When I look at literary and artistic works now, I especially like to feel things outside the content, you don't care whether the plot of the work itself is fictional, but those extraneous sounds are always honest.
When creating literary and artistic works, the author will always inadvertently reveal his aesthetic tendencies and cultural experiences, what this person usually thinks, what he yearns for, what he has experienced, and even where his mind goes, in fact, he can feel it from the work.
You are like saying, Teacher Liu Cixin, he himself is an engineer of a power plant, so he can always see that kind of magnificent engineering project in his works, the universal collider in "Chaowen Dao", the planetary engine in "The Wandering Earth", the macro fusion weapon in "Ball Lightning", the human flesh computer in "Three-Body", etc. The works written by engineers are always filled with an industrial temperament.
For example, Han Han later became a professional driver, and several of his films "After The End", "Riding the Wind and Waves", and "Flying Life" are all related to cars, especially "Flying Life", where the lines are simply a sense of showing off automotive expertise, a professional racing driver's literary and artistic works, aesthetically inclined to express elements such as speed, distance, machinery, and speed, and when I watch it, I can feel that Han Han's mind is all in these aspects.
Some classic literary works of special historical periods can also be realized if they are carefully tasted.
"Taipeier" was selected as the seventh in the top 100 Chinese novels of the 20th century, the highest ranking of works by living writers
For example, Mr. Bai Xianyong, whom I revere, whose "TaipeiEr" is known as the first-class novel masterpiece of the 20th century, I read it once when I was in school many years ago, I didn't understand it too much, and I looked for it these days to see something that I didn't notice before.
Let's say one, "Taipei People" is really good, that kind of delicate portrayal of human nature, as well as the meaningful dialogue of the characters, so that the whole book is permeated with a deep and gentle, and every story in the book is not finished, Mr. Bai Xianyong likes to stop abruptly when the reader's emotions are at its highest, as if he is an old man with his hand and smiles at me: "I will talk about this story, let the hindsight give you a ride", which makes me read each story, I will not help but hold the book and stand up and walk.
Let's say that again, the book "Taipei People" is now read again, what caught my attention is actually those "things that were not perceived before" mentioned above, for example, in the short stories in the book, some cultural elements appear repeatedly, it can not be described by coincidence, mahjong is one of them, the night dancers and a bunch of old masters and young people rub mahjong, the wives of the national army pilots and neighbors rub mahjong, the retired soldiers of the national army rub mahjong after drinking big wine, the wives in the mansion are idle rubbing mahjong, people rub mahjong in jinling' hometown, In the story of Mr. Bai Xianyong, this mahjong appears too often, I think this must be because mahjong was too common and important in Mr. Bai's living environment at that time, so that it became a key symbol in his spiritual world, so it was always inadvertently mentioned when creating.
So what stories are going on around the mahjong table? When I read Mr. Bai Xianyong's works, I felt that I was sitting at the mahjong table, in front of the aunts and wives from various mansions, one by one, wearing cheongsam, perming curls, pinching cigarettes, gossiping, putting spittoons at their feet, and the gold and jade jewelry on their bodies when rubbing mahjong trembled, and the whole air was filled with a sweet and decaying atmosphere.
Image from the movie "Color Ring"
Mr. Bai Xianyong is the son of Bai Chongxi, the top of the food chain of the Republic of China society, which allows him to not only bow down to overlook the overall situation of the Republic of China society, but also feel the details of the era of that year, when Mr. Bai's environment must have more or less shaped his aesthetic tendencies and spiritual world, but from the scenes depicted by Mr. Bai, the Republic of China society really can't see any spirit.
Rubbing mahjong, bubble dancers, broken shoes, gossip, Mr. Bai's theme of high society in the Republic of China period is these things, and there are also heroic and unrestrained people in the country and the world, but not much, some of them are mentioned by the older generation at the funeral of friends when recalling the turbulent years of Xinhai, which was already decades ago.
I have seen many scholars and artists criticize the delicacy and weakness of the social atmosphere in the Republic of China period, and the upper class that occupies a lot of resources and discourse power has no appearance, no pursuit, no spirit, I did not understand it before, but after watching "Taipei People", I felt some.
Mr. Bai Xianyong
I did not mean to draw the same conclusion through this work of Mr. Bai Xianyong, which is not prudent enough, I mean to say that the temperament of the Republic of China embodied in the work of "Taipei People" is indeed in line with the previous examination and insight of the academic art circles on the society of the Republic of China to a certain extent.
In any case, Mr. Bai Xianyong is a respected literary master, and "Taipei People" is undoubtedly a masterpiece, but the beautiful flowers bloom in the cemetery, and no matter how beautiful it is, it also blooms in the cemetery.
Taiwan during the Republic of China, the figure comes from the Internet