In 1945, Song Ziwen, the chief executive of the National Government, decided to implement the national gold selling policy to alleviate inflation in order to save the increasingly tense economic situation. The starting point of the policy is good, but the result has led to a windfall for gold speculators, and there are three types of gold speculation:
Rich and powerful, the regime eats all is called "golden tiger", the second type is rich funds, known as "golden cattle", the third type is zero speculation and retail sale, speculative businessmen mainly "golden flies".
The introduction of the policy of gold selling has provided the "golden tiger" with the opportunity to accumulate wealth, the national economy is deteriorating, and the social unrest is unstable. The price of rice in Shanghai rose 15 times from 1945 to 15 times in 1946 and 20 times in 1947. Ordinary people can't buy a bag of rice with a bag of money.
The story background of Zhang Hexhui's novel "Paper Drunken Gold Fan" takes place in Chongqing during this golden boom. It was originally serialized in the Shanghai News for two years from September 1946 to November 1948, and was published as a book in 1949.
The novel involves a rich class of characters, such as official corruption, speculative businessmen, ordinary anti-war couples, whitewashing parties, rural peasant women, etc., and the whole society is lost in the madness of the financial vortex of reselling gold and speculating on bonds, and at the same time shaping their fate.
The main character of the novel is based on the fate of a Mrs. Wei who fled to Chongqing as the main line, which is compared with the "love" story of the rich family prince in "The Golden Powder Family" and "Laughing Karma", and the story of the married woman at the bottom of the society as the protagonist renders the vicissitudes of life and highlights the complexity of human nature.
Where the world is flawed, it is seen from the circumvention
After the National Government opened up gold trading in 1943, the price of gold in the rear area of the Anti-Japanese War rose rapidly, leading to the emergence of a gold trend in various places. Chongqing, as the core of the gold market in the rear area of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression during this period, was most affected by the gold tide. In the Chongqing gold boom, officials and businessmen have always used the gold boom to play for their own interests.
As the rear area of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Chongqing did not have the smoke of war, but everyone was consumed by civil war, materials and currency were adjusted daily, and there were poor people and businessmen who dreamed of getting rich everywhere.
Officials use their power to take the initiative and gain an advantage in the game. Wei Duanben, a small civil servant in the novel, had no intention of buying gold, but was used by the section chief and the director of the department to get involved in the gold speculation, and was secretly calculated as a pawn for embezzlement of public funds, stayed in the detention center for more than twenty days, lost the public rice bowl, and returned home to hollow out the characters of his wife and children.
Is Wei Duanben completely innocent?
Even though he will not embark on the road of crime for no reason, he is always blinded by the trap temptation of his boss and the false pure beauty of his wife. When the boss invited guests to dinner and planned to embezzle public funds, he showed a greedy face, and when discussing with his wife Tian Peizhi the night before, he could not help but blow the wind on the pillow of this money-based wife, who was a civil servant who adhered to the bottom line of personality, and finally lost his personality in front of money.
Wei Duanben was powerless in the face of the demagoguery of his lost personality and morality.
Most of the perspectives shown by Zhang Hexhui in "Paper Drunk Gold Fans" are following Tian Peizhi around the crowd, she shuttles through various gambling games, between money, and the wallet that is not real always dry up in the end.
When she finally returned one day with a full bottle of legal tender, she exchanged her soul and body for the money she had imagined.
The first time she and Fan Baohua talked around, they were recognized as flawed. The second time he was ready to steal the money in Fan Baohua's drawer, he was caught and stolen, and he burst into tears. Fan Baohua has long been carefully laid out, seducing her to lure her to the model, early expected that she is a gambler, Shunshui will make an erotic transaction.
Tian Peizhi's dealings with all men are all losers. Because her humanity is full of loopholes, gambling sex, money desire, the dream of getting rich overnight burns her day by day, and through natural beauty, she becomes a doll of male desire.
Mr. Qian Zhongshu said in "Siege of the City": "A person's shortcomings are just like the tail of a monkey, when the monkey crouches on the ground, the tail is invisible, when it climbs the tree, it will give the rear part for the public to see, but this red hip long tail originally exists, not a new sign of the status climbing high." ”
For those who have fallen, the flaws have long existed. In times of turmoil, between the entanglement of interests, being seen through, being exploited, and being defeated by a single blow are all weaknesses of human nature.
Where the accusations are, see mostly from selfishness;
Wei Duanben in the novel is a vivid little character full of human contradictions.
Wei Duanben and Tian Peizhi were anti-war couples, had no legal protection, and lived together as partners. Wei Dianben's original wife in his hometown is a time bomb for two people, facing the original wife at any time, or the tricky marriage of returning to his hometown after the War of Resistance.
