Page 1 About the Author
Mao Dun (July 4, 1896 – March 27, 1981), formerly known as Shen Dehong, pen names Mao Dun, Lang Loss, Xuan Zhu, Fang Bi, Zhi Jing, Pu Gao, Wei Ming, Shen Zhongfang, Shen Mingfu, etc., also known as Yan Bing, was a native of Tongxiang City, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province. Modern Chinese writer, literary critic, cultural activist and social activist.
Mao Dun was born in a family with quite novel ideas and received a new type of education from an early age. After being admitted to the preparatory department of Peking University, he entered the Commercial Press after graduation, and since then embarked on the road of reforming Chinese literature and art, he is the pioneer of the new cultural movement and one of the founders of Chinese revolutionary literature and art.
Mao Dun and his wife Kong Delan were betrothed since childhood. In the Spring Festival of 1916, Mao Dun returned to his hometown from Shanghai and formally married Kong Delan, who had been betrothed to him. Since then, the two have been together, Mao Dun has concentrated on his career, while Kong Delan takes care of his life. Until 1928, When Mao Dun crossed east to Japan, a female student named Qin Dejun accompanied him.
Because they both came to the strange place alone, the two had a close relationship and developed feelings, and in this situation, Mao Dun and Qin Dejun lived together. When the news reached Shanghai, Kong Delan did not believe it at first, but after confirming it, he cried loudly. The mother-in-law advised her: "Mao Dun will change his mind." Sure enough, in 1930, Mao Dun and Qin Dejun returned to Shanghai together and broke up.
After liberation, Mao Dun became the first Minister of Culture of New China. Kong Delan was fully engaged in housework, while Mao Dun was fully engaged in work. After the "Cultural Revolution" began, Mao Dun leaned over and was raided. Kong was worried about the disaster, which caused her diabetes to return.
Mao Dun, who is more than 70 years old, accompanies her and takes good care of her. But this still did not help, in the early morning of January 29, 1970, Kong Delan died in the hospital due to ineffective medical treatment, and the two ended a 44-year married life, from which the yin and yang were separated until Mao Dun's death in 1981.
His representative works include the novel "Midnight", "Spring Silkworm" and the literary review "Night Reading Doll". On March 14, 1981, Mao Dun knew that he would not be able to afford to be ill, and donated 250,000 yuan to set up the Mao Dun Literature Prize to encourage the creation of outstanding contemporary novels.
Page 2 Reader Ratings
1. The work "Lin Jia Puzi" grasped the major problems in real life at that time, profoundly reflected the social and historical reality of the time, and at the same time performed very well in art. At a time when many large and small enterprises in cities, towns, and towns have ceased to operate and closed down, and at such a serious moment when the economic collapse of the nation has swept across China and the people are in a state of panic, Mao Dun's works have artistically summarized the phenomena of life that people are concerned about and the contradictions and struggles in them, exposed the social roots that produced all this, and indeed played a combating role in making people wake up and feel excited. ——Li Qiang, a Chinese cultural scholar and historical writer.
2. The smearing and negation of "Lin Jia Puzi" is not an isolated phenomenon, but an integral part of the conspiracy activities of the "four-man state" in a vain attempt to comprehensively smear the left-wing revolutionary literature and art of the thirties; it is related not only to the evaluation of a specific work, but also to the attitude towards the left-wing revolutionary literature and art of the thirties, and to the major issue of principle from what stand and by what standard to evaluate the works of the democratic revolution period. ——Ye Ziming, President of the China Mao Dun Research Association and Doctoral Supervisor of Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature
Page 3 Background of writing
"Lin Jia Puzi" was published by Mao Dun in June 1932, when China was in the midst of an eventful autumn. "Lin Jia Puzi" and "Spring Silkworm" both depict the turbulent life before and after the 1932 Shanghai War. After "one-two-eight", Mao Dun once returned to his hometown to live. There, he saw with his own eyes that the clutches of imperialist economic aggression had pushed the rural economy into a state of bankruptcy, and that the artillery of imperialist military aggression had hastened its collapse. The countryside and small towns of Jiangnan, which were once quite rich, present a miserable scene of depression. All of this left a deep impression on Mao Dun, and he created the novel "Lin Jia Puzi".
Biography
Boss Lin: In the town, there are also some heads, and they are very shrewd in business. He was bullied by all the powers of power, but in turn exploited those weaker than him. Although he struggled to survive in the chaotic world, in the world where big fish eat small fish and small fish eat shrimp and rice, he finally can't survive and has to escape.
Lin Da Niang: Boss Lin's wife. Loving and self-respecting, he would rather marry his daughter Mingxiu to a poor guy in the shop than let her go to a rich man's house as a concubine. When the great disaster came, she took out her own money to let her husband and daughter escape, leaving her to cope with everything.
Widow Zhang: A poor widow in the town, she and her son Ah Mao are dependent on each other, and store their hard-earned hard-earned hard-earned money on Boss Lin's cabinet to live. After Boss Lin went bankrupt and escaped, not only did all her savings disappear, but her son was also trampled to death in the crowd.
Miss Lin: The only daughter of Boss Lin and Mrs. Lin, she grew up in a carefree environment from childhood, naturally developed a pampered personality, but its essence is good, for black hemp seeds and the like there is an almost instinctive hatred, and when Mrs. Lin promised her to Shousheng, "her tear marks contain a smile", there is no difference in the rank of climbing the dragon and attaching the phoenix, which is gratifying.
