Bai Xianyong's nostalgia

Some people say that the greatest achievement of General Bai Chongxi's life was not to fight on the battlefield to defend his family and defend the country, but to give birth to the son of Bai Xianyong.

Bai Xianyong's novels are hailed as the first-class masterpieces of the 20th century, the top ten Chinese novels in a hundred years, and the highest achievement of contemporary Chinese novels.

Bai Xianyong wrote in the inscription of "Taipeier": "Commemorating the parents and their troubled era." ”

The sorrow of going to the country is the strong tone of the book. Bai Xianyong's feelings of home and country are not heroic and unrestrained lonely, occasionally revealed in the text, and it is already the funeral of the older generation, looking back at the exciting years of the Xinhai years.

As Bai Chongxi's son, what he saw since childhood should be the endless rubbing of mahjong by the old masters and wives, from Shanghai to Taipei, and the stories that happened around the mahjong table.

Since he was a half-life drifter, he has seen countless sad people. Bai Xianyong also missed his hometown countless times when he studied in the United States. But where is home? The longing for Taipei is like a kind of rootless Ping, and the mainland is so strange. Or maybe he's thinking about a real China, a homeland on a cultural level.

Bai Xianyong's novel, like Zhang Ailing, is full of the shadow of "Dream of the Red Chamber". Reading "Taipei People" always feels a strong sense of nostalgia. Because the characters in it are all uprooted.

The author writes about the nostalgia of others, but also expresses his own homesickness.

In "That Blood-Red Rhododendron", the author writes: "His nostalgia for home must be as deep and far away as those soldiers in ancient times." The protagonist is pregnant more than once

Nian Yuan's mother and white and fat little sister in his hometown in Hubei Province, miss the home he can never go back to.

The lady boss in "Huaqiao Rongji" takes extra care of her fellow countrymen, and from time to time compares Taipei with Guilin, yearning for Guilin, which represents the "past", and looks down on Taipei, which represents the "present", although these people are in Taipei, their roots are in the mainland.

When he was young, he marched on the streets to participate in the May Fourth Movement, beat up the traitors, and shouted "return me to Qingdao", and when he was old, he could only look at the homeland of the homeland across the deep strait. They became deserters of the times, and the poetic and bloody side of their bodies remained on this side of the shore...

Life is a process that leads to death. Man, in the end, will inevitably die, "Where the ancient and the modern will be, and the pile of grass in the desert is gone." The life and death expressed in "Taipei People" are the soul and the body, and the present and the past have eventually disappeared.

"Taipei People" is not to write about the tragedy of one person, but to write about the tragedy of a generation, the tragedies of the world abound, can you mourn for everyone? The people in the story have already seen through this, they are drunk and dreaming of death, forgetting their sadness. That's the end of the story.

Pay attention to me, Rui Rui reading to accompany you in the quiet years!