Jia Pingwa's novel "White Night", because "born" is not timely, is an underrated work.
White Nights is a novel after Wasteland. However, because of the big controversy caused by the publication of "Waste Capital", Jia Pingwo himself also underwent pressure from all sides, and later "Waste Capital" became a banned book in China, and everyone also talked about "Jia" discoloration, so that after Jia Pingwo's "White Night" was published, the critics were almost silent, so many people may not have read this novel.
"Abandoned Capital" is written about the bitterness, wandering and confusion of the intellectuals zhuang zhidi in the city, because the large-scale description in it after publication attracted a lot of criticism at that time.
After that, Jia Pingwo changed the object of concern, from the intellectuals in the city to the life of the ordinary people at the bottom of the Xijing City, and "White Night" was born in this situation.
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The novel mainly talks about the love-hate entanglement between the protagonist Yelang and the two women.
Ye Lang was originally an unemployed vagabond, but he was righteous and liked to make friends.
In an exchange with a friend, I met Zhu Yihe, the secretary general of the municipal party committee who had real power at that time, and was arranged by Zhu Yihe to work in the municipal library.
Later, with the transfer of government personnel, Zhu Yihe lost his real power, and he was paralyzed in bed. Night lang also lost his job in the library.
During this period, through Zhu Yihe, he met Yan Ming, who had a heart of admiration for him.
Night Lang is a black man, long, horse noodles, and a vegetable seller who sells roast chicken, renting a dirty courtyard, no fixed job, after not being able to do it in the library, he comes to a troupe that specializes in performing repertoire (ghost plays) to do some chores, which is enough to be a lower riba.
Ye Lang, who likes to make friends, met Yu Bai again through friends, a woman who has been on sick leave at home for a long time, living in a large mansion handed down from her ancestors, playing the guqin, composing poetry, learning paper-cutting with the old lady, creating a cloth pile painting by herself, not contaminating the fireworks in the world, and serving the white snow of Yangchun, it seems that Lin Daiyu has descended to the contemporary era.
This Lin Daiyu's generally noble Yu Bai made Ye Lang fall in love at first sight.
Compared with Yu Bai, Ye Lang was humble. He knew that he was humble, so he had a hint of inferiority, and when faced with the white snow of Yangchun, he was so inferior that he did not dare to reveal his admiration.
Yan Ming, who was born from a humble background like Ye Lang, has a deep affection for Ye Lang, but in the depths of Ye Lang's heart, there is only Yu Bai.
Yu Bai was very proud. In love, there is a little bit of twisting, obviously like The Night Lang, but has always been arrogant and refuses to bow his head, waste too much, God is not willing to give you a chance.
In order to repay the favor and marry Yan Ming, Ye Lang and Yan Ming have a daughter, because the daughter is ugly, not like herself, nor like Yan Ming, she has doubts about Yan Ming's loyalty, and eventually divorces Yan Ming.
Later, he learned that Yan Ming was originally very ugly and had suffered from discrimination from others, and later she had a facelift and came to live in Xijingcheng. With a good figure and appearance, in this face-watching society, she has become a very red model.
Her original name was Liu Huihui, and after coming to Xijing City, she changed her name to Yan Ming.
After the divorce, Yan Ming left Xijing with his children.
Life is like this, what you can get in reality you don't love, what you love is difficult to get.
Not long after Ye Lang got married, Yu Bai broke out, and she felt that she could not leave Ye Lang.
Yu Bai grabbed Ye Lang's hand, "I don't know how long it took, it felt like a hundred years ago, two people became one person, this person has four legs and four hands", Yu Bai said, "Ye Lang, you forgot about our two things, but I am the little monk who can't put it down." Ye Lang listened, trembled crisply, and brought Yu Bai's face over: "Where did I put it down?" You have already harmed me, and I am afraid that I will always think of you for the rest of my life, and I will not have a good day."
After Yan Ming left, Ye Lang was in the dilemma of being arrested because the mastermind behind the scenes designed and denounced the corrupt official Gong Changxing who had a festival with him, and Ye Lang's final scene appeared on the stage. He played the reclaimed guard, wearing a mask, attaching feathers, and singing opera. This drama is indeed a summary of Ye Lang. Look closely at the words of the drama, full of interesting. It can be said that it is meaningful:
Ye Lang played not a cloud boy or a handyman this night, but a bird ghost, the bird ghost has a bird tail and feathers, but the head is a ghost head, the cape is distributed, and the face is coated with red and black paint. The bird ghost jumped around on the stage, it seemed that Mu Lian was on the way to find his mother, walked to the vast seashore, and met this bird ghost, but the bird ghost was called Jingwei, and kept filling the wood in the sea. The sea was a set with waves on the back curtain, and Jingwei walked to Taichung again with a long piece of dead wood.
Mu Lian:
All things are uneven,
Why should he suffer from himself?
Grow an inch,
Ancient to the end of time?
Jingwei:
I wish to ping the East Sea,
The body does not change.
The sea has no peace,
My heart is endless.
Mu Lian: Jingwei, I ask you, where did the fish you ate come from?
Jingwei: (Throwing dead wood into the sea) From the sea.
Meren: Where did the water you drank come from?
Jingwei: From the sea.
Mu Lian: (Angry Eyes) So, without the sea, can you survive? You hateful vengeful, stop your stupidity!
Jingwei: (Shy, shed two tears full of grievances) If it does not drown my daughter's body, I will enjoy people's joy and troubles in the image of a human being, but it will turn me into what I am now, not human or material!
Meruhito: What a strange xenomorph!
Life is also like Jingwei reclamation, many people hate the material sea of reality, but they are inseparable from the real desire material.
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The novel "White Nights" is a group of characters in the alleys of the city like the Night Lang of the Lower Riba people. They are ordinary people who can no longer be ordinary, and they are the lowest level of society. However, in addition to their daily rush for their livelihood, they also have their own inner pursuits, and they also long for a bright and brilliant life like daytime.
The novel was written in the 1990s of the last century, when it was the reform and opening up, the transformation period of Chinese society, people pursued a real society that paid attention to materials, and wrote about the living conditions of people and the mental state of life in distress.
The name of the novel, "White Night", is a combination of the protagonist Yu Bai and Night Lang, and it is also a confusion between day and night.
This novel, like many of Jia Pingwa's other novels, is also an exploration of the lower human nature of spiritual hardship in material society.
Although the novel "White Night" is in the shadow of "Waste Capital", it is the best novel of Jia Pingwa. Many people can find their own shadow in it.
In addition to Ye Lang, Yu Bai, and Yan Ming, there are also impressive characters from Kuan Ge, Qing Pu, Ding Lin and a group of people, who are plump and fleshy.
Personally, I think it is a novel that is very worth reading.