Shousheng: Shrewd and capable, loyal, he is Boss Lin's right and left hand, when the Lin family shop is facing closure, he has no illusions about the reactionary ruling group at that time, persuading Boss Lin to leave, this is the manifestation of his "weak" resistance, as for what to do after leaving, he does not have "vision", which is also determined by his own limitations as a small clerk, but for his class, there is still a certain degree of progress.
Page 4 Summary of contents
Japan invaded the three northeastern provinces, and the whole country set off a boycott of Japanese goods. Miss Lin was laughed at by her classmates at school because she was wearing Oriental goods, and she returned home angrily. But my mother was also worried about selling Oriental goods at home. Miss Lin was embarrassed that she had no clothes to wear, her clothes and her daily necessities were All Oriental goods, and although she liked these things very much, in this situation, she had to give up these favorite things.
The father came back frustrated, the mother and daughter guessed that it must also be for this matter, Miss Lin had planned to further ask her father to make a new dress that was not an Oriental product, but seeing that her father's face was not right, she did not dare to take the risk. The hypocritical authorities took the opportunity to loot the people's fat and people's anointing, accept bribes from the Lin family shop stills, and threaten these petty bourgeoisie. Mr. Lin had no choice but to decide to take off the gold collar to bribe those in power.
The next day Mr. Lin's shop opened with a new look, and his "extra expenses" were expected to be recovered at this time, even Miss Lin's new clothes would depend on the business of these few days. The market gradually became lively, and it was almost the New Year, and he thought, "People always have to buy some New Year goods." From time to time, the front of the shop was also full of people, but they were all poor countrymen, and they couldn't even eat, so how could they have the money to buy these things? In the afternoon, I finally did a few businesses, and the gloomy mood of the whole family was much better.
When the general ledger was calculated at night, the situation was not very optimistic, and there were still a lot of customer accounts. At this time, Mrs. Zhu San came to ask for interest, and Mr. Lin had no choice but to give her today's income. And Miss Lin also bought her favorite cloth on credit, and Mr. Lin had no choice but to smile bitterly. After another two days, Mr. Lin's shop, the business of Mr. Lin's shop, which was still "big on the plate", was really good, and Miss Lin and her mother were smiling.
It's just that Mr. Lin is psychologically conflicted, he is selling at a loss! What disturbed him the most was that the Shousheng in the store had not returned to collect the accounts until now, Mr. Lin was waiting for the money collected by the Shousheng to spend the "guest account", and the guests in Shanghai had arrived. At this time, the news of the Japanese bombing of Shanghai came, and people were suddenly panicked, and the guests who collected debts in Shanghai refused Mr. Lin's emotional intelligence without any accommodation, and had no choice but to go to Hengyuan Qianzhuang to borrow money, who knew that the owner of the money house actually wanted him to pay off the six hundred yuan he had previously owed.
Because of the war, the Chamber of Commerce asked everyone to share the military salary, and Mr. Lin agreed for the sake of face. At this time, Shousheng, who went out to collect the bills, returned, and Mr. Lin had to block most of the customers who wanted to pay the debt. The party master blackmailed him, the money bank pressed him, and the peers slandered him, and they had to eat bad debts, and no one could bear such a heavy ordeal. Mr. Lin felt that this time he was ruined!
Due to the closure of many shops, Mr. Lin's account cannot be recovered, and the money owed to Hengyuan Qianzhuang must be paid off on the fifteenth day of the first month, and Mr. Lin's home is like an ice cellar. The market is in a depression, even the pawnshops have stopped, and the valuable clothes and accessories you are worth as much as you are can only get two pieces, called "two dollars to seal the door".
There was no money to buy in the store, only some daily necessities were left, and at this time, many refugees fled from Shanghai, and these daily necessities became a hot commodity, and the business improved for a while. This caused debts to flock to, Mr. Lin had no choice, had to ask the president of the Chamber of Commerce for help, what was not expected was that the president of the Chamber of Commerce proposed to Miss Lin to be the little wife of the director of the Bureau, and Mr. Lin felt that the disaster was not alone.
Soon Mr. Lin was taken away by the party department. Mr. Lin was detained, which made the family panic, the president of the Chamber of Commerce used debts and Director Bu to threaten, Shousheng tried his best to get rid of all the goods with the stills of the Lin family shop, and finally redeemed Mr. Lin, Lin Da Niang decided to let Mr. Lin and his daughter escape, before leaving, let Miss Lin and Shou sheng have a relationship, and he and Shousheng stayed to cope with the situation.
The Lin family shop finally closed down, and a large group of creditors quarreled in the Lin family shop, and Hengyuan Qianzhuang and other creditors argued about how to distribute the bottom goods. Although the shop is empty, even the total amount of "wealth" is enough to repay 70% of the creditors, but everyone wants to win 90% or even 10% for themselves. Although there are police officers, the scene is still very chaotic, there are crying and screaming, some shouting and making trouble, and some police take advantage of the opportunity.... People decided to go to the party headquarters to file a complaint, and as a result, there was a clash with the police, and the crowd was dispersed....
Page 5 Quotes
1, however, I can't hear clearly, only my mother's continuous uh-huh, intermittently drifting to Miss Lin's ears, suddenly my mother's noise is higher, it seems to be very angry, there are a few words to hear very clearly:
- This is also Toyo goods, that is also Oriental goods, uh!......
2, she opened this camel velvet cheongsam, dragged out the small cowhide box from under the bed, twisted the lid of the lid of the box like a gamble, and threw the bottom of the box towards the table, and the colorful clothes and miscellaneous items rolled all over the bed.
3, she loves these Oriental goods, and she hates those Orientals; What about sending troops to fight the three eastern provinces? Otherwise, who will laugh and scold after wearing Toyo goods?
(To be continued)
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