Text: Yu Di 丨 Anchor: Yu Di
His words, because they are too beautiful, make people shudder. Some say he's a legend, some say he's a freak. And I said, he's a demon.
The last century was the golden age of Hong Kong sisters, and all of Asia was staring at Hong Kong entertainment; and Yukio Mishima, who adhered to the ultimate aesthetic masterpiece, his head is still hanging high at the entrance of Japanese literature, and the tragic way of death and violent aesthetic works together affect the world's various thoughts about Japan. Like a meteor in the celestial dome and the soul of the moon, you remember exactly the moments when he came, but you can never define his existence.
Reading "Spring Snow" today, this so-called Japanese version of "Dream of the Red Chamber", a masterpiece of the world, really experienced the strange and depressed beauty of Mishima and the feminine charm of the whole body. His characters are like Gaugong's white porcelain dolls, dusty, fragile and perishable, but only in the midst of worldliness and filth, you can open your eyes and be ready to burn jade at any time.
/ Part 01
"Spring Snow: The Snow of Dawn and the Boiling Raindrops, Life and Death Are Inseparable"
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"Spring Snow" tells the story of the two great family descendants of the Marquis of Matsueda and the Earl of Ayakura, and the unique love between Kiyoaki Matsueda and Satoko Ayakura from Spring Snow to Spring Snow is full of full oppositions of "elegant forbidden" and "blasphemous happiness", and also full of the material mourning spirit that is accustomed to Japanese classical aesthetics.
Their love is indefatigable and covetous. Each other's fates are wrapped in layers of huge family conspiracies, and all the resistance is weak and strong, and finally rips off the axis of the marionette and rushes to death for a lifetime. They awakened each other, but also destroyed each other. Beautiful as the spring light, Satoshi of the pearls of the times and beautiful as the brilliance of pearl shells.
Satoko is a thorn in Kiyokan's heart, and Kiyokan is a needle in Satoshi's mind: one that makes the gorgeous and tragic love grow in all directions, containing all the invisible things of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth in the body; one that pierces the earthly origin of the world, cuts off the hands and siblings of lust, and completely escapes into the empty door.
"Spring Snow" is the opening volume of the super-long novel "The Sea of Plenty", and after the end of the four volumes, Mishima commits suicide. Unlike the Western novels that blindly catch up with time, he only wants to embody the Eastern idea of reincarnation. Staying in one place, using time to transcend time, and writing a novel that is enough to "explain the world." Satoshi Satoshi, who died in the white expanse of Spring Snow, is the beginning of the first reincarnation.
Mishima spares no effort to create dreams in the world of literature, so that dreams overflow into reality, and flooding dreams crush reality, which is the awakening of the world. Like the silent little golden Buddha statue next to the tip of everyone's heart, any ripple of love, it can instantly peel off the skin and bone phase. Reading his words is a reward and a benefit in the life of chicken feathers in the present place. Instead of snapping up hoards in large quantities, it is better to take advantage of this hoarding some bright ideas, time rushing, constant as new.
Beautiful people are always able to do beautiful things, whether it is grand destruction or dazzling brilliance. Yukio Mishima is a man who has been deeply rooted in my heart from his name. In douban, there is a worship of its aesthetic concept everywhere: "It is so beautiful that I can't wait to recite the whole paragraph." ", what a darling. Behind the thin and brittle sugar coating glowing with golden light, sadness like a waterfall of brocade slid down in front of me, and then it ended in an instant, and suddenly disappeared into the dust.
Letting the instinct of life rush wreak havoc in the heart of literature, and finally Mishima himself died in extreme pain in the caesarean section and the beheading of three times, this sentence may be the ultimate and warmest evaluation: "In the green forest, the rotting corpses bloomed with black and red roses."
/ Part 02
"Burning: Fate is in his pocket, glued to those desperate and unsympathetic letters"
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The two paragraphs describing Chunxue are the last lips and teeth of life and death. One is the beginning of the kissing, and the other is the end of fate.
