Source: Weinan Daily
Shi Que
In the autumn of the Great Northwest, it is difficult to be long-lasting. Rainy days before heating are especially difficult.
Because of this cold, there are often all kinds of warm babies in the house. One that is commonly used in recent days, wide and wide, is spread on the legs when writing manuscripts, and the warmth is abnormal. I remember listening to a girlfriend who raised a cat a long time ago, cats and dogs belong, the body temperature is higher than that of humans, so the old cold legs rheumatic shoulders and the like, put it in the affected area, it is very effective.
On this day, I racked my brains to think about what to write, and I had a flash of inspiration, thinking that since there were cats in the warm trance on my legs, it would be better to write the stories of those writers and cats.
I remember that in the text, I once learned about Lao She's cat, and he said that the cat left plum footprints on his paper. At that time, the Chinese teacher praised this metaphor, and decades have passed, and the teacher's appreciation of the festival is vividly remembered. Later, I read more articles and found that Liang Shiqiu's cat was also a naughty ghost who left a plum blossom print on the manuscript paper. Or what are the allusions to plum blossom footprints and cats, one writer after another has left such words.
Feng Zikai's world is simple and vivid, and cats and children are the most important components of it. But Feng Zikai himself said that he actually didn't like cats, he just liked to draw cats, and it was his daughter who really liked cats. Because of an article mourning the cat, the reader kept sending the cat to him, but it was a pity that the daughter insisted on staying, so they raised it together. At one point, there were five cats in his house, and the guests came, and saw so many cats sleeping around the charcoal stove, washing their faces, catching tails, fighting, licking each other's faces, and saying "Fun!" "Interesting!" But as the owner of the five cats, Feng Zikai was full of resentment. He complained that "the guests only see its bright side in an instant, and do not know their usual dark life." It is like seeing only the grandeur of the group photo, but not knowing the corruption and ugliness of the organ content, and naturally praising it. "Complaining to complaining, the old man painted the cat, but one is more cute than the other, and the photos left behind are either the old cat crossed the shoulders, or the kitten sitting on the top of the head, but I can't see a little dislike."
Speaking of this, I remember that the American writer Edgar Allan Poe, who once wrote "Black Cat", must put the cat on his shoulder when writing, and there is a cat supervisor to write well. "I wish I could write something as mysterious as a cat." He said so, and wrote so.
Of course, not everyone loves cats so much, such as Lu Xun. Writing about "I" abusing cats in "Rabbits and Cats" was grabbed by critics at the time and criticized. With sharp teeth and sharp mouth, how can Xun Ge'er, who has never suffered losses, swallow this breath? Quickly wrote a "Dog Cat Mouse" response. Both articles have the background of the times, saying that they are writing about cats, but in fact, they are still the consistent characteristics of Xun Ge'er's essays, borrowing things to say things, using cats as metaphors for people, and forcefully fighting back against those who criticize him. But in the end, it is a fact that Xun Ge'er hates cats because he mistakenly believes that cats ate his beloved little mouse. On this point, zhou Zuoren, a younger brother who had always been at odds with him, made a light mention in an essay about cats nearly forty years later, saying: "I don't know if there is a record in Lu Xun's diary, in fact, at that time, he was probably angry, took a bamboo pole, moved a small tea table, put it under the back eaves, he went up and beat them with bamboo poles, scattered them, but it was not long-term peace, and often came back after a while." ”
This appearance of "unveiling the pole" reminds me of qian Zhongshu. In the afterword of Yang Dai's "Siege of the City", it is written: "Cats grow up and fight with other cats in the middle of the night. Zhong Shu specially prepared a bamboo pole, leaning on the door, no matter how cold the day, heard the cat barking, he hurried out of the hot quilt nest, took the bamboo pole, and rushed out to help his cat fight. ”
At that time, Tsinghua Garden was full of people. For example, the fight with the Qian family cat is the baby cat of the neighbor Lin Huiyin Liang Sicheng and his wife. Speaking of Lin Huiyin, I think of Bingxin. Ice Heart's cat is called "Mimi". Strictly speaking, this was raised by her daughter and son-in-law, who had brought three cats to choose from, and Bing Xin looked at this one at a glance, because it was snow-white, with only a black tail and two black dots on its back. Bing Xin said that this flower color is famous, called "whipping hydrangea ball". Later, she read in the book that Xia Yan sent herself, the white cat has a black tail, and the cat has black dots on its body, called "hanging seal drag gun". In Bingxin's later years, there were many guests in the family, and often guests asked for a group photo, and whenever the shutter sounded, the cat jumped out. This matter is true or false, but bingxin Bajin Xia Yan and the great white cat left a precious group photo, but it is a fact. (Fortunately, BingXin raised a cat in his later years, otherwise he would have fought with Lin Hui because of the baby cat, and it would not be the Qian family cat.) Qian Lao's "unveiling" cat protection, Bing Xin will probably write a "neighbor's wife's baby cat"... ）
Xia Yan sent Books related to Cats to Bingxin, probably because he was also a cat slave himself. When he was six years old, he used to feed cats for fishing and almost drowned. Although he was one of the founders and leaders of the left-wing literary and art front, he was still overthrown in the "Cultural Revolution", and raising cats was one of the "sins". After eight years in prison, his yellow cat wandered around until Xia Yan was released and returned home, and the yellow cat actually returned home, and died peacefully a few days later, after which Xia Yan only raised yellow cats.
