Jia Pingwo never ceased to record the style of the times with literature, and at the same time worked hard to explore the territory of self-writing.
So far, Jia Pingwo's 17 novels, whether it is "Impetuousness", which records the changes of the times, "Qin Cavity" and "With Lights", which explore rural problems, or "Waste Capital" and "Tumen" that reflect urban problems, or "Happy" that writes about the problem of peasants entering the city, and "Ancient Furnace" and "Old Life" on revolutionary issues, can be seen that the writer's sense of responsibility for the times to explore various themes to explore the problem of social development can also be seen that Jia Pingwo seeks to establish a self-discourse system, cultural value, and the literary ideal and pursuit of the value of the times.
In Jia Pingwa's novels, whether writing about the countryside or the city, there is a thick and simple life force. The life of "Waste Capital" cannot bear the lightness, the elegy of the decadence of the hometown in "Qin Cavity", and the mortal hero fate of "Yamamoto", but the novels reflect some big problems in real life by telling trivial and trivial things in life.
The novel "Temporary Sitting" is an urban novel that describes the life of a group of women living alone in the city, "opening up the productive space for women to stimulate each other with daily life", and some people call this novel "the afterglow of the Red Chamber of modern urban women".
The novel tells the story of twelve women who are either single or divorced in a tea room called temporary sitting, all of whom have achieved financial independence and lived a rich and prosperous life, but they still have their own troubles and confusions in their hearts, and the various desires hidden in their hearts are always there
In addition to the consistent narrative of "chicken and dog pieces of annoying days", this novel pays special attention to the symbolic display of urban modernization, fashion, sex, etc., revealing the relationship between modern urban women's girlfriend friendship, living conditions and capital, power, etc., and providing a record of the times for a comprehensive understanding of the city.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="9" >01, a group of women living in the city, seeking love and career</h1>
In "Temporary Sitting", Jia Pingwo uses his usual narrative technique of "dense flow years" to present us with the living conditions of a group of single women living in Xijing city with economic independence.
They are all beautiful and moving, but at the same time they are very valuable, and every day they dress up gracefully and live a life of life.
For example, Hai Ruo, who temporarily sits in the tea house, Lu Yike, who runs an advertising company, Ying Lihou, who owns 23 properties, and Si Yinan, the owner of the hot pot restaurant, Yu Beiwen, the owner of the furniture store.
"Temporary Sitting" describes the living conditions of more than a dozen single women living in Xijingcheng, stringing together their respective stories, allowing us to see a vivid and meaningful picture.
Through these independent and related stories, we can see the space and history, culture, and consumer fashion of Xijingcheng, but behind it is still the desire of women, who are superficially detached from men and live an independent and rich life, but in their hearts, you show loneliness and chat.
On the surface, they have a prosperous life, but it is difficult to hide the emptiness and loneliness in their hearts, and although they have achieved economic independence, they cannot obtain ideological independence.
They have all been hurt by men, choosing celibacy and divorce, but they still have not stopped looking for love, and although they are worth a lot, they are still constantly chasing more benefits.
These women each have a proud capital and career, they have their own high-quality network resources in Xijingcheng, every day they shuttle through this city, in and out of a variety of high-consumption places, ostensibly to eat, drink and have fun, and boudoir chat is also health, beauty, fashion, consumption, and a variety of human relations.
No wonder some people regard Jia Pingwa's "Temporary Sitting" as a companion piece to "Waste Capital."
"Waste Capital" is based on the rural-born writer Zhuang Zhidi as the protagonist, with him as the protagonist, describing the man who did not hesitate to steal love to stimulate the inspiration of creation, and his own numb and boring life, and finally ended up with a fiasco.
And "Temporary Sitting" also has the figure of a famous writer, that is, Yi Guang, this time he retreated to the background, and a group of divorced or single urban women gathered around him came to the front of the curtain, they sought careers and love in the city through various networks of relationships, and finally lost the story of double evidence.
Whether it is "Waste Capital" or "Temporary Sitting", it is about the city, in this reinforced concrete jungle, which stimulates the endless desires of people's hearts, constantly struggling and trapping in real life, and finally ending up with nothing.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="60" >02, women use their beauty to capture men and get capital and resources</h1>
The group of women in the novel achieve the joy of material satisfaction through their own efforts: the popular "grandma ash", Lu Yike's hand-molded maintenance, Yan Nianchu's light luxury minimalist style, Xu Qi's use of Australian deep-sea fish oil, Terahertz energy therapy to his language, Givenchy, Lancôme, hyaluronic acid, collagen, apple muscle, nail art and so on.
These consumption symbols with distinct modern cities directly constitute the modern material and cultural landscape of Xijing City, with a strong urban flavor, if "Waste Capital" shows the field of male desire, then "Temporary Sitting" shows a group of women full of desire.
The novel begins with "Eva Xijingcheng" and ends with "Eva Xijingcheng", which actually has a metaphor, reflecting the circle life of the characters in the novel, these bright and beautiful women, in order to get greater fame and fortune, do not hesitate to moths to put out the fire, and finally it is the moon in the water, everything returns to the original point.
There is also a layer of meaning, women do whatever it takes to pursue beauty and fashion, to obtain the favor of men, so as to obtain more social resources, thereby earning a lot of material wealth to meet their own needs for beauty and fashion.
This reveals both a sense of irony and a reflection of a social reality.
