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Read the biography of Qin Huai Jian'er
Li Yu was a famous dramatist and novelist in the Qing Dynasty, and his life was rich in writings, including "Ten Kinds of Li Kasawong Opera", "Twelfth Floor", and "Silent Drama". "The Biography of Qin Huai Jian'er", one of the novels he wrote, although it is not long, only more than 2,000 words, but it is written with twists and turns, and it is interesting to read. The author portrays Qin Huaijian as a particularly evocative person, first writing about his self-confidence and courage, running rampant in the countryside, and not being able to live forever. Then write that he sold cowhide in melons and Yangjian, talked loudly in the tavern, was looked at by the real heroic housheng gang, remembered in his heart, and as a result, after the athletes went on the road, the latter followed, and the road encountered a competition. In comparison, Jian Er was humiliated and beaten by his anger, crawling on the ground, begging for his life on his knees, and finally hiding his name, selling wine for a living, and living in the world. The brushstrokes resemble comics, and they are hard to read. And writing the later life, using the method of first suppressing and then promoting, through idle counting, a few words, so that a martial arts figure stands in front of the reader alive. Writing the leader of the group after the birth of the tenth brother, a child of about ten years old, is even more simple and simple, that is, when Jian Er wants to warm the wine and drink, and has no salary and no axe, the tenth brother intervenes at the right time, hugs a large dead tree with a barrel thickness in the courtyard, shakes it three times and shakes it twice, and even rubs it down, portraying the Kong Wu powerful of the tenth brother, plus the respect of all the heroes for the tenth brother, so that the ten brother's gaishi martial arts are suddenly highlighted, which can really be described as a silent victory, idle writing.
"Biography of Qin Huai Jian'er" by [Qing] Li Yu
The social turmoil at the end of the Ming Dynasty reflected the literary works of that era, and there were more works of the rogue genre, which showed people's desire to suppress the strong with strength. From an ideological point of view, this work is not superior, but it is very flavorful to read as a martial arts story.
Read "Footprints of Dirt"
Rest at home in the evening and read Mr. Fan Yong's "Footprints of Dirt". From his text, it can be seen that Mr. Fan is a person who cherishes the past, such as he writes about bookstores, writes about his hometown, writes about his brothers and grandmothers, tells stories, like several family treasures, and sees a kind of true feeling in the plain, which makes people move. It seems that Mr. Wang Zengqi said it, saying that Mr. Fan is the most unproductive person in the world. I don't think so. However, I think that Mr. Wang may be saying that Mr. Fan's composition is too honest. From this point of view, what Wang said is probably correct.
Read Selected Novels of Wang Zengqi
It is often said that Wang Zengqi was a late writer. This may seem true on the surface, but it is not. Reading Wang's selected novels, or flipping through his anthologies, it is not difficult to find that as early as the 1940s, he had begun to write novels, and his works were mostly published in newspapers and periodicals, as evidenced by "The Driver", "Prisoner", "Revenge", "Different Bing", and "Chicken and Duck Famous Artists". The novel is all about low-level characters, soldiers, prisoners, and ordinary craftsmen, and the text is full of compassion and there is no shortage of superior works.
Wang Zengqi
Wang Zengqi spent some time after the founding of New China hardly wrote novels, only one "One Night in the Sheep House". This one is probably affected by the political climate, and one is afraid of being inseparable from the influence of the teacher Shen Congwen, in fact, that period of time is really not suitable for writing, because literary and artistic works are too politicized and vulgarized. Even if he and others co-wrote the Peking Opera "Sha Jiabang" as an example, there are also many unique shadows of that era. Wang really began to write a lot of novels, and there was a certain quality and height when after 1980. At that time, the author had entered the late state, but he had the accumulation and enthusiasm of life, and his thoughts were as lively as fish in the water, so his novel creation activities entered an eruption period, and many high-quality novels were written every year, such as "The Chronicle of Da Nao", "Ordination", "Eight Thousand Years", "Four Chens in the Hometown", etc., and his works and ideas conveyed a kind of warmth for the world. Wang is known as a "lyrical humanitarian", trustworthy.
Wang Zengqi's novel is characterized by a weak story, but the atmosphere created by the novel is good, calling his novel a prose novel and a poetic novel. His novels are deeply influenced by classical Chinese literature, with simple language, short sentences, slang and colloquialisms, words, tension, and chewing. The realm created by the novel, such as folk painting, is beautiful and natural, and it can be seen from it that it has a preference for traditional Chinese culture and folk culture.
Wang Shi has passed away, but I believe that his works will always remain in the world.
Reading Wang Kunlun's "Character Examination"
"Character Examination" is one of the "little books for everyone", written by Wang Kunlun in the 1950s. The main characters in the book "Dream of the Red Chamber" are discussed in the text, either individually or in a concentrated way, and the discussion has a certain insight, which is one of the main achievements in the study of "Dream of the Red Chamber" in that era. The book has outstanding views on the discussion of Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu, Xue Baochao, Wang Xifeng and others, that is, the discussion of Attacking People, Miao Yu, etc., and is also very insightful. For example, on the death of Miaoyu, that is, Gao Yan wrote about Miaoyu's death too tragically in the sequel, and analyzed this reason is that Gao Yan felt that Miaoyu was hypocritical and falsely high. And this continuation is likely to go against the original author's intention.
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In addition, the book is also limited by that era, and there are traces of class analysis of the characters, which is not advisable, but it is not completely reprehensible.
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This article is excerpted from Longshou Wenyuan, Culture and Art Newspaper, April 15, 2022