A few days ago, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded, and the famous cat slave Haruki Murakami was once again unsuccessful. There are many people who know that he loves cats, but there are not many people who know that his famous works were born because of a cat. It is said that when he went out on a trip, he asked a director of a publishing company to help take care of the cats, and in order to repay the favor, he wrote a novel, which is the famous "Norwegian Forest". He wrote in And Listen to the Wind: "I still vividly remember the days when I wrote my first novel at night, when the cat was wrapped around my lap and I sipped my beer. The cat obviously didn't like me writing novels and often destroyed my manuscripts on his desk. ”
The British writer T.S. Elliot is also famous for his love of cats, after all, the most famous work is probably the musical "Cat" based on his original book. Interestingly, the musical Cats was later adapted into a movie. How bad is the movie change? Weber, the producer who single-handedly created "Cats", watched the movie and changed from a cat slave to a dog slave. The story is not over, he later has to take the dog to the plane, the airline said that only the companion dog of special patients can get on the plane, not the general pet dog. If you want to take your dog on the plane, you have to provide a health certificate from the hospital. Weber replied that I was angry with the movie, and that this dog could soothe my wounded heart. The airline replied, yes, you don't need to prove it, just bring the dog.
American writer Margaret Mitchell also loves cats. Her Hao Scarlett has the eyes of a Cheshire cat. I don't know what a Cheshire cat looks like, but I think that when MGM made "Gone with the Wind", the right-age actresses in the Uk and the United States were considered over and over again, and finally the unknown British rose Vivien Leigh took this role and achieved a generation of classics. I guess those eyes must have been like Vivien Leigh's, turquoise and cunning.
The American writer Hemingway is a tough guy spokesman, tall and tall, with a strong personality, who dares to face violence and death. And this tough guy is a full-fledged cat slave. His first cat was a six-toed cat named Snow White (also known as Snowball, probably snowwhite in English, but considering the names of his other cats, it is more accurate to translate to Snow White), and the cat was given by a captain friend. The six-toed cat has a very good place in the hearts of seafarers, and they believe that it can bring good luck to their uncertain voyages. After this cat, Hemingway lived a life of luxury cat slaves who gathered to raise cats, and for most of his life, he was often accompanied by dozens of cats. "As long as there is one, there will be the next one." He described it this way in a letter to his wife, adding that "the place is too big, it doesn't look like there are a lot of cats at all, until it's time to feed, they're all out of action, like a mass migration." Hemingway's cats were always best cared for, and they even had their own guest rooms in his Cuban home. Half of the nearly 100 cats that spend their leisurely days in Hemingway's house are six-toed cats and are descendants of Snow White. Tourists also come here to pet cats for a "pilgrimage". Hemingway liked to name his cats by celebrities, some named Shakespeare, some called Chaplin, and some called Columbus. A generation of tough guys finally chose to commit suicide by drinking bullets, but he made proper arrangements for the cats in his will, and the former home was transformed into a museum, and the entrance fee income was the cat's living expenses. "Good night, my kitty." These are the last words left to the world by tough man Hemingway, infinite tenderness.
Speaking of seafarers, it is recalled that Borges had a great white cat named Beper, which is taken from the name of a man sailing in the sea in Byron's poem. Borges wrote a poem specifically for the cat: "A white cat examines himself alone / In the glass of the mirror / Unaware of the white in front of him / And his golden eyes that he has never seen / Is his own image strolling leisurely in the house / No one knows, the cat that observes him / Maybe it is just a dream made by a mirror?" ”
At this point, I remember that the world knows that "the iron horse glacier comes to sleep", but I don't know that this sentence comes from the "November 4th Wind and Rain Masterpiece", which is a group of poems, the second is the sonorous and powerful land tour, worried about the country and the people: "Lying at night listening to the wind and rain, the iron horse glacier comes to sleep." It is a good sentence that has been passed down through the ages. But one of them is an extremely warm sentence: "The creek firewood is soft and warm, and I don't go out with the tanuki." ”
Patriotic poet Lu You and American tough man Hemingway, separated by a thousand years of time and space, in front of a warm kitten, but have the same iron man tenderness.
Yang Daiqian Zhongshu family
Feng Zikai
Ba Jin, Bing Xin and Xia Yan are teasing the cat
Hemingway
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