The women in the novel, they all have underground love and secret lovers that cannot be known to outsiders.
Eva, who has an exotic beauty, and the famous writer Yi Guanggou and Yan Nian first cheated on the marriage professor while having children with other men, Xia Zihua is the lover of a married man, and at the same time gave birth to an illegitimate child, Xin Qi was raised by Hong Kong businessmen, these women are tacitly traded for money behind the high consumption of fashion.
Behind the glamorous "successful" women who step on high heels and walk with the wind have countless secrets.
Jia Pingwa, with the help of Si Yinan, a character in the novel, issued this sigh:
"What makes us fade, is greed? Is it jealousy? Is it the acquisition and pursuit of wealth and power? ”
In fact, this is also the author Jia Pingwa's rational judgment and moderate moderation of female desires.
The novel "Waste Capital" is full of oppressive, decadent and mournful atmosphere, and at the same time with a sharp edge, while the novel "Temporary Sitting", written by Jia Pingwo at the age of nearly seventy, is more peaceful, not to put out the hypocrisy, impetuousness, utilitarianism, depravity and other disheveled and indulgent of the city, but to return to a kind of plainness, telling several small stories about women, thus triggering the reader's deep thinking.
"Temporary Sitting" also has a calm self-ridicule and ridicule, telling the general and real way of life in the city.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="61" >03, sisterhood is vulnerable in the face of interests and desires</h1>
"Temporary Sitting" successfully depicts the daily life and pursuit of love of a group of economically independent and decent women in a modern city. Among the sisters in the novel, Hai Ruo is a well-deserved big sister, and they often gather at Hai Ruo's tea house to talk about each other's troubles and troubles.
One of the highlights of the novel is their sisterhood, which constructs the pulse of secular life. The tea house is a place for these women to live and die after the battle, and it is also a place of healing for them after the war with men, and the sisterhood soothes their inner wounds, and it is also a harbor for them to shelter from the wind and rain and warm each other.
The main clue of "Temporary Sitting" is Xia Zihua, who suffers from leukemia, the sisters of "Xijing Shiyu" take turns to go to the hospital to take care of and visit her, Xia Zihua is in urgent need of replacement platelets because of her serious condition, Lu Yike will not hesitate to spend a lot of money to find candidates who meet the blood type, in return, Hai Ruo will also recruit small high who donates platelets to work in his tea house.
After Xia Zihua's death, they paid for Xia Zihua to buy a good Lantian jade urn, and properly arranged a living place for her elderly and son.
Yu Benwen invited the sisters to dinner with the best materials, when Xin Qi divorced, Xi Lishui took her in and advised her, Xu Qi told the sisters the secret recipe of health care without reservation, and Si Yinan spared no effort to help Ying Lihou solve the rogue who touched the porcelain.
Hai Ruo, the owner of the tea house, gave the sisters a jade pendant worth tens of thousands of dollars each, like a family, Hai Ruo is like a big sister who cares for each sister, and shares with everyone as soon as there are good things, and these sisters will come to the tea house every time they have a social to take care of Hai Ruo's business.
However, it is in response to the old saying that there is no eternal friendship, only eternal interests.
In order to sell medical equipment to President Wang, Yan Nianchu did not hesitate to use his good friend Ying Li to curry favor with the dean later, she encouraged Ying Li to lend fifteen million to the friend of the hospital president Wang, who received a percentage of the interest, Yan Nianchu also made a huge profit because of the sale of medical equipment, what he did not expect was that President Wang's friend broke the chain of funds and ran away, Yan Nianchu immediately quit the role of guarantor, Ying Li's money was empty, and the intimate girlfriend turned against him.
Xiang Qiyu approached Fan Bosheng, did not hesitate to betray the privacy of his girlfriend, and told Fan Bosheng about the homosexual relationship between Si Yinan and Xu Qi as a joke, and Fan Bosheng approached Xiang Qiyu only to sponsor his own calligraphy and painting association.
The sisters have their own thoughts about the celebrity Yi Guang. They both maintain an unspeakable relationship with Yi Guang, but they hide from each other.
The affection between sisters is deep and long, but it is not able to compete with the worldly interests, and the sisterhood is vulnerable to desire.
Of course, we can't deny the sincere and sincere elements of sisterhood in its entirety, but when it comes to financial gain and male feelings, this girlfriend relationship is unusually fragile.
In the face of fame and fortune and their respective desires, this so-called "sisterhood" is instantly disintegrated and falls apart. No wonder the sisterly friendship written by Chen Yan:
Just like a poignant flower suspended in mid-air, although the fragrance is scattered and soft as water, this flower of life can only be suspended in mid-air forever, sublimation and burning or shattering and dying are desperate and destroyed.
Perhaps this is the truest human nature.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="63" > written at the end:</h1>
Life is a "temporary sitting", and everyone comes into the world to be "temporarily sitting".
Jia Pingwa's "Temporary Sitting" shows us the life of a group of unmarried and divorced women, although they have achieved economic independence, but their spiritual lack, unable to curb their desires and lusts, and finally plunged into the quagmire and unable to extricate themselves.
Today we are looking at other people's stories, do you know that you and I are all members of the story, because you and I are all people in the red dust, and we are just sitting in life? Perhaps after watching Mr. Jia Pingwa's "Temporary Sitting", you will have a new understanding of life, for life, wealth will have new thinking, temporary life, the most important thing.