Bai Xianyong's "Taipei People" was written in the 1960s and 1970s. The book is a collection of short stories, with a total of fourteen short stories. The earliest of these, "Forever Yin Xueyan", was written in 1965, and "Autumn Thoughts" and "State Funeral" were written in 1971, a total of six years.
Today we are talking about Bai Xianyong's "Flower Bridge Rongji" written in 1670. It is also the only story in the entire book that tells the story of the author's hometown. The article is a story told from a first-person perspective, the story of Chun Mengbo in Guilin is the "rice noodle girl" of the Huaqiao Qiaotou rice noodle shop, and later married to the battalion commander of the Kuomintang, died in the Civil War of the Kuomintang, the protagonist withdrew to Taiwan with the troops, and also opened a rice noodle shop in the Changchun Road area for a living.
In 1998, the feature film "Flower Bridge Rongji" directed by Xie Yan was released, which starred Zheng Yuling and Zhou Xun.
Bai Xianyong (born July 11, 1937) is a Hui writer of contemporary Taiwan, born in Guilin, Guangxi. The son of Bai Chongxi, a senior General of the Chinese Kuomintang, he graduated from National Taiwan University and the University of Iowa. He is currently a Bowen Chair Professor at the University of Chinese, Hong Kong, and the Honorary Director of the Kunqu Research Promotion Programme of the University of Chinese, Hong Kong.
When Bai Xianyong was 7 years old, he was diagnosed by doctors with tuberculosis and could not go to school. After graduating from Jianguo High School in 1956 and earning a master's degree from the University of Iowa in 1965, Bai Xianyong went to the University of California, Santa Barbara to teach middle school Chinese and literature, where he has since settled. He retired in 1994. He is the author of the short story collection "TaipeiEr", "Lonely Seventeen", "The New Yorker", etc., the novel "Evil Son", the essay collection "Looking Back", "The Sixth Finger", "The Tree Is Like This", etc., as well as the stage play "Garden Dreams". Among them, "TaipeiEr" was selected as one of the top 100 novels Chinese 20th century (seventh, the highest ranking of works by living writers). In 2018, he won the Shanghai Magnolia Theater Performing Arts Lifetime Achievement Award and the 5th Yu Dafu Novel Award "Short Story Award".
Guilin Rongji is a rice noodle shop on Changchun Road in Taipei, and the hostess is from Guilin. The rice noodle shop that his grandfather used to open in Guilin Huaqiao was a household name, and she got the elegant name of "rice noodle girl". Later, she married an officer and served as the wife of an official for several years, but unexpectedly, the whereabouts of her husband were unknown in the Battle of Northern Jiangsu, so she withdrew to Taiwan with her army and opened this rice noodle shop.
Most of the people who frequent the rice noodle shop are small civil servants, many of whom are the guangxi compatriots of the boss lady, and many people make meals here all year round.
An old man Li who came to pack rice was once called "Li Bancheng" in Liuzhou, and it is said that half of the houses in Liuzhou City belong to his family. But now living in Taipei, old and stupid abandoned by his son, often unable to pay for food and scolded by the boss lady, on his 70th birthday, the old man hanged himself.
The other was Qin Yizi, who was a county magistrate in Rong County, Guangxi, and had several wives. But now in taipei city government, he has been fired for flirting with female employees. The woman who flirted with the woman in the market was broken in the head and locked up in the police station, and the boss lady bailed him out, and on a stormy night, he fell into a ditch and drowned.
There is also a Mr. Lu from Guilin, the most favored by the hostess, who often cooks rice noodles for him with double ingredients. Mr. Lu was born in a large household in Guilin, and now he only has a mr. teaching, and he is still single in his thirties and is still a drunkard, and Miss Luo of Guilin, who is engaged to him. The hostess introduced himself to his niece and he refused. When he was cheated out of his life savings and could not see his sweetheart, he gave up on himself and mixed with Taiwanese laundry lady Ah Chun and was injured. After beating a female student on the street, he quietly died the next day, and the doctors could not find out the cause of death.
The lady boss went to Mr. Lu's house to find valuable things to offset the money he owed for the meal, and found a photo of Mr. Lu and Miss Luo, which she used to hang in the rice noodle shop and show off her past to the customers.
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