Page 1 About the Author
Zhao Shuli (September 24, 1906 – September 23, 1970), formerly known as Zhao Shuli, was a modern novelist, people's artist, and founder of the Yam Egg Sect. He was a member of the editorial board of QuYi and People's Literature, a deputy to the Eighth Congress of the Communist Party of China, and a deputy to the First, Second and Third National People's Congresses.
Born on September 24, 1906 to a poor peasant family in Qinshui County, Jincheng City, Shanxi Province, he was admitted to the Fourth Normal School of Changzhi in Shanxi Province in the summer of 1925 and began to write new poems and novels. In 1937, he joined the Communist Party of China and threw himself into the revolution. After liberation, he successively worked in publications such as Workers' Daily, Rap Singing, Quyi, and People's Literature, and returned to Jincheng, Shanxi province in 1964.
Zhao Shuli's hometown is in Weichi Village, Jiafeng Town, Qinshui County, southeastern Jinxi, Shanxi Province. Since 1912, his grandfather has taught him to recognize and write, and to recite some feudal or religious moral maxims such as the "Three Character Classic" and "Hundred Family Names". So for a long time in his adolescence, it was still the orthodoxy of feudal etiquette that occupied his mind.
In the winter of 1922, Zhao Shuli married a woman surnamed Ma in the neighboring village of Zhangjiashan. This Ma family girl was a woman who guarded the feudal women's way, one year older than Zhao Shuli, tall and strong. At the beginning of his marriage, Zhao Shuli's mind was still the same as that of the husband for the wife, in order to maintain the etiquette of the discipline, he often put up the shelf of a manly husband to ask the wife to obey, and sometimes went to the mother to complain, using the mother-in-law to suppress the daughter-in-law.
After graduating from high school, Zhao Shuli successively went to school and taught in other places, and his wife took care of housework at home, which was much toiled. In the spring of 1929, Mrs. Ma died of illness at the age of 24. Mrs. Ma had a son, named Dahu, and his scientific name was Zhao Guangyuan. Zhao Shuli's second wife, Guan Lianzhong, has lived with Zhao Shuli for 38 years, and they have supported each other in the wind and rain. Guan Lianzhong is not only a good wife and mother in Zhao Shuli's family, but also a well-deserved confidant of the writer.
In 1932, Zhao Shuli married Guan Lianzhong. Before marriage, the two did not know each other, and after marriage, they also gathered less and more. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhao Shuli was mainly engaged in the party's propaganda and education work, edited supplements to newspapers such as "Chinese" and "Yellow River Daily", and went around, almost falling off a cliff during a Japanese sweep and becoming a martyr.
In the years when Zhao Shuli threw himself into the revolution, the burden of the family's life fell on Guan Lian. She is virtuous and virtuous, and she works hard and complains. Although Zhao Shuli was not heard from as soon as he left, and his neighbors were even more controversial, the relationship was consistent, and she firmly believed that the two people in the cave had made a "white head covenant". In the winter of 1943, Zhao Shuli's father, Zhao Heqing, was captured by Japanese soldiers and brutally killed. Filled with grief and indignation, Guan Lian buried his father-in-law on behalf of her husband, and continued to support this poor family under the blows of natural and man-made disasters.
After the "Cultural Revolution" began, Zhao Shuli was branded as a "black writer", "Zhou Yang gangster", and "grandfather who wrote about intermediate figures", his works were framed as "anti-party and anti-socialist big poisonous weeds", and he himself was brutally persecuted physically. Guan Lianzhong suffered a lot for her husband, but she had no complaints. When the rebels physically attacked her and called her "the wife of the gang", she replied without showing weakness: "It is my duty to be the wife of the gang!" Sometimes, Zhao Shuli's guidance on reading and reading in the relationship allows her to read books and newspapers. In September 1970, Zhao Shuli was persecuted to death during the Cultural Revolution at the age of 64.
Page 2 Summary of contents
In 1942, in Liu Jiajunli, a mountain village in a certain anti-Japanese base area in Shanxi, Xiao Erhei, a capable and handsome militia captain, fell in love with Yu Xiaoqin, a smart and clever girl from the same village, and the people in the village all thought that this was the most suitable pair. However, Xiao Erhei's father, "Er Zhuge Ge", and Xiao Qin's mother, "Three Immortals", the two immortals in this village opposed their union.
"Er zhuge ge" is a person who raises his hands and feet to discuss yin and yang gossip, nicknamed "not suitable for planting". He said that Xiao Er Hei and Xiao Qin's lives were not right. The "Three Immortals" nicknamed "Rice Rotten" is the famous "old lady" in the village. She likes to surround herself with a group of young people, but the young people like to be with her daughter Xiaoqin, which makes the Three Immortals feel very wrong. Xiao Erhei's child seemed like fresh fruit to the Three Immortals, but unfortunately, with one more little celery, he didn't have his own share.
Therefore, she found a retired officer with a dead wife for Xiaoqin, accepted a lot of bride price, and said that this was a marriage in a previous life. "Er Zhuge Ge" also found the next eight- or nine-year-old girl for Xiao Erhei as a child bride. But the two young people in love did not recognize it. Xiao Er Hei said to his father, "If you want to raise you, I don't want to." Xiao Qin threw the bride price received by her mother to the ground and said to her mother, "I don't care!" Whoever receives other people's things will go with them! ”
The village bully Jin Wang's brothers disguised themselves as actively mixed into the village government, and Xingwang was elected as the director of the Armed Forces Committee, Jin Wang was elected as the village political committee, and even Jin Wang's wife was elected as the chairman of the Women's Rescue Association. The affairs of the village were almost dispatched by the two of them, and although everyone hated him to the bone, no one dared to say half a word, and they were afraid that they would not be able to overthrow them and suffer losses themselves. Jin Wang has long coveted XiaoQin's beauty, but since touching Xiao Qin's nail, he has a grudge in his heart and always wants to try to avenge it.
