Jia Ping has concave a new book, this pure urban novel named "Temporary Sitting" is the second novel to write about urban themes after "Waste Capital". Jia Pingwo has always written about rural themes, and the background of his writing is mostly in Xi'an, because he said that after living in Xi'an for forty years, everything here is too familiar to be separated from his life.
Xi'an has since had the title of "Waste Capital" in Jia Pingwa's pen, which sounds like a synonym for decadence and depravity, which is not quite in line with this thousand-year-old capital, but when you think about it, you feel that it can explain everything. Because, here, the people, the buildings, the ideas, are open and rebellious. With the old feelings of the ancient capital and the vitality and tolerance of the new metropolis, the combination of these two contradictions has formed the current Xi'an City.
In fact, if you talk about cities, which city is not like this? On the one hand, we keep our feelings, and on the other hand, we constantly landmark new ideas. I always feel that people can't keep up with this era, and I feel that this era can't catch up with people's thoughts. Everything is going on in contradictions...
The only male protagonist in "Temporary Sitting" is the writer Yi Guang, like a treasure in the Red Chamber, surrounded by a group of beautiful and golden mature women, of course, Jia Pingwo is reluctant to call this group of women Jinling Twelve, thinking that their lives are not good. So they called this group of women "Xijing Twelve Jades", because each of them hung a piece of jade given to them by Hai Ruo, the owner of the tea house, who was the eldest sister among them, but not the richest, but the most righteous.
The appearance of the writer Yi Guang is also very interesting, and his studio is in a building behind Hai Ruo's Temporary Tea House. The house is full of antiques, there is a fifteen square meters of study called "ShiyunTang", friend Fan Bosheng came to the door to find him, obviously heard a sound in the house, he knocked on the door and there was no sound, he went downstairs to wait, and after a while he saw a graceful and colorful woman walking outside, and when he knocked on the door again, the door opened. In the daytime, the curtains were drawn in the room, the lights were turned on, and there were many more antiques in the room, and then a fat man came to the door to find Yi Guang to write a picture.
Yi Guang stood in front of the desk, spread out the rice paper, opened the brick table, and the brush was dipped in ink and dripping. Q: "Did you bring all the money?" The fat man said: I brought ninety thousand. Put a paper bag on the desk and push it in front of Yi Guang. Yi Guang put down his pen and said, "That won't work." Has it already been given to you that it is an integer? You put the money away. The fat man sweated more on his head and kept rubbing it with his hands. Fan Bosheng said: Teacher Yi's calligraphy works never bargain with people, you sweat so much. The fat man said: Poor sweat and rich oil, I know the value of Teacher Yi's calligraphy works, and I know that I don't bargain. Yi Guang covered the yantai, drew one from the cigarette box and gave it to the fat man, saying: Write it later, you smoke. The fat man twisted for a while, took out another ten thousand yuan from his pocket, still held it in his hand, and said: Too expensive, you can be less, I am from three relatives to make up a hundred thousand. Yi Guang said, "Okay, well, just two thousand less." The fat man dipped in spit and counted from ten thousand to two thousand, pulled out, and put eight thousand dollars on ninety thousand. Yi Guang reopened the Yantai, dipped the brush in ink and said: Expensive is expensive, you buy and go to do promotions, projects, loans. The fat man said: This is true, people name as long as you want it. Yi Guang said, then you eat meat and I drink a soup. On the paper, a Tang poem was written and printed.
Yi Guang is good with the sisters of the tea house, and occasionally carries others to send one of the calligraphy paintings, but tells her not to be silent, and they do not know whether Yi Guang has given them calligraphy and paintings for free, of course, this also avoids the jealousy between women.
It is said that Yi Guang's calligraphy and painting will cost 100,000 yuan, and there are still many people looking for him to write, not bad money, but he has found a sister Xia Zihua to borrow 150,000 yuan before, and Xia Zihua has suffered from leukemia and has been treated in the hospital for some time, leaving behind a three-year-old son born out of wedlock and an old woman. It wasn't until Xia Zihua left that Yi Guang returned the 150,000.
Jia Pingwa has sarcasm and criticism of Yi Guang, but he also has a sentimental and righteous side, a person seems to be difficult to say whether he is black or white, everyone has a snobbish and selfish side, and there is a warm and kind side.
Yi Guang is different from Zhuang Zhidi in "Wasted Capital", because although she is good with the sisters, she has a spiritual communication that transcends the love between men and women, and pays more attention to everyone talking and chatting together, rather than just staying in the carnal desires of youth. Maybe this is the Zhuang Butterfly after the age of 50, the Zhuang Butterfly after the awakening.
