Reading Yu Dafu's "Spring Breeze Drunken Night"

Yu Dafu (1896-1945), formerly known as Yu Wen, young name Yinsheng, A Feng, Zi Dafu, Zhejiang Fuyang people, famous Chinese novelist, essayist, poet. Uddhav is fluent in five foreign languages: Japanese, English, German, French, and Bahasa Malaysia. In June 1921, Yu Dafu, Guo Moruo, Cheng Fangwu and others organized the establishment of the Creation Society, serving as the editor of the semi-monthly magazines "Creation Quarterly", "Creation Monthly" and "Flood", and in October of the same year, he published the first collection of vernacular short stories in the history of modern Chinese literature, "Sinking". This laid the foundation for Uddhav's important position in the new literary movement. His representative works include "Autumn in the Old Capital", "The Drunken Evening of Spring Breeze", "Past", "Chi Guihua" and so on. He used to be a classmate with Xu Zhimo.

"Spring Breeze Drunken Night" is Yu Dafu's masterpiece, and it is also a short story that I like very much, depicting the image of the intellectual youth who became the "zero surplus" during the May Fourth Movement. The "I" in the work is poor, even if he has a little talent, he cannot find a job to make a living, and he is forced to live in a dilapidated attic in the slum, where he meets the same oppressed female tobacco factory worker, and the two care for each other.

The heroine Chen Ermei works as a cigarette packer in a small tobacco factory, she is upright, kind, sincere, helpful, standing next to the machine from morning to night to do more than ten hours of work, sometimes forced to work overtime, but the remuneration is very low. In addition to eating, there is simply not enough money to pay for the house and buy clothes. Due to the early death of her father, the lack of protection from her family, the factory administrator always wants to take the opportunity to tease her, is this a family misfortune or social darkness? The good and evil sides of human nature in life are nakedly presented in front of us. However, even if the world is full of malice, Chen Ermei still has a clear heart, is not afraid of poverty and difficulties, and simply treats this devastated society, which has become the only color of the whole story. The similar situation of "I" and Chen Ermei made the two poor souls gradually approach, and the warmth of the group gradually became the sun in each other's hearts, while comforting each other, adding some vitality to the original monotonous life.

A person on the road looking at the stars from the narrow deep blue sky, slowly walking forward, while making some endless fantasies, is of great interest to my body. When I was helpless, on a drunken night of spring breeze, I would walk around and go home until dawn. ”

In fact, at this time, Mr. Uddhav was in a state of poverty, living in a slum, and the money was not enough, or even no money, but this great gentleman, without a little negative thought, still actively faced life and did not seek death, which made me admire. 在春风沉醉的晚上，他一遍又一遍地看着天空，春风应该吹来美好的气息和好运气，但是他仍处于阴沟之中，甚至于连追求爱情的‬勇气‬也不能拥有。 短暂的相遇，是美好的邂逅，两位惺惺相惜，遭遇相似的人互相爱怜，但是最终也只是过眼云烟‬。