For the first time, Satoko took the initiative to ask Kiyohide to enjoy the snow on the drapery-wrapped carriage:
The cracks in the drapery covered with gray shimmer suddenly opened and closed, and the snowflakes kept looking into the holes, condensing into beads of water on the small green knee-pad blanket. Heavy snow hit the carport, and the sound was like a loud noise heard hiding in the shade of banana leaves. Under the small carpet of knee pads, the knees inevitably touch each other, as if passing a little spark under the snow. ”
In the snow, Kiyosaki is seriously ill and insists on climbing the mountain road to the temple to get the last side of Satoshi:
"On this day, on the land covered with yellow grass in the Yamato wilderness, snow flakes flew with the wind. Say it is spring snow, and it is too light, like countless white powderworms floating and landing, the sky is hazy, the white fills the air, and the weak sunlight shines down, which clearly sees that it is a fine snow powder. The bitter cold is far colder than the snow falling on a day. ”
Kiyomi is like a cherry blossom petal that breaks into the courtyard floor after a vast snowfall, and the cold body temperature and warm color face each other in the body, and finally disappear into the most perfect moment because of the deep dream. For him, the fragile self-esteem can only be obtained from rejection, and the fanatical love can only be fulfilled by death.
He and Satoko have been inseparable since childhood, and he is deeply hurt by Satoko's attitude of always jokingly treating him like a big sister, and he desperately resists. But he didn't know that in fact, his love for Satoko in his heart was like the early spring of grass, and gradually became powerful under Xiao Su's miserable ground. The more Satoko presented her humble love to Kiyohito's eyes, the more Kiyohito threw out words that had neither direction nor end.
From birth, his sad but handsome face was covered with the superstition of a "lonely self", "this kind of disease does not exist in the flesh, but only in the spirit." His beauty, elegance, delicacy, illusion, fragile skin, slender eyelashes, all of which surrounded him, seemed to be waiting for the voice of Satoko, who sounded "like a ripe apricot in June, sounding warm and gentle", to awaken him from his dream of indulging in sorrow. Grief, on the other hand, was once the most exquisite toxin in the body, and it was also the direction that it most wanted to go.
Kiyohito is attracted by Satoko's beautiful appearance and elegance, but Satoko's personality is a powerful repulsion. Satoko's maturity, and her occasional sharp insight and conceit, make Qing's wayward qing appear self-ashamed. The contemptuous and even cold attitude towards those who love him deeply is Kiyohito's original psychological setting for Satoko. But this toxin is injected in both directions, on the one hand, weak self-esteem has a little more resilience due to active rejection, on the other hand, in the process of humiliating and snubbing Satoko, let his heart fall back little by little by Satoko, who is forced to swoop forward step by step.
The two are on the seesaw of the soul, rising and falling, constantly feeding each other's appetite for desire. Until that snowy day, the drapery of the carriage was half pushed and half on the ground to resist the light snowflakes, and Satoko and Kiyoshin had already gathered the power to gush at any time in their bodies, making them seem to become the horses that braved the wind and snow in the kiss of selflessness, and then turned into a cloud of winter arrogance that was constantly swirling forward.
Satoko was also from an aristocratic background, but the fates of men and women were completely different in that era. Women probably don't have much choice, she can only decide whether to be a used pawn or a lying body. Therefore, throughout the whole of her words, there are almost no words for the heart, all of which are words after being repeatedly washed and put on makeup in the heart.
However, there was an exception, when she and His Highness had a marriage and were found by her family fornication with Qingxian, severely reprimanded, and the whole family panicked and frightened, she calmly and as if she did not say the sentence to the world: "I don't know what kind of prison clothes the female prisoner is wearing, I want to wear it, to see if Qingxian still loves me." ”
Love to the depths, women know that it is the trestle that will eventually be buried in the sea, not the road, and they have to go down, but men mostly still have to look around to find a way to stop. Therefore, after Qingxian's increasing admiration and desire for Satoko, he suddenly lost his balance mentally and physically, and this contradictory emotion of perverse behavior stemmed from his pretentious elegance. This elegance was previously a kind of self-confidence in the background of sadness, but now there is no place to rest in the surging lust, and it is even more ashamed in Satoko's obscene and flexible freedom.
In his letter, he began to meet with Satoko. I thought that there was a pleasure in drawing a knife and breaking the water, but I didn't expect it to be the pain of stripping the cocoon. Can't do it, but don't dare to get closer. Love, which should have been like a colorful brocade, can be clearly made into a pure white silk thread of the family workshop, and the poisonous silk that was once released is reinserted into the body. He resolutely chose the former in "loss of perception" and "loss of fear".
After many unsuccessful attempts, Satoko was directly approved by the Emperor to the Third Prince of Dongin Palace under the family's brain-wringing camp. Qing Xian's pride and self-esteem retreated in place, and in the blood-filled youthful breath of the throat, the solipsistic head was instantly strangled. The love for Satoko charged on top of the first crisp spring ice of the winter snow melting, but this time there was no thin ice but only to move forward, even if it fell into the abyss.
