As a famous female writer and traveler on the mainland, Sanmao can be said to be synonymous with contemporary romanticism in China in the last century. In addition to Sanmao's rich study experience, her outstanding prose creation is the most talked about is the love story between Sanmao and Jose.
The love between Sanmao and Jose is full of romance, from acquaintance, acquaintance, to love, these two people who are full of romance and literature show us the most beautiful form of love.
But there are always many regrets in the world, the love story of Sanmao and Jose is not like the fairy tale we read when we were children, "since then, live happily together", Jose's unexpected death has suspended this relationship at the most beautiful time, and he has always stayed at the age when he loves her the most.
Sanmao's study tour life
The acquaintance between Sanmao and Jose has to start from Sanmao's study tour experience.
In 1943, sanmao was born in an ordinary family in Chongqing, and Sanmao's parents at that time did not know how their lovely little daughter would cause a shock in China's literary scene in the future. After a brief three-year stay in Chongqing, Sanmao followed his parents to Taiwan.
In her childhood, Sanmao early reflected her unusual enthusiasm for literature, and she had already finished reading "Dream of the Red Chamber" while still in elementary school, and the book "Dream of the Red Chamber" also greatly affected her future view of love.
In 1967, Sanmao was already a young girl, when she went to the University of Madrid in Spain to study. In such a passionate country as Spain, Sanmao met Jose Marian Gro, who was still in his junior year of high school at the time, that is, the future Jose.
At that time, Sanmao did not fall in love with Jose, after all, Jose at that time was still just an ignorant teenager in Sanmao's view, but Jose was addicted to this free and romantic woman with unique charm, and Jose, who was intoxicated with Sanmao, promised Sanmao to "study in college for four years, serve in the military for two years, and after six years, I will marry you." ”
And Sanmao was only a bold word of an immature boy, and he did not pay attention to it. After that, Sanmao continued his study tour life, and successively went to the German Gothic Academy and the Illinois State University law school in the United States.
In 1970, Sanmao was invited by his young teacher to teach at the Chinese Culture University, and after two years at the school, Sanmao accepted a marriage proposal from a German teacher, but just when Sanmao himself thought that he would spend his life so plain and happy, Shangtian made a big joke with Sanmao.
The fiancé had a heart attack and died suddenly, the fantasy of a happy life was suddenly broken, Sanmao was grief-stricken, in order to alleviate the pain in his heart, Sanmao embarked on a journey again.
Meet Jose again
Stepping on the warm land of Spain again, Sanmao remembered the little boy who threatened to marry her six years ago, and thought about the possible arrangement of fate, and she set foot on this land again, exactly six years later.
Soon after, the two people who got in touch met again, and six years later Jose became more handsome and handsome, but also very tall, and Sanmao realized for the first time that the original little boy had grown into an adult. Six years later, Jose was still as obsessed with Sanmao as he was then, and the room was full of photos of Sanmao, and Jose couldn't help but hug Sanmao.
And this affectionate six-year wait has once again opened the door of Sanmao's heart and smoothed out the hurt he has suffered.
Romance and freedom are things that are deeply rooted in the bones of Sanmao, and sanmao, who loves wandering, yearns for the Sahara Desert, and yearns for the endless yellow sand in the Sahara Desert, showing a beauty that is difficult for ordinary people to witness in the afterglow of the sunset.
Jose naturally knew Sanmao's wishes, although Jose loved the sea and diving, but the greatness of love brought Jose to the Sahara Desert. When Sanmao saw Jose again, it was three months later, and three months of desert life made Jose a lot of vicissitudes.
When she said goodbye, Sanmao couldn't help but be heartbroken by this man who loved her deeply, thinking that it was his insistence on coming to the desert that made Jose become so, so that this man endured three months of loneliness and loneliness.
Fortunately, Jose's love for Sanmao allowed him to achieve almost unconditional tolerance and fulfillment for Sanmao, that is, this tolerance and understanding made this woman with wind in her bones completely fall in love with Jose.
Sanmao has always liked the gifts of nature, and Jose knows Sanmao's love very well, so he spent a long time to find a complete camel skull in the Sahara Desert, and used this complete gift of nature like Sanmao to express his love in his heart.
That is, the skull of this camel and the two events that happened at the wedding afterwards seem to indicate the tragedy that followed.
Three details show misfortune
The skull of the camel is ominous and incomprehensible to outsiders, and the white bones, coupled with the hollow black eye sockets, everything seems so strange to outsiders, but Jose knows Sanmao, knows what is important to Sanmao.
As Jose thought, Sanmao liked this special gift so much that he put it on his bookshelf. But this is also seen as the first ominous omen.
On the day of the wedding, it was a sunny morning, both of them dressed themselves according to their life pursuits, the two did not choose formal formal clothes, but slightly cleaner than usual.
Sanmao, as always, wore his hair, and even pinned a handful of coriander on the straw hat on the top of his head, as the protagonist of the wedding, Sanmao and Jose both wore ordinary clothes, while the priest and staff officiated at the wedding were dressed in formal clothes and even tied, Sanmao and Jose seemed a little out of place.
In the course of the ceremony, when the priest who presided over the ceremony asked Sanmao if he would like to marry Jose, Sanmao did not know why he was distracted for a while, and only answered "what" once, and then replied "yes" when the priest repeated the question again. Jose, on the other hand, answered "yes" very loudly before the priest asked him a question.
The operation of the two directly made the experienced priest stunned for a while, and only then did he quickly announce "Congratulations on your marriage." This is also seen as a second ominous omen.
In such a Western-style wedding, this unusual couple did not exchange rings as an important ceremony, and the confused two returned home to realize the problem and exchanged rings at home.
There are still many ritual missing in this Western-style wedding, which is an innocuous problem in the eyes of both of them, and the most important thing is that each other's hearts have long been determined, but in the eyes of outsiders, it is an ominous omen.
After three years of happy life, the unexpected arrival always does not ask people's wishes. After an unusual family visit, Sanmao accompanied his parents to travel to Europe, and it was this time that the separation became a farewell for heaven and man. September 30, 1978, the darkest moment of his life for Sanmao, was the day when Jose died unexpectedly during a dive.
brief summary:
"Every time I miss you, a grain of sand falls from the sky, and the Sahara is formed." Sanmao wrote down his nostalgia and love for Jose, and when we look back at this century-old romantic wedding, we find that everything seems to have been foreshadowed in the dark. But love is eternal, and the story of Sanmao and Jose will continue to be sung.