2018-06-10 08:55
"On the afternoon of June 8, writer Liu Yihuan died at Tung Wah College in Hong Kong at the age of 100." If it were not for the news of the death of a celebrity yesterday, many people might have heard the three words "Liu Yihuan" for the first time.
But in the literary world, especially in the Hong Kong literary world, Liu Yiman is a godfather-level gangster, who is on a par with Jin Yong and is known as the "Grandmaster of Hong Kong's New Literature Generation".
Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai regards Liu Yihu as a "literature teacher" in his creative career. He has mentioned many times that it is Liu Yiman's novels "The Drunkard" and "The Opposite", which directly influenced him to create the movies "Fancy Years" and "2046". Even many of the golden sentences in the film are derived from Liu Yihuan's novels, such as the charming imagery in "Fancy Years": "Those faded years, as if separated by a piece of dusty glass, can be seen, can not be caught." What I see is also vague. "
At 9 o'clock this morning, Wong Kar-wai posted the cover of Liu Yihuan's novel "The Drunkard" on Weibo to express his mourning: "All memories are wet - mourn mr. Liu Yiman."
This year, the People's Literature Publishing House introduced and launched the Chinese Simplified edition of the "Liu Yiju Classics" series of books, which included the three most representative classic works of Liu Yihuan, "The Drunkard", "The Opposite Down", and "The Temple", and selected the best revision to republish. On the cover of the new book "The Drunkard" and "The Upside Down", which were just released in June, the words "Wong Kar-wai's film "2046" and "Fancy Years" inspiration sources" were printed respectively.
Liu Yiman is in the mainland, Liu Yiman's fame is not high, and people outside the literary circle know even less. So that when everyone first saw Liu Yihuan, the first question that popped up in their minds was, how to pronounce the word "鬯"?
In fact, about this strange character "鬯" (chang the third sound), in the article "Liu Yihuan and Hong Kong Literature", it has been introduced very clearly: "How to read the character 鬯? Chang. What do you mean? One is the ancient incense wine, the second is the ancient sacrifice vessel, the third is the ancient wine offering officer, the fourth is the tulip, and the fifth is the word "Chang", and the beard is Chang Mao, chang Sui.
When the first edition of "Inside the Temple" came out, the author and his wife, Ms. Luo Peiyun, were photographed in Hong Kong
But his life was not smooth. Born in December 1918 in Shanghai, Liu Yihuan, whose original name was Liu Tongxuan, was born in Zhenhai, Zhejiang. From a privileged family, he received a Western-style education from an early age and began to create under the influence of the Neo-Sensei school. In his twenties, he served as the editor-in-chief of the literary and art supplement of the Anti-Japanese War Newspaper in Chongqing, and later founded a publishing house in Shanghai, and went to Hong Kong in 1948 for war reasons.
He was 30 years old.
"I didn't have much money when I left the mainland for Hong Kong, so I thought I would stay in Hong Kong for a few weeks at most. As a result, the war went all the way to the south, and I couldn't go back in Hong Kong. Liu Yiman began a career of selling literature and supporting his family, "I ran out of money at that time, only a pen and a few blank pieces of paper, and then I wrote a manuscript." At that time, the fee for Writing in Hong Kong was 1,000 words and three or four Hong Kong dollars. At that time, it cost three or four cents to buy a bowl of wonton noodles in Hong Kong. Write a 2,000-word manuscript, and eat wonton noodles every day. "
His life is a testimony to the Chinese literary scene of the past half century. Since the 1940s and 1950s, Liu Yiman has traveled to Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia as the editor-in-chief and chief writer of various tabloids. At its peak, Liu contributed to 13 newspapers at the same time, writing 13,000 words a day. It wasn't until he became editor-in-chief of Hong Kong Literature in the 1980s and 1990s that he really became a purely literary business.
In those days of begging for life, he said: "After coming to Hong Kong from Shanghai, I wrote 10,000 words a day by myself, with a pen. I write works to entertain others during the day, and at night, when I have time, I write my favorite works to entertain myself. "
In 1962, at the age of 44, Liu Yiju was finally able to write and publish his serious literary novel "The Alcoholic". "The Drunkard" pioneered the stream-of-consciousness novel in Hong Kong literature and was hailed as the world's first stream-of-consciousness novel in the Chinese. This work made Liu famous as a mane. But the serious literature he wrote was informal, experimental in nature, less easily accepted by the public, and there were not many real ordinary readers.
In 2000, Liu Yihuan's other representative novel, "Opposite Down", was published, at the age of 82. His name is finally widely known in Hong Kong, not only because he has been established as the "godfather of Hong Kong literature", but because of director Wong Kar-wai. That year, the film "Fancy Years" starring Leung Chao-wai and Maggie Cheung premiered in Hong Kong, and Wong Kar-wai marked the film with eye-catching characters at the end of the film: "Special Thanks to Mr. Liu Yihua".
Wong Kar-wai said: "It is the most gratifying thing for me to let the world know that there was once a writer like Liu Yihu in Hong Kong. "
In "The Drunkard", there is an unforgettable beginning: "Rusty feelings are raining again, and thoughts are playing hide and seek in the smoke ring." Pushing open the window, raindrops blinked at the branches outside the window. Rain, like the footsteps of a dancer, slipped from the leaf petals. Twisting the radio, suddenly came the voice of God. "
Wong Kar-wai moved the beginning of the novel to his film, and in his film, there is a "rusty feeling and rainy day" plot everywhere, and on a rainy day, the woman leans against the rusty railing and "dreams with her eyes open.".
Born in Shanghai in 1958, Wong Kar-wai, 40 years younger than Liu Yiwei, moved to Hong Kong with his parents at the age of 5. In Hong Kong, Wong Kar-wai read a lot of Works by Shanghai and Hong Kong literati.
Hong Kong media have reported that Wong Kar-wai, who was hit by the novel "The Drunkard", personally ran to the "Hong Kong Literature" magazine to visit Liu Yiwei. As a result, Liu Yihuan gave him a copy of "Opposite Down". As a result, Wong Kar-wai read it in one breath and was once again deeply impressed by "Opposite Down", so there was a movie of "Fancy Years".
By 2013, 95-year-old Liu Yiju recalled: "When they were filming, they used to ask me to see the situation, in fact, they wanted Liang Chaowei to see how Liu Yihuan, who he played, was like. "
Liang Chaowei plays Liu Yihuan on the big screen, that is, he is the prototype of the male protagonist Zhou Muyun in "Fancy Years".
In "Fancy Years", the male protagonist Zhou Muyun is a novelist who goes south and earns a living by writing yellow novels for newspapers, which is based on "Alcoholics"; and zhou Muyun and Su Lizhen's inner anxiety is similar to Chun YuBai and Ya Xing in "Opposite Down".
In the novel "The Drunkard", Liu Yihuan uses himself as the prototype to tell the ideal and practical dilemma faced by the literati in Hong Kong, and explores the spiritual dilemma of the literati in the south through the protagonist's swing in pure literature and commercialization, as well as people's wandering in reason and vertigo.
Wong Kar-wai, who was also born in Shanghai and lives in Hong Kong, admired Liu Yiwei so much that he paid tribute to Liu Yiwei in the ending credits of "Fancy Years", and since then, "a novel published in 1972, a movie released in 2000, interlaced into a 1960 story." "
In the documentary "They Write on the Island: 1918", which tells Liu Yiman, Liu Yihuan crouched down on his desk and wrote: I had a dream. The literati of the generation who once went south to Hong Kong Island have gone one after another, and now, the last Liu Yihuan has also returned home.