/ Part 03
"Conspiracy: The Curse of Twenty Years Ago"
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The so-called elegance is the calmness when violating taboos, but Qingxian touched the highest taboo at the beginning. He conceived Satoko, who was already engaged to the royal family.
But of course, Mishima will not give us just a love story, he will nest layers of coils on the outside of this core of the thread, and each coil will make our heart flow destroy the stirring of decay once. The speculation of life and the analysis of human nature are all intertwined behind the story, waiting for the characters to pull up the thread. After the times are not pure, pure people must be out of place, so watching the beauty created by one hand and then being eaten into dross by one mouth, the story begins to become more interesting.
Behind this dusty love, there is a period of enmity between the two major families that has lasted for more than twenty years. A delicate flower of seduction blooms on the tip of a dirty secret, human nature is nourishment, time is catalyzed, this flower is Satoshi, and the fate of the flower was written twenty years ago. The more beautiful the more tragic.
Here is the name of another important person: Tateshina, the old housekeeper of the Ayakura family for many years. She doesn't make many appearances, but any appearance must be a famous scene. "Tateshina" is a plant of the family Tateshina in the Book of Poetry, which has strong vitality and diverse varieties. I think mishima's use of this name here is also a profound meaning on the housekeeper who is very deep in this city government.
It was Tateshina who helped them cover up again and again to complete all the secret affairs. Let them experience a feeling beyond the peak of happiness again and again in the process of stealing love. Satoko once said that in the midst of each other's sinful actions, she felt that her body was being purified to the maximum. But at a time when all the beauty is frightening, this huge ugly conspiracy that has been hidden for many years gradually surfaces.
Twenty years ago, Tateshina had an affair with Satoko's father, Count Ayakura, and this was one of the secrets. Because of this secret, she secretly accepted the earl's will, and kept the family's greater secret. As Satoko's biological father, Kazuko said with great grace, "We must not allow Satoko to marry the son-in-law introduced by Matsue as a virgin, so that matsueda can be given a salary." ”
After all, the Matsueda family was a marquis, and in his complicated relationship with The Earl of Ayakura, there was always a condescending and unshakable majesty. Until one day, the Marquis of Matsueda took advantage of the wine to touch the head of Satoko, who was still a doll, and said, "Miss is really beautiful, and when she grows up, I really don't know how outstanding it will be!" Rest assured, uncle to find you a good son-in-law, guaranteed to be a hundred miles of Ruyi Langjun, this matter does not have to worry about your father, I will let you wear gold and silver, swing the Ayakura family has never been magnanimous. ”
Earl Ayakura, who had long been accustomed to being insulted unconsciously in public, still did not put away his professional smile this time, but this time, he said the above vicious spell on his daughter.
But when the creation of people, who may have been just a momentary anger of the earl, said so, Tateshina planted a poison in his heart. Today, when Satoko was bridged by the Marquis and was deliberately married into the imperial family by the Ayakura family, Tateshina was still ghostly and pretended to be loyal to the instructions of the earl of that year. So she is not an adult beauty, she is already dark Chen Cang.
The character of Tateshina is extremely complex, and the chief planner of the whole disaster can be said to be this old woman. Why did she plan all this? She has both jealousy and admiration, using the young Satoko as the sustenance of her old and decaying flesh, while fulfilling the love of the young couple with loyal feelings, but mixed with vengeful connivance in the middle, and repeatedly consuming this deformed and perverted pleasure.
The old demon woman, who has always been loyal to this family on the surface, has actually been waiting for an opportunity to take action and use this secret to destroy the Earl's family. Before the time came, she could hide herself for ten or twenty years or more, and let the intense hatred turn into a hundred yibaishun, waiting for the arrow in the darkness to accurately shoot through the earl exposed to the "sun".
So once it was confirmed that Satoko was pregnant, a letter in the name of Tateshina's suicide appeared on the desk of the Marquis of Matsueda. Obscure and wise points to understand everything. "This mother-in-law, who committed suicide by poison without remorse, looked at her face with heavy makeup, like a cricket falling into a white powder box, wrapped in a purple nightgown, curled up. The smaller she was, the more gloomy the whole world became. ”
Tateshina wants to use death to reproduce his false loyalty, and informs the Matsueda family about Satoko's pregnancy, thinking that there will be two major families who will meet each other. Unexpectedly, the Tateshina family, which had been waiting for many years, still miscalculated a step.
