This article is written by Chen Jiajia
Recently, I watched a TV series called The Golden Years. One of the plots in the play is that Ye Jinyan, played by Chen Daoming, gave her a copy of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" after being confessed by the young Zhu Suosuo. Why did he choose this book, and what did he want to express through it?
One Hundred Years of Solitude is a grand chapter by Colombian writer García Márquez, the only uncontroversial winner in Nobel Prize history. The book tells the story of the centuries-old historical changes in the small town of Macondo, accompanied by seven generations of the Buendía family from pioneers, rulers, indulgents to contemplators, from prosperity to decline under the spell of parchment scrolls. The author portrays the fate of seven generations of a century-old family into dusty photos, writing about the initial vitality and the final decline and desolation.
Throughout history, whether it is the change of dynasties or the success or failure of families, there are many examples of the rise and fall. It's like the doom in the novel, so natural, so unstoppable. And when a hundred years had passed, the meditator deciphered the incomprehensible Sanskrit in the parchment scroll, and could not stop his fate, which attested to a hundred years of loneliness.
Márquez is good at writing about the change of power and love to people, and the fate of all key people has a common sad background, that is, "ask for it". The development of the family has always been unable to get rid of the essence of "loneliness". The grandeur of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is also because it tells the fate of the entire human race.
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Female power
In this world, there are some laws that are natural and essential, and that human beings can never resist and change. When people recognize these laws, there will not be too much suffering in life. Among them, "born lonely, loneliness is a norm" is one of them.
The gentle and great power of women is an important pillar of a family inheritance. Ursula is the mistress of the Buendía family, a large woman who combines many qualities such as virtuousness, hard work, enthusiasm, cheerfulness, tenacity, and wisdom. She single-handedly maintained the order of a large family, worked hard to earn money, and saved a huge family business little by little. She indulges her husband's hot-headed novel attempts, and labors for the future and marriage of generations of children and grandchildren. As the years passed, she grew older, but she grew older and stronger, and wiser.
When she was in her 100s, she had witnessed the death and death of seven generations, old enough to be used as a living toy by the last generation of children, as if fate had made her alive more like a punishment. In her later years, she was blind in the eyes, but her heart was clearer, and she vaguely felt that the family was still trying to save it when it was in decline. Aging is just a state of mind, physical disability is just evidence of time, such a woman deserves admiration.
Some commentators commented on her: "When men create the world, women help; when men are reckless, women stop; when men stop moving forward, women inherit; when men retreat and escape, women support." "This is indeed a true portrayal of Ursuna. Such a woman embodies the value of God's creation of women!
Stills from "The Golden Years"
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Three kinds of death
From the phenomenon of Colonel Aureliano Buendia's later forgetting, we can see the three kinds of death of life. The Colonel fought in countless wars throughout his life and was a well-known figure in the country, but in the era of the sixth generation of the family, his past had been forgotten. His name was mentioned again only as the name of a street, except for the sixth generation Aureliano. Maybe there are reasons for war and history here, but I still can't help but think of the saying in the movie "Dream Quest" that people will die three times in their lives.
"A person dies three times in his life: the first is the moment of the cessation of breath, biologically speaking; the second is when the funeral is held, at which moment your identity will be erased from this world; the third time, the last person in the world to remember you dies. This moment will be a real death, and no one will ever know that you have come into this world. ”
That was death, and Colonel Aureliano Buendia, along with Aureliano,was really dead.
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Lust for love
The description of love in this book is so large and the scenes are so numerous that it even gives people a sense of consternation, and the intricate relationships between the characters, one French girl after another, and one family after another, seem to tell the joy of people in this period.
After the ultimate joy, what awaits is always a tragic reality. It is as if Aureliano and Amaranta Sur Ula, after the ultimate pleasure, are waiting for a child with a pig's tail.
Love can make a person, just as the still young Remedios transformed after marrying Aureliano Buendia, abandoning the naivety and naivety of the past to meet a new life and a new environment with a better self.
At the same time, love can also destroy a person unconsciously. When Rebecca learned that Pietro Crespi was going to marry Amaranda, she made crazy moves, including threatening, poisoning, and returning to her old habit of eating fingers and digging up walls. The poor soldier who martyred for Meme, the lonely colonel Who still misses Amaranda all the time... They are all devastated people for love.
Perhaps love can give us hope for tomorrow, but in the process we should not abandon ourselves to meet. Otherwise, people may get a moment of sweetness, but what awaits ahead may be a completely strange self and a lifeless reality.
