Li Shoubai - Heavy Color Painting - Ju, 2005
The hardness of Shanghai women is not attacking, but defending. The scene of men and women fighting each other is a bit tragic, and a little sad... The women of Shanghai are very tough in their hearts, otherwise you will not be able to deal with the people and things in this city.
People who don't know say that Shanghainese is soft and lovely, in fact, it refers to Wu language, and Shanghainese almost specifically picks the hard ones in Wu.
Li Shoubai - Heavy Color Painting - Tender As Water, 2005
Love is almost impossible in Shanghainese. The word "like" is warmer than "love", which shows that "love" in Shanghai is real "love". In Shanghainese, chivalry is very good, it is all cut to the point, a hammer is fixed, and there is a sense of jianghu. Therefore, women who speak Shanghainese always have some chivalrous meanings, that is, they can talk to men, not about you and me, but about the truth of the world.
People who don't know also say that Shanghai women are gentle, that also refers to the Wuyue ethos, Shanghai women are the hardest in Wuyue. Their hardness is not necessarily the word attack, but in defending. You have never seen anyone more wronged than them, but not the kind that goes against the grain, but pays the price and weighs the merits and demerits. You must not regard their tears as weakness, that's the truth.
Li Shoubai - Heavy Color Painting - Sisters, 2005
Don't think that there are those few lines of plane trees, the city of Shanghai is romantic, which is all hard kung fu, brick by brick. If you sniff the wind hard, you can smell the asphalt in the wind, as well as the salty and wet taste of the seawater, and don't look at it when it blows your face, it is very feminine. Climb up the roof platform of which house, look at the city, the roughness of the city will take your eyes, the dense box of cement, the honeycomb ant nest, it is a bit of a vicious expression.
You don't have any nostalgia for those twenty or thirty years of old dreams, it's just the lights at the front desk, and behind the scenes is also this densely packed hive ant nest, hidden inside, but also gritted teeth, and the determination to rub your fists. This place is really not very poetic, and the song is also the kind of rammed song. You only have to see the lights on the construction site all night, there is no sound of the piledriver here and there, you will also be moved, there are some agitated emotions rushing into your heart.
This is the chapter of the city's genesis, and it is necessary to look at the macro. And the creeping, ant-like life on the concrete slit-like street at the bottom of the building, what kind of poetry do you want them to have?
Li Shoubai - Heavy Color Painting - "One of the Yin", 2006
The women here must be somewhat masculine, and men don't exactly see them as women. The task of the struggle is the same, to squeeze out a foothold under the densely packed roof.
Because of the same goal, they can sometimes be comrades and fight side by side; sometimes they become enemies, you live and die, and you will not stop until you reach your goal. The scene of this kind of confrontation is somewhat tragic, and some sad, because they are all small lives, in the poor horns, they can't turn around, even if they win, they can't win a few inches, but they can't lose.
Li Shoubai - Heavy Color Painting - "Trial Dress", 2006
Men in this place also don't need manliness, they have to bend over and curl up on the ground, and it's no wonder they don't treat women as women. The two sides are evenly matched, equally rogue, self-made, and no one can let anyone go.
To say that men and women are equal, this is, on the same horizon, one person half the sky. Most of the people who shouted "looking for manhood" were female students, who had read enough. Whoever comes through blood and tears is not looking for a man, but a confidant and confidant, you hold me, I hold you. To say that they are all weak, the two hearts twisted into one force, is the warmest and most romantic place in this place.
Li Shoubai - Heavy Color Painting - "Drawing Spring", 2006
Writing about Shanghai, the best representative is women, no matter how big the grievances, Shanghai has also given them a good stage to let them stretch their hands. And for characters like them who debuted on stage, the story starts from the beginning. No one is as energetic and energetic as them.
If you want to say that the story of Shanghai also has heroes, they are. In terms of the accumulation of social identity, they are destitute proletarians and therefore revolutionaries.
Li Shoubai - Heavy Color Painting - Shanghai - Alcohol, 2006
Among the women in Shanghai, middle-aged women are more representative, their fantasies have disappeared, the day of remembrance has not yet come, more action-oriented, and Shanghai is a giant of action. It is at the moment of fate that they are resolute, decisive, and meticulous, and they are their own masters. Speaking of middle age, they are only about thirty years old, which is the time when experience and energy are full. They do not have the shyness and self-congratulation of a young girl, nor do they have the same look as the elderly, and they understand that hope is in one of their own hands. They're all good.
However, they can't satisfy your romantic inner pursuits, they are too pragmatic. The survival of this place is too strong, everything is sonorous, there is no room for sublimation.
Maybe you just have to look at the big picture, looking down at the site where you work day and night, where there is a kind of passion that gathers. But it will take you time to grasp that, and now you are the day to pick it up. Collect the heat and force that are scattered in the local area and prepare for the next transcendence.
Li Shoubai, born in Shanghai in 1962, is a native of Shangyu, Zhejiang Province, and specializes in painting and paper cutting. He is currently the vice chairman of the Paper-cutting Art Committee of the Chinese Association for the Advancement of Chinese Culture, the deputy director of the Paper-cutting Art Committee of the Chinese Culture Promotion Association, a deputy to the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress, the vice chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Federation of Literature and Literature, the chairman of the Shanghai Folk Writers Association, a member of the Shanghai Artists Association, a master of Arts and Crafts in Shanghai, a visiting professor of East China Normal University in Shanghai and the Shanghai Academy of Arts and Crafts. Representative inheritor of "intangible cultural heritage" Haipai paper-cutting. His works have been exhibited all over the world and collected by major celebrity organizations around the world. He has participated in the Shanghai Art Fair for 17 consecutive years, and his works have won more than 10 gold awards, including the "Cultural Heritage Day Award" of the Ministry of Culture of The People's Republic of China and the "Mountain Flower Award" of the China Federation of Literary and Art Folk Art.
Wang Anyi, born in 1954 in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, is a female writer of contemporary Chinese literature, vice chairman of the China Writers Association, member of the 10th National Committee of the China Writers Association, and professor of the Department of Chinese of Fudan University. She is a representative writer of literary creation genres such as "Root-seeking Literature", and has authored works such as "Documentary and Fiction", "Long Hate Song", "Peach Of Death" and other works, and has won honors such as the Mao Dun Literature Award and the Flower Trail World Chinese Literature Award.
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