Yan Geling and her mother
Yu Ping is Yan Geling's stepmother.
It was Yan Geling herself who called her stepmother loudly.
So, when did Yu Ping become Yan Geling's stepmother?
Yu Ping married Yan Geling's father Xiao Ma after filming "Soul Blue Sky". At that time, after Yu Ping finished filming this movie, he received an invitation from the "Dragon Seed" crew to play the heroine, but at that time, Yu Ping was in a hurry to marry Xiao Ma, refused the invitation of the crew, and later the crew found Yu Ping's mother, and only then persuaded Yu Ping to play the role of "Dragon Seed", which showed that Yu Ping and Xiao Ma's marriage time should be in the second half of 1982.
"Soul Blue Sky" was filmed in 1982, when Yu Ping was 42 years old, and she had a previous marriage with a son. At the time, her son was estimated to be around ten years old.
Xiao Ma was 52 years old at this time, and Yan Geling was 24 years old.
Yu Ping in Dragon Breed
Yan Geling's acceptance of Yu Ping has a process from strong opposition to passive acceptance. Later, Yan Geling obviously saw the benefits of Yu Ping's huge reputation, so she was more than happy to mention Yu Ping as her stepmother in her articles.
For example, Yan Geling mentioned that her first meeting with Chen Chong was due to her stepmother Yu Ping.
Yan Geling said she first came into contact with Chen Chong in Shanghai when He was 18 years old. At that time, her father Xiao Ma was writing in a private room in the Jinjiang Hotel in Shanghai, and Chen Chong played in the hotel because he and Yu Ping co-starred in the movie "Youth" and met Yan Geling. This was probably in 1979.
Yu Ping and Chen Chong in "Youth"
Although Yu Ping did not really become Yan Geling's stepmother until 1982, the time when she met Xiao Ma was pushed forward to 1974.
At that time, Xiao Ma went to the North Film Studio to write the film script "Ju Lan", met Yu Ping, and since then, xiao Ma's marriage that gave birth to Yan Geling has embarked on the road of no return.
Yu Ping in "Giant Lan"
Xiao Ma was separated from Yan Geling's mother, Jia Lin, for eight years. It was not until around 1982 that Yan Geling's biological mother finally chose to let go of this loveless marriage that had become a foregone conclusion and chose to divorce.
Yan Geling's parents' cold war between husband and wife who live in the same building but do not know each other can see a similar interpretation in Yan Geling's "Return" written by Yan Geling and directed by Zhang Yimou, except that the film blames the husband and wife on the mother's amnesia.
But the mother in the movie is not very old, and it is difficult to say how reasonable this illness is at this age, which is caused by the discord and discomfort of Yan Geling's translation of her own life experience and the transfer of emotional tragedy to the tragic song of the times.
Xiao Ma is from Anhui, how could he meet Yu Ping, who has been in the North Film Studio?
During the Cultural Revolution, a group of writers in Anhui, Lu Yanzhou, Xiao Ma, and Jiang Chen, as a creative group, were stationed in Beiying and wrote scripts. This script did not come out until the end of the Cultural Revolution, and after it was made into a movie, it was called "Giant Lan".
Such a stay was three or four years, where Xiao Ma and Yu Ping met.
So, Xiao Ma is also in his forties at this time, why can he win the favor of movie stars?
This is indeed difficult to understand.
In terms of literary works, Xiao Ma did not show any special talent among Anhui writers, and even his daughter Yan Geling said that Xiao Ma was a middle-class writer, and her wish in this life was that she did not want to be a middle-class writer like her father.
Yan Geling and Xiao Ma
But the father of a middle-rate writer can get the hearts of China's top actors, what is the mystery here?
In fact, Xiao Ma is versatile, in addition to writing, he also understands music and art, which is such a multi-field specialty that Yan Geling's mother is strong enough to resist public opinion, and her soul is not guarded, and she is bent on marrying him.
In the field of literature, it is clear that Xiao Ma's artistic skills still have many secrets that cannot be disclosed.
In the resume of Xiao Ma's literary works that can now be found, the only long novel is "Breaking the Wall" with Chen Dengke.
However, under the pen of Yan Geling, it was revealed that the literary works created by Xiao Ma did not stop there, and his biggest secret was to ghostwrite for others.
Yan Geling has a novel called "Ren Huan", which shows the causes and consequences of her father's ghostwriting.
Of course, Yan Geling said in a novel essay that this novel is just her fiction, but some details in the novel can be confirmed by Yan Geling's reminiscence works.
In this novel, it is written about Uncle He, a provincial literary figure who controls the power of life and death.
This Uncle He was only literate at the age of 18, became a novelist at the age of 20, and was famous for writing oil poems at the beginning, and after writing them, they were published in mimeograph tabloids in the Luyu Liberated Area.