/ Part 04
"Death: We Will Never See Each Other"
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Even more hypocritical than Tateshina's loyalty was the vigorous preservation of prestige and reputation among Japan's declining nobles at the time. Instead of being offended by Satoko's disgraceful pregnancy, Matsueda and the Ayakura family immediately made a concerted effort to discuss how to hold down the increasingly bulging belly and hide it from the sea, no matter what, to let Satoko marry into the royal family's dirty plot.
The adults were so busy that they were on their way to planning a secret abortion, and they didn't even have time to look back at the frozen pain on their sons and daughters' faces. The daughter's happiness and even life, in the face of face and prestige, are as silent as spring snow.
Satoko was given all the details by both parents, and her mother took her to Osaka for abortion. During the mother-daughter duo's parting trip to the Moon Temple to bid farewell, Satoko has been listening to all of her mother's arrangements like a doll. Until a month of cold and silent night, Satoko suddenly prostrated himself to the Buddha and secretly shaved his head as a nun. Satoko cut off the green silk on the sutra, she twisted the Buddha beads in her hands, and the corners of her eyes reflected the bleak silver and white dawn, echoing the cold white light of the Buddha beads in the morning light.
Her last words on earth should have been, "He and I will never see each other again." ”
As a strand of hair fell, Satoko's head felt such a cold chill for the first time in her life. The layer of hot black hair full of gloom and annoyance that was sandwiched between himself and the universe was shaved off! Since then, a fresh, cold and pure world has unfolded around the skull that no one has ever touched. The shaved part gradually expanded, and the cold scalp also expanded, like a layer of mint.
The cold air above his head, like the dead and silent celestial body like the moon, is directly attached to the vast air of the universe, or is this how it feels? The hair seems to be the present world itself, gradually falling, falling down, becoming infinitely distant. ”
The coldness of people's hearts will always give you unexpected surprises. After learning the news of Satoko's renunciation, the parents of the two families began to worry about what kind of wig to buy for Satoko in order to continue to hold on to this scandal that was always alive and constantly changing her face. Putting more wigs on Satoko's head wouldn't earn a shred of human warmth for her bare skull.
When Satoko decided not to leave the temple again, Matsueda immediately took the initiative to use her almighty connections to prescribe a diagnosis certificate for Satoko's serious encephalopathy. Since then, the coffin has been closed, the heart of the royal marriage contract has been broken, and the idle mouth of the world has been sealed.
Kiyohito knows that all the dirtiness is finally taken over by Satoko. In the early spring when he seemed to be unable to get out, his lung disease was getting worse and worse, but his weak body still did not win the longing that would erupt at any time, and he finally ran away from home and embarked on the road to the Qingxiu Temple alone. Miracles always happen before the spirit before the body, he felt that since the news of the loss of Satoko, he had not been so happy for a long time, there was no longer any obstacle on the way, what elegance and sadness and self-esteem, all were held hostage by Spring Snow, he just wanted to finally climb up the mountain to see the last side of Satoko, and suddenly there was a squirming in the flesh that had been dead for a long time.
Unfortunately, he repeatedly pleaded for the last time he could not see Satoko again. He thought about how he had pushed Satoko into the trap of the royal marriage contract with a desperate letter. He felt that in this cycle of reincarnation, he also rose up with this great love. Physical torture would slow down the piercing pain of the spirit, so he dragged his dying sick body over and over again to climb the mountain, always hoping that a miracle would happen. Pretend that the end of the last spring snow is the warm sun.
However, the last side never came.
"Two days after returning to Tokyo, Kiyohide Matsueda died, twenty years old."
In fact, when he was alive, Qing Xian had imagined countless ways of dying, and his favorite was to die gracefully. "It's like an embroidered kimono that was thrown away on the table, and before you know it, it slips onto the gray floor."
This wish, he is fulfilled. In this lonely and vast and fertile martyrdom, the distant mountains, courtyards, waterfalls, autumn leaves, spring snow, cherry blossoms, the sea, and temples unfold delicately and majestically like a picture scroll. Kiyohito and Satoko are standing next to the painting, or inside, wonderful.
【Topic of this issue】: Do you think this sadomasochistic love in "Spring Snow" will happen in real life? Feel free to leave a message in the comments section.
About the author and anchor of this article
Yu Di: National senior TV host, first-class announcer, senior engineer. He holds a bachelor's degree in broadcast hosting from Communication University of China, a graduate student majoring in radio and television language communication, and a doctorate in modern and contemporary literature from Beijing Language and Culture University. He once published 24 solar terms articles on the public account of Sanlian Life Weekly. Elected as the 2021 Beijing Youth Role Model. Published the book "Seasonal Cinema".
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