The process of sexual popularization has not been smooth, and "The Heart of a Girl" has been widely disseminated since the 1970s, and it is the main work that the public security organs have repeatedly reported and copied. Many readers were criticized for copying the article, and even re-educated through labor for "hooliganism", but the article was forbidden for a long time.
Yang Jian of the Central Academy of Drama, which has long devoted himself to the study of cultural revolution literature, noted that until the mid-1980s, there were still teenagers copying and reading "The Heart of a Young Girl", and the manuscript was widely disseminated among the people in its unique way.
In 2001, in his book "Undercurrents——— manuscripts of the Cultural Revolution" in collaboration with publisher Bai Shihong, Zhou Xun took the lead in interviewing more than a dozen manuscript collectors (only three of which were published) in the form of a search, and wrote a 20,000-word article entitled "A Summary and Expression of the Manuscripts of the Cultural Revolution".
In Zhou Xun's interview with a "Mr. So-and-So-wood", "Mr. So-and-So- told his experience of copying the book, which shows the scene of the manuscript at that time:
"At that time, the copy was very hidden, after getting the manuscript, you divided it into several pages, I divided it into several pages, and then added copy paper, you could print five or six copies at a time, and then put it away after copying it and putting it together to piece it together, and then ordering it again, which became, so the handwriting of a manuscript copied down was completely different."
"There are a lot of small hills in Sichuan, there are a lot of scattered small grave bags on the hills, we go to the small grave bags to copy, where people go less, generally boys love to do this kind of thing, girls play more cover, help copy notes, not caught by the teacher." If you catch it, you can't do it, these are all some sealing repairs, you have to check the composition of your home, cancel your hardship allowance. ”
The transmission of manuscripts also had certain risks at that time. Zhu Dake had a classmate who paid the price for this:
"I have a classmate who, after watching 'Heart of a Girl,' fiercely pursues his own sister, who sent him to the police station crying. After being beaten up at the police station, he was released, and he stabbed his sister in the stomach that night.
"Before he was shot, a public trial meeting was held in the school playground, and for the first time in our lives, we witnessed this kind of killing horror. The police and militia were heavily armed and faced with great enemies, and the crimes were read out in loudspeakers, while we, the half-grown children, listened in horror. ”
Many years later, Zhu Dake can still clearly recall the expression of the classmate before he died: he carefully searched the class location in the crowd, and then he laughed at us freely, showing his yellow teeth.
At that time, the school for "The Heart of the Girl" and "The Second Handshake", there were three prohibitions, namely: not allowed to read, not allowed to copy, not allowed to pass; immediately report to the teacher.
In Li Gongming's memory, around 1974, there was also a sensational case, and a young man was sentenced to death for copying "The Heart of a Young Girl".
Zhou Xun consulted some records for this purpose, and in the "Collection of Research Papers on Juvenile Delinquency in Northwest China" printed by the Scientific Research Office of the Northwest University of Political Science and Law in May 1982 (the date of the concentrated occurrence of such cases), the article "Preliminary Investigation into the Causes of Juvenile Strategism and Crime" of the Youth and Youth Office of the Xining City Public Security Bureau in Qinghai Province mentioned that a young woman surnamed Jia had borrowed a manuscript of "The Heart of a Young Girl" from a friend, and when her friend asked for it, she refused to return it on the pretext of losing it, read it all day, and began to look for male hooligans.
In the book "Facing All Kinds of Cases" published by the Henan People's Publishing House in January 1985, the cases of sexual crimes committed by reading the manuscript of "The Heart of a Girl" are also numerous, especially one of them, "Behind a Colored Book", which is even more bizarre.
In the text, it is written that an active soldier named Li Jun, holding a copy of "The Heart of a Girl" with a color cover of "Popular Movies" all day long, was demented, first followed the girl into the women's toilet, and then played hooligans on the bus, and then raped and then killed the girlfriend of his comrade-in-arms who came to visit his relatives in the army, and finally was executed.
Zhou Xun, who has seen more than a dozen different versions of "The Heart of a Girl", believes that although "The Heart of a Girl" constantly adds the personal feelings and imaginations of the scribes in the process of copying, its subjects, whether it is the narrative language of sexual behavior or the detailed description, do not go beyond the scope of the introductory white description of the physiological hygiene part of the "Barefoot Doctor's Handbook".
