Who is Lin Daiyu?
A fictional character in a book, or a real life from the past and present?
This classic image, which was once imitated and sought after by countless people, gained an unprecedented visual presentation in the 1987 TV series "Dream of Red Mansions". Watch the video:
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At that time, the dreamlike scene is still fresh in my memory: Daiyu's slender and graceful figure walked through the dream garden, and when she slowly looked up, a pair of big eyes like a thick fog were full of melancholy - just like "a pair of affectionate eyes that seem to be happy but not happy".
And Chen Xiaoxu, who played this role, at the moment when he interpreted Lin Daiyu in a brilliant way, seemed to be Sister Lin who had walked out of the book world in front of him, which made the audience fascinated.
In this way, Chen Xiaoxu became a household name overnight. But just when she was becoming a smash hit, her life trajectory suddenly took a puzzling and steep turn, which eventually led to her tragic ending.
The cause of all this can be traced back to a bizarre "strange thing" when Chen Xiaoxu was born.
According to Chen Xiaoxu's mother, she had a strange dream on a thunderstorm night in the late stages of her pregnancy. In the dream, lightning reflected the sky in a snowy light, and the torrential rain poured down, smashing on the window lattice, splashing layers of water.
In this terrible stormy night, a mysterious old man with a strange face and gray hair appeared in her sight, as if there was a taste of detachment. The old man kept telling her repeatedly to name her soon-to-be-born daughter "Chen Yefen".
Although the pronunciation of the word "ye" is obscure, what is even more suspicious is that this word cannot be found in the dictionary at all. Although the cause of the dream is a mystery and makes people feel like they have a strange dream at the end of the world, Chen's mother, as a mother, still followed the instructions of the old man in the dream and gave her daughter this strange name.
It wasn't until I consulted a spitting and exaggerated-looking rural comic physiognomy that I learned a shocking explanation: it turned out that "Ye Fen" was the name of the famous novel character Lin Daiyu!
Once you carry this name, you are destined to have a bumpy and troubled future, just like Lin Daiyu who has experienced vicissitudes of life.
Chen's mother was shocked, her face was like earth, and she hurriedly changed the name of "Xiaoxu", a sunny and "newborne" name, for her daughter before a pair of delicate little hands were fully unfolded, and earnestly hoped that this new name could change her daughter's fate.
However, this is only a self-soothing thing thing after all. The weaving machine of fate crackled, and it was destined to make Chen Xiaoxu re-follow the old path of Lin Daiyu's fate.
The next thing is familiar to everyone. With her delicate portrayal of Lin Daiyu, Chen Xiaoxu quickly became an instant hit on the screen and was praised as "a unique Lin Daiyu template in the new era".
However, just when she was a heartthrob with infinite scenery and stars, she suddenly announced to the camera on a sunny day: "I want to say goodbye to the entertainment industry completely and devote myself to the business world!" This sudden news was like a thunderclap, which surprised thousands of fans and looked at each other.
Personally, I think that Chen Xiaoxu's approach is certainly abrupt, but the intention is understandable. Because after playing Lin Daiyu, she seems to never be able to get rid of the shackles of this identity.
It seems that no matter what new role she tries on, only Lin Daiyu's shadow is left in the eyes of the audience, and this dilemma of "born at the wrong time" is really difficult. Perhaps it is based on this "predestined" view of fate that Chen Xiaoxu will resolutely choose to start anew and start anew.
Unexpectedly, the disaster is not alone, and this former "Sister Lin" was later attacked by the "disease". The bad news that he was diagnosed with breast cancer shattered the stable small home that Chen Xiaoxu had just established.
As an actress who was once highly sought after by art, her white and creamy appearance and graceful figure are difficult for her to say. At this moment, she made a decision that surprised everyone - she chose to become a monk and escape into the empty door!
What kind of absurd logic is this?
Life was abandoned by her like this?
How could she be so cruel to herself?
At that time, public opinion was in an uproar, for a strong business woman with a full of money in her hand and a prosperous career, she would rather confine herself in a cold and bleak temple than accept modern medical treatment, what is the reason for this?
It wasn't until later that a lover unveiled the veil of mystery. It turned out that Chen Xiaoxu had been believing in a self-proclaimed religious master for many years, and this fox-like "master" actually induced her in a daze, believing that all diseases were due to the evil obstacles created in the past and present lives, and that she needed to take refuge in Buddhism and cultivate Buddha diligently to atone for her sins.
What's worse is that this drunken and outrageous "master" hates the use of modern medicine to remove diseased parts of the body, and Chen Xiaoxu also has great fear and taboo about it.
So, just when her career was at its peak and everything was ready, a distorted religious superstition from the Middle Ages befell her life like a nightmare, becoming the last fuse for her self-destruction!
As the saying goes, you can't have the heart to harm others, and you can't have the heart to prevent people. When our superstition and attachment to something outweigh our love of life itself, death has become a doomed end.
What's even more distressing is that in the days when Chen Xiaoxu was going down, she actually loosened her blind trust in that "master" for a while. When the pain of her body became worse and worse, she finally opened her heart and began to question the fallacy of "Master", and begged the other party to give her a chance to live.
It's a pity that the demented "master" simply ignored her pleas, and instead blindly adhered to the inherent dogma and dismissed her as "doing my own thing". In this way, Chen Xiaoxu's little hope was quickly contained on the brink of collapse.
In desperation, she gazed greedily at the sparkling doors of the hospital, but she did not have the courage to step into the vibrant treatment hall.
In the end, the fairy of the world died at the age of 38, and he collapsed alone in a secluded corner of a remote temple in a white shirt. Outside, the May sun was shining, but she never had the chance to appreciate the tranquility of time.
Until the end, Chen Xiaoxu insisted on not accepting the practice of surgical removal of the lesion because of concerns about his body appearance. The "master" who was obsessed with her alluring appearance did not see her, leaving only a thunderous regret and lamentation.
Why did the whip of fate whip again and again on this peerless Lin Daiyu? The halo also meant that the shackles were coming? Did the strange things at birth imply that she was destined to have a quiet life as an ordinary person?
And not long after Chen Xiaoxu's death, a creepy thing happened again. When Yang Shuyun, the makeup artist of "Dream of Red Mansions", went to put on Chen Xiaoxu's makeup for the last time, a huge still poster actually tumbled down in the absence of wind, making a dull sound.
After Yang Shuyun witnessed this unreasonable scene, his legs suddenly became weak, and he couldn't help muttering: "Xiaoxu knows that I came to see her off, and she came to greet me..."
Was Chen Xiaoxu destined to play the role of Lin Daiyu from the beginning?
Has she been repeating Lin Daiyu's experience all her life?
The name given at birth has already doomed her to make mistakes again and again, and eventually die?
What we have lost, is it a beautiful actress, or Lin Daiyu herself, who is imprisoned by the world?
In the end, all these mysteries can only be ruthlessly discarded by all the rationality of human beings.
Your life is up to you, not by the sky, the life trajectories of Chen Xiaoxu and Lin Daiyu are actually just a swan song in front of Wang Xie Tang in the old days.
Sister Lin, don't make an echo. May you finally find the peace you deserve in the spirit of heaven.
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