Jia Pingwa felt that this "Xijing Twelve Jade" avoided the obscure name of Jinling Twelve Jade, and perhaps the fate would not be so tragic, but people's fate was always fluctuating, and the relationship between people was so fragile and vulnerable. This relationship of the "Twelve Jades of Xijing" also has a day of final disintegration.
Among these people, some of them came to Xijing from other places to work hard, and some of them came from the countryside and small counties to now come out of the way, they all live in Xijing city with a sensitive heart, want to integrate into the city, but they feel that they can't become authentic Xijing people, and a word of unintentional words from others may stab their sensitive nerves, and somehow offend them. In fact, it is just to better coexist with the city, but it can't get out of his own demons.
They work hard to live, and here they know each other, and they become a group of friends who are very good friends, called sisters, but each has experiences that cannot be ignored: divorce, unmarried children, being married by a small third, climbing a high branch, homosexuality, etc., just like the historic city of Xijing, all-encompassing.
The sisters strive to live in the city, economically independent, living freely, running their own small businesses, but they will fall into confusion, decadence, and degeneration. Sisters who seem to have a good relationship are always careful to maintain each other's self-esteem and the safe zone of self-protection.
People, once there is socialization, there will be contradictions, and even the best relationships will end the day, and gathering and dispersing is the norm of life. Relatives are like this, not to mention a group of sisters who are not too sticky. Once the profit is made, there is a map, there is a map, it will have its own suspicions, ignite the fire, the trouble will continue, and the collapse will not be far away.
Hai Ruo, who temporarily sat in the tea house, got to know a group of sisters because of the righteousness, and destroyed the tea house because of the righteousness, the sisters had inexplicable contradictions with each other, you avoided me, not as close as before, and some people's small secrets and disgraces were known by others, and they were not embarrassed to approach everyone. As a result, the former "Xijing Twelve Jades" also fell into the desolate scene of individuals going to the empty building.
For Hai Ruo, the owner of the temporary tea house, Jia Pingwo borrowed her at the end of the book to say this:
Eva said: Sister Hai is the one who weaves the net, and Sister Hai has also become the prey on the Internet. Xin Qi said: But Sister Hai is a good person, the best good person I know! Eva said that perhaps many years later, she would be a woman, a mother, a convener of sisters, a small owner who had opened a temporary tea house.
Many of the things in "Temporary Sitting" are what we see, hear, and encounter in real life. Bringing you and me together, we formed this "Portrait of the Red Chamber". For example, the terminal illness, air disaster, loan lending, collection, domestic violence, infidelity, profit-making in marriage, separation of family property, extramarital affairs, out-of-wedlock children, one-night stands, spiritual love, etc. encountered by the sisters, of course, health care, Buddhism, Zen room, antiques, tea culture, etc., are all included in Jia Pingwa's new book.
The writer Yi Guang in the book sells calligraphy and paintings, which is actually a ridicule of the self and a portrayal of the current situation of the literati's life. Different from his previous novels, the first urban theme work "Waste Capital" exaggerated the love of men and women, and the greed for desire was a kind of confusion of urban life. And "Temporary Sitting" is to extract this emotion from the previous love, pay more attention to the inner world and spiritual communication itself, they have feelings and righteousness (to their friend Xia Zihua after suffering from leukemia), economic independence (after divorce to earn a family business by themselves, but also live freely, unrestrained), and have their own hidden corners, that is a corner that belongs to the exclusive, whether good or bad, can not be said to others.
They live happily and miserably, and this happiness comes from the satisfaction of their own abilities and the satisfaction of economic returns; the misery comes from never meeting a good person on the road to love, or the pursuit of a kind of empty love.
People live a lifetime, the pursuit of life is different, there are feelings, there is wealth, there is righteousness, there is a name, but no matter which one, can not be satisfactory, nor can it win the hearts of the people, only stumbling on the road of "seeking", dividing and merging, gathering and scattering impermanence.
Just like the name of "Temporary Sitting", you and I are all pitiful guests in the world, hurrying to and fro, experiencing different experiences, but also going the same way, and we can never escape a "robbery" word.
Sit in the world, sit in a corner, sit in the moment, sit in the crowds and emptiness.
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After "Waste Capital" was banned in 2016, "Temporary Sitting" once again became the highland of Jia Ping's works, if there is any difference between the two in a deep sense, that is, "Temporary Sitting" is written more depressed, and this repression can release the emotions of the second half of the work like a flood beast.
Perhaps because when the work was published, Jia Pingwa was nearly seventy years old, and the level of looking at the problem would be deeper, with some relief and review, easily holding human nature at the fingertips.
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