Shandong writer Feng Deying died on the morning of January 17, 2022, at the age of 86.
I only saw this news today.
Last year, because I cared about an Internet celebrity in Shandong, I became interested in things and things in Shandong, so I carefully read "Bitter Cauliflower" from beginning to end.
After that, I found out the "Spring Flowers" that I had at home before. I had read this novel once before, and I was not impressed. After that, I found the new version of the "Mountain Chrysanthemum" book hoarded from Jingdong, and it was very difficult to read. It doesn't feel as amazing as "Bitter Cauliflower".
Later, from the online used bookstore, the author's last two novels" "Blood-stained Land" and "Clear Sky" were found, and I personally felt that these two novels could only belong to the writing level of literary youth.
The book "Bitter Cauliflower" has been kept at home for a long time, but it is strange that I have not read it seriously. When I read it before, I felt that the pearls were round and jade, full of incense, and I was reluctant to swallow it in one bite, so I put it aside after reading half of it.
The earliest thing I knew about this book was at my cousin's house, and he took out only fragmentary loose pages, or traditional characters, and when he read it, it was like reading a forbidden book, because on that broken page, it was the sensational love history of Xingli's mother. At that time, I was still young, and my heart fluctuated, my body was full of irritation, and my writing was too sexy.
Even if you read "Bitter Cauliflower" today, you will still feel the sexiness of the characters in the novel. This should be part of Feng Deying's strong impact and charm.
In fact, the sexy taste in Feng Deying's novels has always run through all his novels. Until his last two novels, "The Land of Blood" and "Clear Sky", people will still read with rapid heartbeat and imagination. For example, in these two novels, the young daughter-in-law who has lost her husband, in order to have a child, "borrows seeds" from the returning soldiers she meets in the inn, and later the daughter-in-law takes the initiative to ask to marry the father of the soldier who did not cooperate with her to "borrow seeds". There was also a young widow who, while working as a nanny, fell in love with the family's son, and after returning to her hometown, she lied that she was married and insisted on giving birth to a child.
In Feng Deying's novels, there is a strong tendency to life and desire, and this tendency that originates from human instinct ultimately gives the reader a "sexy" tendency.
So, what is the private life of a writer who can render the words and plots in the novel so sexy?
I have to regret to encounter an embarrassment, that is, the report of Feng Deying's personal life is so miserly.
The author can only see a girlfriend he met in the army in all of Feng Deying's love history, and later, this girlfriend did not say goodbye, married someone else, leaving the author with a hidden pain.
This love history was written by Feng Deying into the last two novels "Blood-Stained Land" and "Sunny Sky", and in fact, in Feng Deying's previous "Bitter Cauliflower", we can also see the shadow of this love, which is also a public love history of Feng Deying that we can see, which also helps us to understand why Feng Deying, who was in his twenties at the time, was able to write women so transparently in "Bitter Cauliflower".
All of Feng Deying's novels are imprinted with a deep family genealogy, and the character structure in each novel is transferred to the composition of his brothers and sisters. This is also a spectacle, and it also proves that literary creation is, in a sense, an autobiography.
It has to be said that his debut work "Bitter Cauliflower" has reached a height that he himself cannot reach. The simple words in the novel, the Europeanized language style, and the sharp revelation to the point seem to be difficult to find in his later novels, especially the last two novels, which have evolved into a redundant and unobstructed category of popular novels, so that any reader will still cherish the insurmountable spiritual essence laid in "Bitter Cauliflower".
Feng Deying poured all his talents into his first work, "Bitter Cauliflower", which profoundly influenced Chinese literature and Chinese readers, and his future works still maintain a keen and fiery sexy intensity, but his narrative technique has been difficult to match the wave of literature to cover the tide of the wave, and can not attract people's attention.
But the sexy nature of his novels, which was later passed down to Mo Yan's "Red Sorghum", still controls the development and forward path of Shandong literature.
In fact, Feng Deying itself is a big book, a fascinating and unexplored tome. The author has tried to get close to Feng Deying's soul and secrets, drawn useful nutrition from it, and made a little speculation about the axe of the banmen, but Feng Deying's journey of discovery and promotion is still not endless, and it is worth us to continue to explore and search.