Author | Fan Deng Reading · Zong Mengya
Anchor | Fan Deng Reading · Children
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Meet · Meet your unknown self in the book.
Good evening to all book lovers, welcome to the reading column "Encounter" produced by Fan Deng Reading.
Today, I would like to share with you the masterpiece of the famous writer Wang Anyi - "Long Hate Song".
The book won the 5th Mao Dun Literature Prize and was selected as one of the top 100 novels Chinese 20th century.
A woman who has been entangled in love and love for forty years, a heart stirred by the floating world, a sad and moving song of life.
Ten miles of ocean field, the lights are red and green.
In the 1940s, Zhang Ailing used a pen to write about the prosperity and loneliness of Greater Shanghai.
Most of the women she writes about are seeking love for a living, struggling in the vortex of materialism and lust.
Such as Ge Weilong in "The First Burning Incense", Bai Liusu in "Love in the Fallen City", Cao Qiqiao in "The Golden Lock"...
Their fate is wrapped up in the waves of the era of great Shanghai, and they cannot help themselves.
50 years later, the publication of Wang Anyi's "Long Hate Song" once again lit up the distant dream of prosperity in Shanghai, and linked the entanglement of women's fate with the changes of the times.
Some people say that Wang Anyi is the best representative writer of "Haipai Literature" after Zhang Ailing.
She has created a series of unique female figures, who carry the modernity and style of Shanghai, but their fate ends in tragedy.
Among them, Wang Qiyao in "Long Hate Song" is the most typical.
Wang Qiyao is the daughter of Shanghai's old alley, the family is intact, the appearance is overwhelming, but she also lives lonely and desolate, scrawled.
She is beautiful and proud, clinging to the powerful, and at every important point in her life, she has given up her efforts and chosen to cling to her.
She is like a parasite, sinking and floating in the torrent of the times.
Through the fate of Wang Qiyao, it can be found that:
There is a kind of life tragedy called "climbing".
Aspire to Vanity Fair and cling to beauty
Wang Qiyao's beauty is moving and subtle, making people unforgettable and feel good.
Therefore, she has enjoyed a lot of preferential treatment since she was a child, and she always has a sense of superiority.
But she never showed off, hiding in her heart the shrewdness and sophistication and cleverness.
Wang Qiyao's family is not very well-off, but she is also well-fed, and she knows that her beauty is a key that can take her into the world she did not have.
So when the classmates offered to take her to the film studio, Wang Qiyao did not hesitate to go.
When the director offered to let Wang Qiyao audition, she half pushed and half agreed.
Director Kwa Wang Qiyao is like a lady from a big family, Zhu Yingtai and the like. But her beauty is only suitable for appreciation, not suitable for film footage.
The audition was unsuccessful, and as compensation, the director hired a photographer to take a picture of Wang Qiyao, which was used on the cover of the magazine.
The theme of the cover is "Shanghai Shuyuan", and Wang Qiyao has become a celebrity in the school.
Wang Qiyao had longed for a life in the clouds, and this head just fueled her vanity, and she had a premonition that her life was about to change.
There was a rich girl named Jiang Lili in the class who took the initiative to invite Wang Qiyao to her birthday party. The two were not acquainted, and Wang Qiyao still went to the appointment.
The Jiang family's party was one after another, and Wang Qiyao's stars held the moon.
When the news of the "Miss Shanghai" campaign came, Wang Qiyao enjoyed the jiang family's mother and daughter busy for her.
After Wang Qiyao entered the re-election, the director of the year advised her that "Miss Shanghai" was just a floating cloud, a game of dignitaries and nobles.
She didn't listen, and eventually won the third place, experiencing the glory she had been coveting for a long time.
After wearing the laurel crown, Wang Qiyao was even more reluctant to turn back. She participated in ribbon cutting, participated in the liquor board, and played the role of her beauty to the fullest.
When Director Li, who was in a high position, appeared, Wang Qiyao was once again blinded by the wealth and glory, and willingly became his canary.
Since then, she has embarked on a road of no return, laying the hidden dangers of a tragic life.
Wang Qiyao regards beauty as a resource, she gave up the improvement of her studies, gave up her own growth, and exchanged beauty for various preferential treatments along the way.
Someone said:
"Beauty is as durable as paper."
At that time, she was too young to know that life must be based on strength, and what beauty exchanged for was too vain.
When Director Li left, when the aura of "Miss Shanghai" disappeared, Wang Qiyao tasted only bitterness.
Beauty has always been the icing on the cake, an aid, not a foundation.
It may be an entry song, but it is not a passport to growth.
Indulge in rich and noble villages, cling to marriage
Wang Qiyao was placed in Alice's apartment by Director Li, and there were too many people in the apartment like her, accepting the support of others and living themselves as a "Wangfu Stone".
But she was even more unfortunate that she even lost the right to wait.
Director Li's plane crashed.
She suddenly lost her attachment and was disheartened, and went to her grandmother's house, a small town called Wuqiao.
Wuqiao's time is slow and life is comfortable, but after all, it is not Wang Qiyao's dream life, she has always been attached to the prosperity of Shanghai that never sleeps.