One night, Xiao Er Hei and Xiao Qin met in the brick kiln outside the village to discuss registering in the district the next day. They quietly followed, holding the lovers both in an attempt to falsely accuse them. Xiao Erhei was not afraid at all, he was righteous, because he "inquired about the comrades in the district, and people said that as long as men and women themselves were willing, they could go to the district, and no one else could be the master." Sure enough, as soon as they arrived at the district, the two people were released, but the two Jinwang brothers were detained, and the district had long heard that they were doing evil deeds, not things.
The two immortals were also passed on, and "Er Zhuge Ge" desperately begged The District not to let Xiao Er Hei and Xiao Qin marry, saying that the wrong fate was a major event in a lifetime. However, now this set of old superstitions is becoming more and more unprepared, and after the education of the leaders, the "Second Zhuge Ge" had to put away the set of yin and yang gossip. When the "Three Immortals" came to the district, there was a dramatic scene: her old goblin-like fancy dress attracted the crowd's onlookers, and she was so embarrassed that she was eager to find a seam to drill into. Shame is still immaculate, and naturally there is no longer any concern for opposing the marriage of children. Xiao Er Hei and Xiao Qin were happily married. The two "immortals" also have new nicknames: the three immortals are called 'Changshi Marriage', and the second Zhuge is called 'Fate is wrong'.
Page 3 Background of writing
"Little Two Black Marriage" was written in May 1943 and is based on the countryside of Taihang Mountain. At that time, the "land reform" had just begun, and the landlords took advantage of the ignorance and feudal superstition of the peasant masses in a vain attempt to obstruct the "land reform." In order for the "land reform" to proceed smoothly, it is necessary to oppose feudal consciousness and eliminate ignorant thinking. Based on the above background, "Little Two Black Marriage" shows a strong sense of concern for the times, although it is based on rural daily life and family marriage as the theme, but it contains sharp realistic pertinence. Its revelation of rural problems has also become an apocalyptic to rural life.
The novel depicts the story of a young man and woman in the Liberated Area during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression who, in pursuit of freedom of marriage, broke through the feudal tradition and the obstruction of their conservative parents, and finally married. Through the contrast between these two pairs of peasants with diametrically opposed ideological concepts, the novel reveals the shackles of the feudal remnants of the old customs in the countryside at that time on people's ideological behavior, as well as the conflicts and changes in consciousness between the new and old generations, explains the importance of carrying out democratic reform and changing customs, and at the same time praises the power of democratic power and reflects the major changes in the liberated areas. The novel has a complete structure, a plot twist, a popular language, and a rich local color, creating a modern novel form of Chinese commentary.
In April 1943, the author Zhao Shuli learned from a relative of the landlord who went to the county to file a complaint that the nephew of the relative, yue Dongzhi, was the leader of the militia squad in the village, because he had a free love affair with a handsome woman named Zhi Yingxiang who moved into the mountains from Wu'an County, Hebei Province, and was persecuted to death by several bad people who controlled the village government on the "crime of corruption". After several interrogations, the county government made the case clear and punished the murderer according to law, and when Zhao Shuli went to the village where the crime occurred to investigate, he found that neither the victim's family sympathized with Yue Dong solstice and Zhi Yingxiang's "free love", but instead thought that it was not right to kill Yue Dong solstice, but it was natural to teach him a lesson, and other people in the village actually held the same argument.
At that time, the base area had just promulgated the "Law on obstructing marriage and punishing crimes," and Zhao Shuli believed that young people's free love and marriage should be supported and protected, and in order to solve this common social problem and enhance the ideological consciousness of the masses, he was determined to use Yue Dong Solstice as a prototype to stimulate people's insensitivity and indifference to the nerves of being fooled by traditional habits and to save them from the shackles of the old feudal forces. Zhao Shuli carefully conceived and wrote "Little Two Black Marriage" in May.
Page 4 Reader Comments
1. "Little Two Black Marriage" flows out of the reflection on the real society, and made great contributions to solving the problems of the times at that time. Zhao Shuli's criticism borrowed from the technique of book review, opened up a new style of book review, and achieved a form that the Chinese people liked to hear.
2. Peng Dehuai: There are few popular stories like this written from mass investigation and research.
3. Zhou Yang, former chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles: "The Marriage of Little Two Blacks" is the most outstanding work reflecting the rural struggle, and it is also a representative work of literature and art in the Liberated Areas.
4. Ou Jiajin, director of the China Mao Dun Research Association: The emergence of "Little Two Black Marriage" is a primrose that has undergone complete changes in the Chinese literary world for thousands of years.
Page 5 Quotes
1, the three fairy girls are different from everyone, although they are forty-five years old, they prefer to be an old man, the small shoes still have to be embroidered, the pants legs are still trimmed, the hair on the top door is stripped, covered with a black handkerchief, but unfortunately the official powder does not even the wrinkles on the face, it looks like donkey dung eggs are frosted on the top.
2, XiaoQin is eighteen this year, and the light and thin people in the village said that it was much better than when her mother was young. Young lads, there is nothing wrong, always want to talk to Xiaoqin. Parsley went to wash clothes, and immediately the young people also went to wash; little celery went up to the tree to pick wild vegetables, and immediately the young people also went to pick.
3, the people in the mountains were originally timid, after several months of chaos, many people died, making everyone even more afraid to come out
4. From then on, on the fifteenth day of the first month of each month, she began to rise up, and others also burned incense for her to ask for money and illness, and the incense case of the Three Immortals was set up from then on.
(To be continued)
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