"At that time, the hooligan cases that were circulated by the people and related to 'The Heart of a Young Girl' were to a certain extent caused by the 'confession format'. I found that the "confession" or "confession" material of the overwhelming majority of criminals in prisons is almost the same as the "old three" of the unspoken "old three" ——— briefly describing the criminal process, digging deep into the root of the crime, and practicing themselves on the line indefinitely, and then making up their minds to catch up with the same clichés, because reading "The Heart of a Girl" and committing a crime may also be the easiest reason to think of when digging deep into the motive for crime, because "Heart of a Girl" is known to everyone. ”
Zhou Xun does not agree that the sexual crimes of society are reduced to a book, and the literary text should not have so much effect, "If so, in today's world where it is easier to find sex books, rape crimes should obviously be more, but this is not the case." ”
4. Who the author really is, no one has ever known
Because of the continuous copying in the folk, the plot inevitably changes, and even everyone will read the version will be far different.
"Comparing more than a dozen versions, there is a clear mark of the times, and I remember that the shirt that was popular in the 80s also appeared on the description of the protagonist Manna's clothing."
In addition to "The Heart of a Girl" and "Memoirs of Manna", there are also "Memoirs of Meiru" and "Memoirs of Me and Me", but some versions do not write the title of the book, or directly add a book cover.
In 2004, Bai Shihong, who had been rumored to publish "The Heart of a Girl", got a version from the Danish female journalist Ye Fengying (Perrylink), about the origin of this "Heart of a Girl", which was introduced to the author "I" who signed "Xiao Si" and confessed when he was in prison, which was later copied out, and finally named "The Heart of a Girl", and later became the "big poisonous weed" during the "Cultural Revolution".
Zhou Xun also received a phone call saying that he had a relative who was a cadre of a procuratorate in Shandong Province and had handled the case.
"I was very excited to receive this call, the author of "The Heart of a Girl" is a mystery, and I and Bai Shihong were trying to find the author. So, I hurried to contact the other party again, but he could not provide this information, I said that I could rush to Shandong immediately to see the prosecutor, and he did not contact me later. ”
However, Zhu Dake believes that the heart of a young girl cannot be a "confession", "From my decades of literary research experience, its text is not like a confession, and "The Heart of a Girl" still has a certain literary character. ”
"As far as the book itself is concerned, it is a low-level pornographic literature that describes sexual life directly; but in the Cultural Revolution, it has a rebellious progressiveness, it is a dissolution and rebellion against ideology, it is also a rebellion against the ideology of society as a whole, a challenge to a imprisoned society."
Moro once wrote a preface for Bai Shihong's collated version, "At that time, Moro and Yu Jie were in the limelight, and Bai Shihong found Moro through friends, hoping that he could write a preface, at that time, Moro's preface could directly drive sales." Zhou Xun told reporters.
In the preface, Moro highly praises The Heart of a Girl, arguing that the Heart of a Girl is not intended to render the so-called yellow, but to express the absurdity caused by sexual taboos and the mental harm and distortion of human nature to the people.
Moro also speculated that the author was likely to have rich humanistic cultural resources, like Zhang Zhongxiao, Huang Xiang, Zhao Yifan, Kitajima and others, who were the most cultured and thoughtful people at that time.
This preface caused a relatively controversial situation at the time, and many people thought that a yellow novel was overrated and unreliable. In the evaluation of "Girl's Heart", there is a polarized situation. ”
But who the author is and why she wrote the book remains a curious mystery for both parties. "If we had found the author, maybe it might have been a good thing, maybe not necessarily."
Zhou Xun read two versions of The Second Handshake, "The manuscript "The Second Handshake" is only 8,000 to 10,000 words, but Zhang Yang later expanded to hundreds of thousands of words, if the author of "The Heart of the Girl" is still there, I don't know how she will expand, but I can be sure that the audience's interest will not be too big, sexual ambiguity has gradually disappeared, we can even see naked body advertisements on TV every day, as well as unintentional sexual innuendo." ”
(This article is excerpted and compiled from the Internet, thanks to the original author)