Clear-eyed people can see at a glance that this Uncle He was created based on chen Dengke's prototype.
Just like Wang Anyi's novel "Uncle's Story", it is generally believed that it was written based on Zhang Xianliang.
Wang Anyi was born in 1954, Yan Geling's age is more complicated, different records on various time periods, the general information says that he was born in 1958, but in some other textbooks, Yan Geling's birth date, some say 1956, some say 1957.
Wang Anyi
But in any case, Yan Geling and Wang Anyi are of the same generation, and their experiences are similar, so that their feelings when they create will have one thing in common.
At one time, at the point when they grew up to see the truth of the world, they all expressed doubts and doubts about their "uncles".
When Yan Geling was a child, she lived in the Anhui Literary Union compound, and those uncles teased her and took her out, and these uncles had some strange behavior in the hearts of ordinary girls.
Yan Geling
But when these uncles are faced with a girl who can write, their strange behavior will precipitate into their thinking, and in the future, these uncles will become a role in their pens, and then become the object of reflection and dissection of these little girls.
Wang Anyi's novel "The Uncle's Story" disintegrated the myth of the uncles' suffering, so that those uncles who used suffering to deceive the hearts of young girls never dared to hang on to their mouths again, and Yan Geling also used her novels to tear open the skin of her uncles.
"Human World" is such a work.
It can be seen that Yan Geling, in order to avoid the number of seats in the novel, flashes his words on the writing, but the basic facts in the novel are like the book "Inferiority and Transcendence", the appearance of the dream is strange, but the state of mind that manipulates this dream is real and reflects the real inner situation. The same is true of novels, when the author writes a novel, he will install a kaleidoscopic appearance for the novel, but the writing support behind this appearance belongs to the author's true heart.
For example, in different novels, when Yan Geling writes about how her mother Jia Lin originally pursued the details of her father Xiao Ma, the way of expression is different, and the identity of the characters is different, but the core key point is the same, whether it is in "Ren Huan" or "A Woman's Epic", the parental love part implied, there is a core that is inseparable from its origin, that is, Yan Geling always writes that her mother has a note in a book that reads: "I want to marry you." "That's the key fact. When a writer uses this key core, he will cover the core plot with a dazzling veil to hide the inner truth, but the intrinsic facts are hardcore and will not change.
For another example, the touch event in "Fanghua" is actually a rewrite of the same event in "The Tale of the Spike", and the narrative appearance of the two seems to be different, but the authenticity of the same touch event is the same.
In fact, the main plot of "Ren Huan" is also an uncle's "touch event" to the little girl, but "Fanghua" is unintentional, and "Ren Huan" is deliberate.
"Ren Huan" also writes that Uncle He, when he was in the highest position in the literary circle in the province, began to steal the achievements of others.
The father in the novel, buried for four years, wrote a novel of nearly a million words for him from beginning to end, based on a stack of notes provided by Uncle He.
The novel was finalized in February 1963 and is 890,000 words long.
This ghostwriting novel is called "Golden Wild Grass", and Yan Geling deliberately emphasizes in the book that the cover of this novel is painted with a red background and written on Uncle He's name.
According to Tu Suoji, we know that this novel is a metaphor for Chen Dengke's novel "Wind and Thunder", which was written in 1963 and divided into three volumes.
Chen Dengke signed his own name on other people's works, which is not the case.
In 1958, a film "New Song of Willow Lake" was written by Chen Dengke, but in the "Commentary on Lu Yanzhou", it is said that "the first draft was written by Lu Yanzhou".
Regarding this movie, the author found that yueying in the film was signed by Jia Lin, and we saw that she did not look like her daughter.
"Ode to Willow Lake"
This film was produced by Beijing Film in cooperation with Anhui Film Studio, known as an "artistic documentary", what is this moth? In fact, this is probably a little documentary on the improvement of the river in the countryside, and then based on these materials, it is compiled into a story, which is called an art documentary.
The theme of the film is the repair of the river. The character of Jia Lin is a backward element, who at the beginning drags her husband's hind legs and spreads rumors that her husband has a leg with someone else.
Jia Lin in the film is really not beautiful as a flower, and she is particularly good at jealousy, and she is suspicious of her husband's cooperation with other girls.
Later, this unhealthy mentality of hers was criticized by the village cadres, and her consciousness soon changed.
The characters in this movie coincidentally correspond to the true mentality of Yan Geling's mother. She has always been suspicious of her husband, fearing that Xiao Ma will cheat.
Yan Geling wrote in "A Woman's Epic" that the heroine suspected that her husband had a flower heart all day long, and as soon as her husband returned, she turned it over in his pocket, and this detail profoundly affected Yan Geling's brothers and sisters.
Yan Geling's brother Yan Geping also wrote novels, and in the novels, he also wrote about the details of his wife turning over her husband's pockets.
