Zhao Shuli (1906-1970), formerly known as Zhao Shuli, was a modern novelist, people's artist, and founder of the Yam Egg Pie. "Little Two Black Marriage" is a short story written by modern novelist Zhao Shuli in 1943, which depicts the story of a young man and woman in the Liberated Area during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression who finally married in order to pursue marriage freedom, break through feudal traditions and the obstruction of their conservative parents. Through the contrast between these two pairs of peasants with diametrically opposed ideological concepts, the novel reveals the shackles of the feudal remnants of the old customs in the countryside at that time on people's ideological behavior, as well as the conflicts and changes in consciousness between the new and old generations, explains the importance of carrying out democratic reform and changing customs, and at the same time praises the power of democratic power and reflects the major changes in the liberated areas.
In April 1943, the author Zhao Shuli learned from a relative of the landlord who went to the county to file a complaint that the nephew of the relative, yue Dongzhi, was the leader of the militia squad in the village, because he had a free love affair with a handsome woman named Zhi Yingxiang who moved into the mountains from Wu'an County, Hebei Province, and was persecuted to death by several bad people who controlled the village government on the "crime of corruption". After several interrogations, the county government made the case clear and punished the murderer according to law, and when Zhao Shuli went to the village where the crime occurred to investigate, he found that neither the victim's family sympathized with Yue Dong solstice and Zhi Yingxiang's "free love", but instead thought that it was not right to kill Yue Dong solstice, but it was natural to teach him a lesson, and other people in the village actually held the same argument. At that time, the base area had just promulgated the "Law on obstructing marriage and punishing crimes," and Zhao Shuli believed that young people's free love and marriage should be supported and protected, and in order to solve this common social problem and enhance the ideological consciousness of the masses, he was determined to use Yue Dong Solstice as a prototype to stimulate people's insensitivity and indifference to the nerves of being fooled by traditional habits and to save them from the shackles of the old feudal forces. Zhao Shuli carefully conceived and wrote "Little Two Black Marriage" in May.
"Little Two Black Marriage" is Zhao Shuli's famous work. The structure of the novel is complete, the plot is ups and downs, the language is popular, and it is rich in local colors, and it flows out of the reflection on the real society and makes great contributions to solving the problems of the times at that time. Zhao Shuli's criticism borrowed from the technique of book review, opened up a new style of book review, and achieved a form that the Chinese people liked to hear. Its outstanding achievements are mainly manifested in the following aspects: depicting new heavens and new people, reflecting new lives and themes; creating a national form that is popular with the Chinese people - the "new commentary style", which provides artistic experience for the popularization and popularization of modern Chinese novels; creates a vivid and plump character image; and has a strong shanxi regional color.
Since its publication, the novel has been adapted into a variety of art forms such as films, Yu operas, commentaries, operas, and comic strips. Peng Dehuai once commented that there are few popular stories like this written from the investigation and study of the masses. Zhou Yang, former chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, "The Marriage of Little Two Blacks" is the most outstanding work reflecting the rural struggle, and it is also a representative work of literature and art in the Liberated Areas. Ou Jiajin, director of the China Mao Dun Research Association, pointed out that the emergence of "Little Two Black Marriages" is a primrose that has undergone complete changes in the Chinese literary scene for thousands of years. In 1962, after Mao Zedong watched the film of the commentary drama "Little Erhei Married", he praised it as "reasonable and charming", and praised the performance of Zhao Lirong, the actor of the Three Immortals in the play. When he met Xin Fengxia, he also asked, "Why didn't the Three Immortals, who had been with you, come?" Xin Fengxia said: "Zhao Lirong feels that her foundation is shallow and her education level is not high, and she can't say a word when she sees you, and she needs to temper a lot, so let me say hello to you." Mao Zedong listened to the humor and said: "Unexpectedly, this Three Immortals is still a modest person, good, good!" Humility makes people progress!"
"Little Erhei Marriage" has a lot of classic language, easy to understand, popular population, such as: Liu Jiayue has two immortals, neighboring villages everyone knows: one is the former Zhuang on the Er zhuge ge, the other is the Hou Zhuang on the Three Immortals. The old people pinned all their hopes on this son who was about to gasp after digging a few nests of sweet potatoes, so they married him a decent daughter-in-law. Other large villages have set up village offices, women's rescue associations, and armed forces committees, but Liu Jiajiao is not willing to be a cadre except for a village chief sent by the county government. Based on the novel adaptation of the Yu opera classic "Little Erhei Marriage" famous paragraph Qingling Ling's water and blue sky is even more well-known, the lyrics are roughly written: Xiao Qin I washed clothes to the river, Erhei Brother County to open the hero meeting, he said that today is going home to turn. I also waited for the back of the future, stood still and fidgeted, and carried my mother to wash clothes. The day you go to the meeting, the villagers will send you to the outside of the village, and I have the heart to say a word to you, there are many people, there are many people with miscellaneous eyes, and I dare not come forward.