Wang Qiyao returned to Shanghai again, lived in an alley called Ping'anli, and opened a small clinic.
Someone introduced Mr. Teaching to Wang Qiyao, and she politely declined. She had a crush on a rich man named Cumxun.
After seeing the prosperity of the upper world and getting used to life in the golden house, Wang Qiyao did not want to return to the ordinary, and she once again pinned her hopes on love and marriage.
She and Cumminson warm up to each other, and the two secretly live together for temporary pleasure, regardless of the door.
But Wang Qiyao's pregnancy is like a time bomb, breaking all the peace, but also blowing up Cumminson's weakness and thin feelings.
He couldn't give her a home, Wang Qiyao waited for thousands of years, waiting for his sentence: "I have no way." ”
In desperation, Wang Qiyao had to give birth to her daughter alone and raise her alone.
From beginning to end, she was obsessed with the life of the upper class, even if she knew that she and Cummingson had no results, she still made a desperate bet.
In fact, Wang Qiyao has a choice, and Mr. Cheng, who took pictures of her, has always loved her deeply.
But Mr. Cheng has no power and no power, and his identity is ordinary, and he cannot enter Wang Qiyao's eyes.
After giving birth to a child, she would rather live in the fantasy of meeting a good person again in the future than accept the ordinary Mr. Cheng.
But her subsequent love was only more unbearable.
Shu Ting said in "To the Oak Tree":
"If I love you—
It's never like climbing a lingxiao flower, borrowing your tall branches to show off yourself;"
"I must be a kapok near you, standing with you as the image of a tree."
Healthy love is when both parties are equal and independent, not one side clings to the other.
The union of two people should stem from the attraction of the soul, not from the temptation of money.
Those who want to change their fate through marriage may also fail in the end.
Covet the old scenery and cling to the years
Daughter Wei Wei grew up, and Wang Qiyao's "strength" of not accepting defeat was ignited again.
She secretly competes with Vivi, walks on the street and fights with her, and likes others to recognize her as Vivi's sister.
She and Vivi's friends were more fashionable than fashionable, and the young girl was convinced to be willing.
Unwilling to admit her old age, she did her hairstyles, dyed her hair, and grabbed her beautiful tail.
While wearing a cheongsam and listening to records, relive the old times and reminisce about the old times.
When the nostalgic young man "Old Kela" appeared, Wang Qiyao seemed to see the dawn in the end.
Wang Qiyao had a deformed love affair with him, wanting to find the prosperity of the old days in him and sink into the lost years.
But the nostalgia of "Old Kela" was blind and shallow, and when he saw the stains of dyed hair on Wang Qiyao's pillow, he suddenly understood the distance between them.
Wang Qiyao did not want to let go, in order to keep old Kela, she actually took out the gold bars left by Director Li that year.
However, old Kela faced Wang Qiyao, who was nearly half a hundred years old, or fled into the wilderness.
Wang Qiyao finally died a terrible death——
The news that she had a gold bar was spread, and Wei Wei's boyfriend accidentally strangled Wang Qiyao in order to steal the gold bar.
Her beautiful and phantom-like life ended hastily.
In the last moments of her life, Wang Qiyao saw the flickering electric lamp, which reminded her of the studio 40 years ago.
When she was in the studio, she saw a horizontal bed with an electric lamp, and a woman was lying on the bed filming, and she suddenly felt that this woman was just like herself.
Her life was like a performance, suspended, illusory, so unreal.
In this unreality, some of it comes from her prosperous dreams of the end of the world, from her unwillingness to face herself and face reality.
Her daughter Vivi, who looks ordinary and studies ordinary, has found a reliable boyfriend who loves her, and the two are happy and stable.
Because Vivi knows what she wants, knows where she should be.
Balzac once said:
"If you don't forget a lot, life can't go on."
Moderate nostalgia for the past is nostalgia; excessive nostalgia is depression.
Don't think about the past, don't be afraid of the future.
Only by letting go of the glory of the past can we embrace a bright future.
Write at the end
Wang Qiyao could have had a good and happy life.
If she gave up her obsession with beauty, finished her studies, and didn't set foot in Vanity Fair.
If she chooses a healthy relationship, start a normal marriage.
If she says goodbye to old dreams, faces herself and faces reality bravely.
But she took the wrong step and blocked the exit of her life with her own hands.
She clung to everything she could, except for her own efforts.
What is obtained with the help of outsiders is, after all, crumbling, it is not earned, it is picked up by chance.
And those who pick it up will one day have to return it.
To live a lifetime, people must rely on solid things, which can be their own ability, knowledge, and conduct, and must not rely on attachment to the outside and clinging to others.
Only when the foundation is stable can we go far. What you earn is really your own.
Don't lose your whole life because you are intoxicated and happy.
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Author | Meng Ya, determined to be a Shanghai drift girl with thoughts and temperature
Column Director | Come slowly
Typography | Zheng to the north
Image | The picture in the text comes from the stills of the TV series "Long Hate Song", which was invaded and deleted
Music | Zhang Yi "Buried Heart"