It can be seen that Yan Geling's mother lacks self-confidence. If life is as simple as it is shown in "Ode to the New Ode to Willow Lake", then everything will be fine.
When Xiao Ma met Yu Ping, a wife like Yue Ying in "New Ode to Willow Lake" was naturally left behind.
Yan Geling wrote in one of her reminiscences that her father "also had a woman who loved him like her mother, but she was more beautiful than her mother was." ”
When Xiao Ma insists on leaving the family and finding a new love, he wants his son and daughter to help persuade their mother to let go when it is time to let go.
At first, Yan Geling resolutely sided with her mother's front, and she wrote in a letter to her father, "I have knelt down for you in the direction of Beijing, and you should not do this to me." ”
She also used a daughter's killer skills to assign a multiple choice question to her father: "You choose me or choose your current wife." ”
In Yan Geling's novels, the understanding of men is always shallow, and it can be seen from it that she obviously underestimated her father's determination to abandon her mother and marry another new person as a man.
However, Yan Geling soon realized that her father's new marriage had opened up another piece of the sky for her.
She finally had a very famous stepmother who was more beautiful than her mother.
Yu Ping in Heartstrings
In 1980, she wrote the screenplay "Heart strings" based on a short story by Xiao Ma, "Song Without Words", which was made into a film by Shangying in 1981. The film is signed by Yan Geling.
But in fact, Yan Geling later admitted that after she wrote the script, she showed it to Xiao Ma, and her father directly denied it, and then rewrote a script.
In fact, it can be seen that this script is from Xiao Ma's hand, but it is only hanging up the name of Yan Geling.
The heroine in this movie is played by Yu Ping, the object of Xiao Ma who has not officially gone through the marriage procedures at this time.
It is conceivable that the reason why Xiao Ma did not sign his name in this movie was just a matter of avoiding suspicion.
And Yan Geling obviously accepted a gift from her father very calmly. At this time, Yan Geling had not yet published a single text in the press. She was only 22 years old at the time, and at this age, it was rare to have a film successfully shot in the entire film industry at that time.
Stills from A Woman's Epic
The infatuated mother also hoped that Xiao Ma could change her mind. Her greatest wish was to have another political campaign, to keep Xiao Ma suppressed again, and then it would be clear who really loved her past husband. She would stand up and save her husband in distress again.
Yan Geling, who had already seen it, in turn did her mother's ideological work and persuaded her mother to marry again. Over time, Yan Geling's mother admitted the reality, and when she later chose her husband, she made the condition that the man must have read her husband's novel.
What an obsessive woman this was, she had never stepped out of the shadow of Xiao Ma in her whole life.
Therefore, Yan Geling wrote a novel for her mother titled "A Woman's Epic".
The whole novel is pervasive with unblocking depression, leaving behind the humble love of a woman who has lost herself.
Of course, some people will elevate this pitiful subservient love to a firmly clinging love, which is the freedom of others. But this kind of love under the control of a woman is a sad existence.
"A Woman's Epic" does not use yu Ping's archetype, but writes that the father had a female student, who secretly fell in love with her father that year, and if it were not for the mother's unmarried pregnancy and forcing her father to marry her, then this female student would become her father's wife.
Such an adaptation is obviously to take care of the father's image design, and the biggest feature of a female writer when writing about love is that she will separate a man's flower heart from true love. She will think of a man's love, like "wine and flesh through the intestines, the Buddha's heart flows", a man with a flower heart, his heart has true love.
Therefore, women will go forward and throw themselves into the arms of the flower-hearted man.
This kind of thinking goes deep into the hearts of female writers, and the popular themes of "to youth" and "overbearing president" in recent years are all from the hands of female authors, and the themes in them are all female roles, expecting scumbags to change their minds, but in fact, we know that reality proves that this is just the wishful thinking of women.
We can see a similar expression in "Gone with the Wind" by a female writer. The heroine of the novel wrestles with Red for nearly a decade, and finally thinks that this scumbag loves her, and this scumbag is considered by the author and the heroine to be only physically derailed, and the soul is innocent.
Yan Geling's mother suffered from stomach cancer more than ten years after formally divorcing Xiao Ma, and as soon as she was diagnosed, it was terminal, and she died less than a year later. According to Yan Geling's article, when her mother died, her brother was forty years old, so the year of her mother's death should be in 1994.
The Epic of a Woman
She married Xiao Ma at the age of 18, at most in her sixties, and she did not see the novel "A Woman's Epic" written for her by her daughter in 2006.
Her husband, Xiao Ma, who had been hoping for a miracle to happen and return to her, died in 2011 at the age of 81.
This epic should be followed by a huge tragic question mark, or exclamation point.
Yan Geling has been using her words to try to prove that her mother is truly beautiful.