Tian Peizhi was grumpy and indulgent after marriage, and Wei Duanben always tended to be inferior when quarreling with his wife, and protected his wife and tolerated it. What is interesting is that Zhang Hexhui gave the three psychology behind Wei Dianben's forbearance, which are worth pondering.
First, the wife is more beautiful than the women she knows after putting on makeup.
Second, his wife was only nineteen years old when she was united with him, and she was already willful and arrogant.
Third, I am afraid that the defendant will be bigamy and will not be able to afford to lose the lawsuit. "Divorce, several times also decided to divorce, but I am afraid that she will have to pay a huge amount of alimony."
Anti-Japanese war couples are not uncommon in the rear cities, Wei Duanben, as an honest and honest little civil servant, abandoned his fallen wife and then formed a family, leaving aside for the time being, so that the vices of his wife in ordinary life were ignored, and the root of it was selfish genes. After leaving the original wife, marrying a young, beautiful and cultured wife, she has always been a small and fortunate psychology, and its quality and connotation are ignored.
Mrs. Love Gambling, Losing More and Winning Less, Wei Duanben not only did not stop it, but thought about how to make a little money to make up for his wife's debts.
Wei Duanben is still like this, and the selfish interests of the other characters in this book are upgraded versions.
From the perspective of objective inducements, factors such as the deterioration of the economic environment in the rear area during the war, the shortage of material supplies, and the withering of the social and people's livelihood are closely related, but the greater reason lies in the vicious circle caused by people's selfish genes, the social order in the relatively closed natural environment of the rear area, the corruption of social customs, the degeneration of morality, everyone is like this, and there are fewer clear streams.
British evolutionary theorist Richard Dawkins said in the popular science book "The Selfish Gene": People are born selfish. The selfish nature can promote the self-development of human beings, but at the same time, it will also cover up the flaws in human nature, and the desire to breed and indulge in wanton desires will only be like wild horses that are out of control, and cannot be cleaned up.
Where it is difficult, see it from covetousness.
Zhang Hingshui's Chongqing during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was a lost city, which contained all kinds of human nature and condensed a hundred kinds of life.
In this world of drunken fans, a game of betting is like an electric flint, life and death fight; and tracking debt collection, cat and mouse games, is an intellectual competition, but also a human race.
Tian Peizhi's fascination with gambling is the root cause of her stealing, becoming a man's plaything, and losing her family. In the capital Chongqing, like Tian Peizhi and Tao Bosheng are the people of the city, the initial playing of cards is also the pursuit of sensory stimulation of the pastime, with the continuous fluctuation of the price of the gold tide, the two people's obsessive desire for money can not be suppressed, has always wanted to turn over the book through gambling, become rich, but has become the most miserable fate of the characters in the novel.
At the end of the novel, Hong Wuye scolds Tian Peizhi: "You female rogue is worse than a prostitute." Prostitutes exchange their bodies for money, just knocking on bamboo bars. You are stealing and cheating, doing everything. "Tian Peizhi from the thrill of obsessive gambling, to the fantasy of coveting a day of getting rich, the temptation of shortcuts has been infinitely magnified, until the victory of the War of Resistance, thousands of people lost their homes, so as not to live, to start a new life." Only she is still obsessed and sells herself to pay off her debts.
Fan Baohua is an experienced guerrilla businessman, from the capital of two hundred yuan of legal tender, rolling to fifty million capital, naturally has his business acumen. Using a variety of means to strive for interests, but due to its own lack of strength, it is passive in competition. But in the end, what made him lose was that his obsession with reselling gold and the coercion and inducement of women led to his failure to speculate, lose money and lose money, and lose money. When the War of Resistance Against Japan was won, everything about the speculators came to naught.
In this work, he depicts many ugly and despicable pictures of the world on the eve of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the vicious faces of greed, the hopelessness, and the loss and struggle of human nature in the face of money.
Write at the end:
Zhang Hexhui's original novel "Paper Drunken Gold Fan" is more realistic than the 2008 version of the TV series, revealing the ugliness of human nature. Tian Peizhi certainly has the personality characteristics of loving vanity in the TV series, but in the end, it is a chess piece that is wrapped in the golden tide and is fiddled with, and there is no helpless move.
The ending in the TV series is popular: Tian Peizhi is dead, wei Duanben is crazy. The ending of Tian Peizhi in the novel is more profound, she is like a vampire who loses her dignity, personality, and love through gambling. Everyone seemed to be enlightened, but she chose to continue to fall into the abyss, without death, but was devoured by her soul.
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