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"One Hundred Years of Solitude" in "Flowing Golden Years"
As Ye Jinyan, played by Chen Daoming in "Flowing Golden Years", it is difficult to accept the feelings of the young Zhu Suosuo for him, but he cannot bear to directly refuse. He uses a book to answer the other's admiration, which is also a subtle and clever expression.
My understanding is that love is a fleeting glimpse of life after all, even if you and I understand each other's feelings, but I have to restrain myself and look at you from a distance...
Ye Jinyan's feelings for Zhu Suosuo are not just a father's empathy for his daughter, nor is it a powerful person's love for excellent women. I think there are a lot of feelings in this world, and there are no obvious boundaries to distinguish and classify, and even we can't express them in words.
For the people and things you like, it is instinctive to have them without hesitation. To restrain oneself from guarding is to practice. Love is the most mysterious existence in the human heart.
About the author
Chen Jiajia: A descendant of a family who has crossed the family lineage
Written by Joshua
She is an ancient person dressed in modern times, and she is a person who loves to read classic ancient texts in the red dust.
The first time I met Jiajia, was at the Chuanghehui "Humanities and Heritage Ambassador" award ceremony, on the stage she always talked elegantly, moved to be dignified, like the warm wind in the cold day, whether hosting or learning, she is everything in the line, but it is appropriate to stop, and she is not alarmed.
Although she is an authentic Shanghainese, Jiajia as a child grew up in the drift. His father, Chen Zhiyuan, is the grandmother of the four sisters of the Zhang family and the only son of Lu Liuming, the eldest lady of the Hundred Years Winter Rong Garden. The Lu family is a famous and prestigious family in Yangzhou, and his great-grandfather Lu Jingxi once served as the two Huai Salt Transport Divisions, and his family is strong.
My father experienced the ups and downs of the special era, witnessed the prosperity and ruin of the family, watched the family's collection of calligraphy and painting furniture being destroyed, and watched the unique and exquisite home being flattened. In the end, one by one, the family members moved out of the mansion where they had been living since birth and separated from each other around the world.
Many memories became the lingering pain of her father, who struggled but never confided half a point to the family, and the family story was only known after she grew up reading the newspaper. What her father gave her from childhood, in addition to caring, was more determined.
The mother in her memory is a typical intellectual woman, her grandfather is the founder of China's general surgery Meng Xianmin, known as "Meng Yi Knife" in the medical field, knife and scissors tweezers set a precedent, exquisite and creative medical skills, peach and plum fragrance self-propagation, enjoy the special allowance of the State Council, and dedicate a lifetime of blood and sweat to patients. The "Meng Xianmin Foundation" set up by the grandfather office closely integrates surgery with the Meng family.
Coming from a family of scholars, she has a superior environment that ordinary people cannot get in terms of homeschooling. At the age of 5, she received the traditional tutor guidance of the famous calligrapher Yao Junqing, entered the China University of Calligraphy and Painting at the age of 9 to systematically study the "Xingkai Li Seal", and at the age of 11, the Yan Ti Kai book was printed in Japan as a wall calendar for "Sino-Japanese Friendly Exchanges". She began to write and brush freely, trembling imitation can not be learned, calligraphy for her high degree of self-discipline to lay a deep foundation, but also shaped her traditional literati temperament, floating like floating clouds, like a dragon, there is a little pride in it, not flattering, not vulgar.
Since childhood, she has listened to the ups and downs of her family's predecessors. The influence her parents had on her was profound. Her current talent, tutoring, courtesy, and gentle and distant breath all came from her family. Only because she smelled the smell of aging too early, she always had a bystander's indifference to everything in front of her, but whenever she talked about the family's inheritance of the cause, there was a childlike lively light in her eyes.
Sven family style, she said, is the family's largest real estate, calligraphy and painting and Kunqu opera are her far-reaching family customs. The pursuit of traditional Chinese culture has penetrated the bones and blood, becoming a spiritual bond between family members, and even a part of character and even destiny.
Her beauty is the brightest color in the world, and this beauty is also transformed into bits and pieces of words and deeds through the fusion of blood. She is good at slow reasoning, making people unconsciously walk into the gentle trap, but sometimes she is also poisonous and mean, and her words are sharp, and what she presents to everyone is the frank and sharp heart under the gentle skin.
She is the son of a family that has crossed the family lineage, gentle and sharp, polite and distant. She is a decent and calm bystander, a gentle and elegant reader, and the inheritor of the family culture.
I think that people who like her must be rational, silently loving her estrangement and tenderness.
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