regenerated man set himself on fire, he was still playing an ancient song, and the wide brother who knew the rhythm did not remember the score, but remembered the rhythm of the song, and the rhythm was:
Ping Ping Ping Ping
Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping
The story of the regenerated man, placed at the beginning of the novel, has a bit of a taste of magic realism, but it is actually the structure of "Dream of the Red Chamber", the prophetic hint of the story to be told later in the novel, the key to understanding the story behind, of course, the key carried by the regeneration man himself, and later the opportunity coincidentally hung on the neck of the protagonist of the novel, YeLang.
What is the metaphor of the rhythm of the song that the regenerator played before leaving, "Ping
At the first sight of this arranged word, those familiar with ancient Chinese poetry know that this is the rhythm of a rhythmic poem.
From the understanding of the meaning of the word, the meaning of ping is flat, the meaning of 仄 is uneven, from the literal meaning, this law is nothing more than to say that rebirth or this life, life is nothing more than flat, bumpy.
"White Nights" is about the city life in Xijing in the 1990s. The novel begins with the life of a small character named Ye Lang. Write about his state of being, the longing and subconscious struggles that are shocked by reality. Writing about the friends around him and the big people and small people in the upper and lower networks, their frustrations, happiness, deception or mutual help... these ordinary characters seem to have magical chances between them. Maybe that's how our lives are, where chances are everywhere. Many of the characters described in the book have contradictory unity, just like the musical score played by the reborn person when he burns himself from the opening scene:
Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping Ping
In addition, Ping Shu also has the meaning of implying the intimate relationship between men and women.
Although this expression in the novel is relatively obscure, just like the writing method in "Dream of the Red Chamber", there is an obvious hint in the novel.
The heroine of the novel, Yu Bai, is a talented woman, and once she sent a rather bold couplet to her friend Ding Lin to congratulate her friend on her new marriage. This couplet is:
Cave house flower candle night, wind and rain flat people.
Yu Bai's friend Ding Lin commented: She is also too bold. Why bold, what does it mean, I believe that if you taste it carefully, you can taste it.
Wu Qingpu said: "Pingqibao is named after this, and all the people who know Pingqibao are asking what is the name of Pingqibao?" The ghost knows. Yu Bai played. The dog, raising its front paws on his shoulder, said, "Stupid! Wu Qingpu said, "You know? Yu Bai said, "You ask Ding Lin!" Ding Lin said:
"What do I know?" Yu Bai said, "You are attracting countless heroes to bend their waists, why don't you know?!" Ding Lin let out a sigh, stretched out his palm and hit it, Yu Bai flashed, hitting the dog in the face. Wu Qingpu and Ye Lang were inexplicable, more and more to ask, Ding Lin said: "I got married last year, many people sent couplets, there are 'Mandarin ducks sleeping together, dragons and phoenixes churning', there are 'wind quiet smell lotus, Yundu looks at songzhi', Yu Bai sent 'cave room flower candle night, wind and rain flat servant', only her thief brain came up with this word."
What Ping Shu implies here is the intimate behavior between men and women.
The name of the novel is "White Night", which alludes to the protagonists of the novel, Ye Lang and Yu Bai. The main line of the novel is the love-hate relationship between Ye Lang and the two women Yu Bai and Yan Ming. The male protagonist of the novel, Night Lang, is entangled between two people.
Combined with the tragic story of the Rebirth People, this actually implies that the emotions between men and women are nothing more than love and hate.
Compared with "Waste Capital", "White Night" is its own characteristics in terms of storyline and character shaping and novel expression methods, and it is a very readable novel, but this novel that is optimistic in the academic community has been snubbed in the readership, which is a pity.