Love, is Tai Chi - take you to read "Butterfly Dream"

If I were only given one chance to recommend, which novel would I recommend? I asked myself this question. Maybe I wouldn't hesitate to name it, and that would be Butterfly Dream. It is a novel written by the British writer Daphne Du mullier, published in 1938. The Chinese translation once had two other names, "Lubecca" or "Rebecca". There are also film adaptations of the same name and musicals, which I watch online. The director of the film is the famous Hitchcock, his first film, did not shoot the kind of tension and suspense in the novel, which is the innate deficiency of light and shadow to the text, can not blame the director, so the quality of the film is still OK, after all, the casting is amazing. Speaking of musicals, the praise is booming, and if you don't have the patience to chew the book down and search for musicals to see, it is also excellent. A German made by the British wrote a story that takes place in France, a wonderful experience, is there? It's like a Zhejiang person telling you a story that a Yunnan person told me about what happened in the cornfield in northeast China. How to think and how to think, there is a kind of romance that travels through time and space. I first read the book in 1998, when the Chinese translation was Butterfly Dream, when Nineveh was still a little cute. The title of the book is so beautiful, little I am full of longing to see a sweet and pure beautiful love story, I did not expect to be hit head-on. Eerie, terrifying, tangled, depressing... The novel gives me the feeling that this unpleasant atmosphere is created from beginning to end. Seeing the end, I came to the conclusion: love ~ how to be so ~ scary to death! Don't talk about love, don't talk about love, it's really hard! The young psychology left a shadow. There was also a feeling, a trance that felt that it was another version of Jane Eyre. The male protagonist, Maxim, is rich and handsome, lives in a luxurious mansion, and is newly widowed. Typical Diamond King old five-person set. However, when he was distracted on the Côte d'Azur of Monte Carlo, he inexplicably proposed to a twenty-one-year-old girl who had recently become acquainted, fatherless, motherless, homeless, and unassuming, resembling a rich maid. At this point in the story, are you looking forward to the prince and the princess living a happy life from then on, Cinderella-like story? This girl who was proposed to marry was also looking forward to it. Originally, this brief acquaintance was the first time she had a strong affection for Maxim, but she never expected that her love would respond. She felt that Maxim and she were from a completely different world, that they were not beautiful, rich or talented, and that they were not worthy of him at all. Feeling overwhelmed by happiness, she couldn't wait to fantasize about living with her beloved man at Mandeli Manor, which she had only seen from postcards as a child. But who knows that sadism will begin right away! When she came to Mandeli Manor, she saw the life of high society that she had never seen before, but everything was far from what she imagined. Mandley's housekeeper is the one brought in from her mother's house by Maxim's ex-wife, Rebecca, and is a die-hard loyalist. The housekeeper stumbled, set traps to frame her, and kept reminding her that Rebecca was so beautiful and clever that only Rebecca was worthy to be Manderley's mistress, with the aim of destroying her. The housekeeper's tricks succeed, and she feels like she's living in an environment where rebecca's ghosts are everywhere, and sees That Maxim is silent every day and never shows warmth to her. Low self-esteem, bitterness, and despair arose, and she concluded that Maxim was also obsessed with Rebecca. The reversal of the story is the revelation of the cause of Rebecca's death. Rebecca's body was accidentally found, and Maxim was suspected and went to court. A little overwhelmed, Maxim confessed to her. It turned out that Maxim was not so gloomy every day because he loved Rebecca deeply and could not forget it, but he hid a shocking secret in his heart. Maxim hated his beautiful, intelligent and capable wife, but lived a daily life of debauchery, making up one woman after another in a green hat for him, and finally unable to bear to shoot her, and then create an accident. Knowing the truth, she became unusually brave, and she stood firmly with Maxim, giving him support and courage. Maxim was lucky not convicted. The heartbroken butler burns Mandley, and in the seeming disillusionment, the love of the hero and heroine is reborn. The ending is also a fire, so it is very similar to the story of Jane Eyre! I was reading this story, why was it so upset? Because there is no sweet love in this story, only all kinds of pain caused by love. I haven't been sweetened yet, it's over! Moreover, what makes me even more depressed is that from the beginning to the end, it is impossible to determine who the heroine of the book is. Is the "I" in the book the heroine? Look at the names of ex-wives that are used in the titles of the books, and you say that "I" is the protagonist? The novel takes "I" as the perspective, and from beginning to end, "I" does not even have a name. There is no name in the appearance, and later because she married the male protagonist, she had a code name of "Mrs. Derwent", and it was "New Mrs. Derwent". Because she is a continuation. Rebecca, the ex-wife of a dead male protagonist, does not appear at all, but is everywhere like a ghost, suffocating "me". When readers read novels, they are always accustomed to substitution, and I am "I", which is the most natural substitution. So, I was really angry, I felt that "I" was too unfortunate, and I was upset for "me". On the eleventh of this year, I had nothing to do and turned out this book again. The sun and the moon pass through the day, and the rivers travel to the earth. The little cute of that year has come to middle age after the destruction of the years. With my current experience and state of mind, I will read this book again, and then look at the love of "me", but I have another experience and understanding. Love, what is it? I thought of Tai Chi. The I Ching says, "Tai Chi gives birth to two instruments", that is, one yin and one yang, like love. The "I Ching" was first imagined by Fu Xishi, which is called Bagua, and later King Wen of Zhou developed sixty-four gua, and then confucius's Confucius "Yi Chuan", which is "Ten Wings". No matter how many gua, it is one yin and one yang, which means that tai chi contains two kinds of forces, one positive and one negative, and these two forces are yin and yang, yin and yang are mutually generated, mutually transformed, and endless. This can be used to explain the topic of love. Why is it said that all love is in Tai Chi? When we love, what does it bring? If it is true love, it will involuntarily continue to question, suffer from gain and loss, and then give birth to jealousy and pain. These are all born out of love, all by-products of love. The I Ching also tells us that everything in this world is imagined and uncertain, including yin and yang. What do you mean? That is to say, the bitter love or non-love that you are suffocating in your heart may be illusory, don't add too much drama to yourself, directly ask, eh, who is it, do you love or not love? Love to answer not to answer, anyway, after getting the answer, you decide whether to move forward or retreat, are simply crisp, life is short, where so much tangled time comes from!