"The eyes of the world may be divided into men and women, but tiny atoms and nuclei do not. After all, our efforts can be seen. In the drama "Spring Death", which is being staged at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Gu Jingwei, the only female tutor of the Institute of Physics of the Academia Sinica, wrote such words to Qu Jianxiong, a female disciple and colleague who is about to study in the United States, and many audiences in the audience were deeply moved. The performance coincided with International Women's Day on March 8, and many viewers said that such a real, lovely, brave, independent, fearless, and constant pursuit of truth and science is the real "goddess".
The drama "Spring Death" is one of the series of works of the "Drama Nine" troupe of the Republic of China intellectuals, and is a rare double female protagonist work with female intellectuals as the theme. The two heroines in the play, one is Gu Jingwei, who is based on Gu Jinghui, the first female doctor of physics in China, and the other is Qu Jianxiong, a female physicist known as the "Oriental Curie Lady". The work of the physics institute is boring and tedious, and the various problems of reality have set many barriers for them, but they always believe that they can always see some light in life, support each other and fight side by side in the era of undercurrents and changes; in the lonely dark night of few companions, they spark each other, light up the long night, and bring each other the courage to persevere. Unencumbered by gender, they write exquisite poems in the shuffling of the bombs, and in the simple time, they see the stars and spring mountains ahead.
However, the daily life of female physicists is also full of the same chai rice oil and salt that other women have to face, joy and sorrow, and the desire and confusion of feelings. When Qu Jianxiong, a high-achieving student, took the first place in the "Gengjian International Student Examination", he was replaced by the second male student to study abroad; Gu Jingwei, a 35-year-old researcher at the Institute of Physics, repeatedly went on blind dates but could not find a partner, and won the "Best Teacher Award" but received a tie as a prize... The difficulty of curiosity, the difficulty of women's difficulties, sexism, and marriage and love faced by women in that era still resonate with today's audiences, and there are tears in laughter.
Gu Jingwei is not the stereotypical female doctor in people's impressions, she is lively and cheerful, smiling and smiling, and likes cheongsam, music, red wine, and poetry. In the "Marriage Notice" published in the newspaper, she put forward eight criteria for choosing a mate: "First, the appearance is handsome, the middle body is in shape, the hope is solemn, and the relatives are very kind; second, there is no bad habits such as tobacco and alcohol; third, the body is strong, the clothing is simple; fourth, the economy has considerable independence; fifth, for the love of women, it is specialized and not indiscriminate, honest and not deceitful, and can be the soul of the partner; sixth, the study is not knowledgeable but has expertise; seventh, the spirit is full, there is a noble personality; eighth, both have the spirit of creation." But in the end, "there is not one who can satisfy." This is not only the lament of Gu Jingwei in the play, but also the hidden pain of many contemporary female audiences in the audience.
Being able to express such a difficult to grasp theme of the Republic of China + intellectuals + women is so vivid, interesting and affectionate, stems from the fact that many members of the "Drama Nine" troupe are themselves highly educated intellectuals. Zhu Hongxuan, the founder of the troupe and the screenwriter and director of "Spring Death", once won the title of Jiangxi Provincial Liberal Arts Champion with a score of 663 points in the college entrance examination, and Lu Fuyang and Sun Yizhou, who played Gu Jingwei and Ding Xilin in the play, both graduated from Peking University; Lu Wen, who plays Qu Jianxiong, is a doctoral student at Beijing Jiaotong University, and she especially likes the female characters in the nine-person play, she said: "Whether it is the protagonist or the supporting role, they are rich and independent, have their own vitality, and do not exist to set off others. ”