A few years ago, director Xu Anhua filmed a movie with Xiao Hong as the protagonist - "Golden Age", starring Tang Wei, Wang Zhiwen played Lu Xun, Yuan Wenkang, Feng Shaofeng, Zhu Yawen, Huang Xuan played several men who had emotional entanglements with Xiao Hong.
This movie had a great influence at that time, first, director Xu Anhua was very good at filming Republic of China dramas and female dramas, such as the highly acclaimed "Half Life" (the "First Burning Incense" that has not yet been released may break this law), second, the heroine is Tang Wei, Ang Lee commented that she grew a face that had read books, playing Xiao Hong, a genius-like female writer, is simply expected; third, the actors in this play are all acting masters, even if there are only a few supporting roles are actors such as Yuan Quan, Zu Feng, and Hao Lei. This movie has caused a lot of heat about Xiao Hong, but this heat may not have much to do with her literary style, and everyone is more concerned about her emotional entanglement. I am afraid that this is also an important reason why Xu Anhua chose Xiao Hong as the protagonist, because her short 31-year-old life and love life is shocking enough and exciting enough.
Before that, director Huo Jianqi also shot a movie called "Xiao Hong", starring Xiao Songjia, and the plot was very romantic. At the end of her life, Xiao Hong's long hair was scattered messily, smoking a cigarette in her mouth, she raised her hand and stroked her hair randomly, that kind of morbid charm, mixed with sexiness and vulnerability, not only hit Luo Binji who came to visit her, but also hit me in front of the screen.
Xiao Hong's life was very short, but the density was very large. When she was young, in order to escape the marriage contract, Xiao Hong left home alone, but life is not a novel, a weak girl can not gain a foothold in the big city, this escape ended with her fiancé Wang Enjia chasing her to the city and living together. Unfortunately, Wang Enjia was indeed not a good person, and during Xiao Hong's pregnancy, he disappeared. Xiao Hong, who owed the hotel rent for several months, wrote a letter to the newspaper to ask for help and met Xiao Jun.
Xiao Hong was married twice in her life, the first time she married Xiao Jun with Wang Enjia's child, and took the name that later caused a sensation in the literary world - Xiao Hong. Mr. Lu Xun, who has been playing pen battles with people in newspapers all his life, used his connections in Shanghai to actively promote the publication of Xiao Hong's works, and did the preface to "The Field of Life and Death" and Hu Feng did the post-preface for it. It is equivalent to a fledgling writer writing a debut work, Mo Yan took the initiative to write a preface for him, Wang Meng wanted to write a preface, and Liang Wendao, Yu Hua, Ma Yuan and other recommended words should be written on the waist seal, which is a great honor. "The Field of Life and Death" is well written enough, coupled with the escort of so many literary celebrities, Xiao Hong became famous in one fell swoop. Her marriage to Xiao Jun soon came to an end. Soon, Xiao Hong ushered in a second marriage, this time she was pregnant with the children of her ex-husband Xiao Jun and married Duanmu Hongliang, and this marriage was not long enough. At the age of 31, when Xiao Hong died, it was not her husband Duanmu Hongliang who was guarding her, but the young writer Luo Binji. Two years later, Dai Wangshu, the poet who wrote "Rain Lane", went to Repulse Bay in Hong Kong to mourn Xiao Hong, and wrote the famous poem "Xiao Hong's Tomb Pankou Zhan": "Walking a lonely long distance for six hours, putting a bouquet of red mountain tea next to your head, I waited, the long night was long, but you lay down and listened to the gossip of the waves." ”
In the Republic of China era, literary talents were born, and it is strange that no matter how high the achievements of female writers and the literary style are, it seems that what attracts the attention of modern people is emotional gossip. For example, two female writers who do not deal with Lin Huiyin and Bing Xin. Bing Xin lived for a century, constantly praising love, "Send a Little Reader" and "Little Orange Lantern" were written in language textbooks, and we have the impression that she is a kind grandmother, a respected writer, although we have not read her other works. Perhaps because her feelings are too smooth and too bland, lack of gossip, lack of talking points, she can only stay in our young textbooks as an old man. But Lin Huiyin is different, whether it is the director or the screenwriters, has always wanted to put her story on the screen, Gao Xiaosong kept saying that he wanted to make a movie about her, but it was very difficult. She was a great architect, a poet, a writer, one of the designers of the national emblem and the Monument to the People, but little is known about that. Although her works were not selected for the Chinese textbook, the teacher will definitely mention her when talking about "Farewell to Kangqiao", and talk about her entanglement with Liang Sicheng, Xu Zhimo, and Jin Yuelin with a sense of mystery of sharing secrets. Not to mention that Lin Huiyin's beauty is recognized, such a beautiful woman and talented woman, and how many talents will not be disgusting, but add to her charm.
Zhang Ailing said, If a woman does not get the love of the opposite sex, she often does not get the respect of the same sex, and women are this. The same applies to women writers. Modern people, especially young people, do not read Zhang Ailing's works seriously, but her love affair with Hu Lancheng and the ambiguity with Sang Arc are probably more widely circulated. In the film and television works about Zhang Ailing, Zhang Hulian is the main plot, a young female writer who is the most prestigious and noble born in Shanghai Beach, a wang puppet regime, a personable government official, how suitable the two are to write on entertainment gossip and gossip for people to talk about. Even if the two have really been together for only two years, they have become a symbol that Zhang Ailing cannot be stripped away and mentioned again and again.
I don't know if it should be said that this is the luck or misfortune of female writers, because of these affairs, they have been active in people's gossip, never outdated, and because of these affairs, they have covered up people's attention to their works.