Reading Changes Lives – Wang Xiaobo's "Golden Age"

Two days ago, I brushed Wang Xiaobo's "Golden Age" again, and I remember that this novel was recommended by my friend Ding Zong more than twenty years ago. When we met in a small way, we felt sorry for each other and had great idealism in our hearts. One day, several single men drank together, and after three rounds of drinking, Ding always blurted out to me: I touched YJ with my left hand, pinched my ass with my right hand, and I manipulated the world and manipulated myself. He said that the poem was written by Wang Xiaobo. At that time, I was in the confused years of life, and my mind was full of dreams of becoming a poet. This poem is shocking and overwhelmed, as if a lightning bolt crossed the barren wasteland, making me fall at once, and it turns out that writers can write shocking poems! Because of this poem, I met Wang Xiaobo and immediately began to read "The Golden Age". 每个人心中都有属于自己的黄金时代，‬眼里闪耀‬着‬星辰‬，心里‬拥抱‬着‬太阳。

"Golden Age" tells the story of the absurd young generation of intellectuals, the protagonist Wang Er and the female doctor Chen Qingyang's love-hate entanglement. 王二诙谐有趣、玩世不恭，率性而活，不沉溺时代‬恐惧‬悲戚‬。 陈清扬‬敢爱敢恨‬，奋不顾身‬‬。 The writing is innocent, natural and smooth, and the protagonist is extremely affectionate, contributing to the classic character image of Chinese novels. 在那个全民‬迷失‬，假大空‬的时代中，王小波笔下的性就如同生命本身，真实、健康、干净，蓬勃又绚烂。 The whole work is full of rational irony, playful language, logical absurdity, tracing back to the search for freedom in special times. Personally, I think that cai he, the protagonist of Taiwan's first online novel" "The First Intimate Contact", has the shadow of Wang Er and Chen Qingyang, and Wang Er has the shadow of the unruly monk in Jin Yong's novel. 经典永‬流传‬。

《黄金时代》的‬创作‬背景‬是‬知青‬年代‬，王小波没有像众多作家那样写成知青的苦难史，相反选择了另外一种独特的表现方式。 Use human instincts to write about the love and sorrow of absurd times. 特殊时期的爱情像美好的童话，全书流淌着人本真的‬自然而然的温情。 这点在国内作家中尤为珍贵‬。 中国特殊的国情和历史背景，默认‬‬写作的意义必须上升到崇高，上升到教育意义。 就连主流曲艺把新时代的相声都定性为：教育‬观众‬含着泪微笑。 这也算是这个时代的另一种‬荒诞。 The only writers in China who can maintain a frank nature are Wang Xiaobo, Ah Cheng, and Wang Shuo.

本书夺人眼球的是漫山遍野的，随心随性的性爱场景，灿烂美好，闪耀着人性之光，让人心潮澎湃并‬叹为观止。 Sex is tacit understanding of each other, a great rebellion, a head-on blow to an absurd age. For example: "Chen Qingyang said that on the Zhangfeng Mountain, she rode on me, and her eyes were extremely wild, and it was all gray rain and fog. Suddenly I felt very lonely, very lonely. That time she was lying in the cold rain, and suddenly felt that every pore had entered the cold rain. She felt sorrow coming from it, and she could not break it. Like Winston and Julia in 1984, two spiritually independent intellectuals comfort their hearts with love, finding themselves in the gray totalitarian era. Sneaky sex is sadly and wittily described as "great revolutionary friendship." The heroine Chen Qingyang was the most perfect female image in my heart at that time, naïve and spontaneous, daring to love and dare to hate. Whether it is to take the initiative to start, to produce love, not to be afraid of power or to withdraw from the world, it can be in line with the extremes of women. Remember Goethe's famous saying: The eternal woman leads us up. 诚如所言‬。

我们每个人都是时代的缩影，活着是件艰难的事情，但在活着的过程中保持‬自我‬是对抗生活的利器。 书中‬的‬一段话‬真是‬成长‬的‬箴言‬：“那一天我二十一岁，在我一生的黄金时代，我有好多奢望。 I want to love, I want to eat, and I want to turn into a half-light and half-dark cloud in the sky in an instant. Later, I learned that life is a slow process of being hammered. As people grow older, their extravagant hopes disappear day by day, and they eventually become like cattle that have been hammered. ”年轻的时候我们不会明白这些，但随着时间的流逝，逐渐变得麻木‬、认命‬，乃至‬痛彻心扉‬。 I wish I was always young and always in tears.

王小波‬的‬词句‬‬充满‬诗意‬，‬：“我只愿蓬勃生活在此时此刻，无所谓去哪，无所谓见谁。 The places I'm going to are hometowns I've never met. What was before is now is now. I can't choose how to live and how to die; but I can decide how to love and how to live. "Writing poetry is my big secret, and it's an experience similar to sex: inspiration is like a climax, and writing on paper is like XJ." These sentences, abound in the text, make people sigh and can't stop. 按李银河所言‬：王小波是浪漫骑士，行吟诗人。

Feng Tang commented on Wang Xiaobo: "Articles need to be lonely, articles have been hated since ancient times, living in a low place, living on the edge, in order to be able to stay awake if they are not helpless in this world." 这篇小说在苦难荒诞的背景下讲述‬人的尊严，反思个体的生存状况，向往自由，直面鲜活‬的灵魂。 生活有时真有意思，我在‬最近‬才‬发现，丁总在二十多年前对我念的那句王小波的诗并非王小波所作，“走在寂静里，走在天上，而YJ倒挂下来"，出自王小波的《三十而立》。 生活‬原来‬真‬的‬是‬荒诞‬的‬，丁总‬用‬智慧，用自己‬的‬诗句‬‬推介‬了‬《黄金时代‬》，也算‬一桩‬美谈吧‬