Sixteen or seventeen-year-old young men and women, it is the rainy season. Their love sinuses have just opened, and the beauty of youth is throbbing in their shyness and ignorance. However, according to the Japanese Meiji period writer Higuchi Kazuhachi, those women who are either cute and beautiful or kind and well-behaved have no chance to taste the sweetness of love.
Higuchi's "Green Plum Bamboo Horse" was first introduced by Lu Xun and specially recommended by Zhou Zuoren, and was called "the most beautiful love novel" by Yu Hua. Her novels, mainly love and marriage stories, are mostly written about the unfortunate lives of the people at the bottom. The hero and heroine love but not love, and "death" is the theme of her love story.
First, the bud of broken love.
Zhou Zuoren greatly admired Higuchi's novels, praising them for "observing spirits and words with gods; genius is supreme, and transcendence is supreme." "She does not have a vigorous love scene between Qingqing and me, and describes the love of young men and women in the bud, the love that ends before it is exported, even the grass on the side of the road and the road surface that has just been cleared in front of the door are mourning.
In the novella "Green Plum Bamboo Horse", Shinru and Midori have little communication, but there is always an undercurrent in their hearts. On that day, Xinru, for some reason, was unusual, lost his usual composure, tripped over the pine roots by the pond, his fingers were inserted into the yellow mud road, and the sleeves of his coat were also full of mud. Coincidentally, Midenley was on the sidelines. "The always steady and introverted Letter Ru, isn't it because he saw Midori on the side that he panicked and was confused?
What about Midori? When he saw that the person who had lost his umbrella in the rain was Xinru, he blushed instantly, as if he had encountered something unusual, and his heart began to flutter. "She was afraid that someone would see her like this, and with timidity, she cautiously approached the lattice door."
Afraid that others will find out about their feelings, the two young men and women carefully care for their own fiery hearts, just like the shyness and panic when we saw the opposite sex when we were young. Reading this, I can't help but think of myself more than twenty years ago, sitting on the back seat of my crush's bamboo horse, a pair of small hands with nowhere to go. Along the way, he carefully searched for topics, both for fear of embarrassment in silence and for fear of leaving a frivolous impression on the bamboo horse by saying too much. This only "intimate" encounter we had when we grew up was just like that. Even after returning to school, I thought he couldn't sleep, even if the adults on both sides joked about marrying Qin Jinzhi, he never opened his mouth to reveal his true feelings.
Why did Midori and Shinru love so cryptically? In addition to shyness, perhaps because of their destined identity. A flower queen's sister, how many men are waiting for her to grow up to be a prostitute to prostitute her. The son of a monastery abbot, ashamed of his parents' lust for money, aspires to become a serious monk who does not eat meat in the future.
The insurmountable gap of fate allows two young people who have a good feeling for each other to move along their respective tracks in parallel, without intersecting. The bud of love has not yet broken the ground, and it has died.
Second, a good woman is not born at the right time, and eventually dies of love
In the modern Meiji society where Ichiba lived, there were all kinds of unspoken repression, women in patriarchal and patriarchal societies could only become appendages of men, and the huge gap between rich and poor forced women to make sacrifices. Yiye's family is poor, and the two relationships are short and unfortunate. At the age of seventeen, after the death of his father, Noriyoshi, he was betrayed by Saburo Shibuya, the object of the marriage contract, and the marriage contract was torn up. At the age of nineteen, he met Hani Momomizu, a reporter for the Tokyo Asahi Shimbun, and the relationship ended in no uncertain terms. The love in her works is also mostly poignant.
Ah Di in "Buried Wood" is sixteen or seventeen years old, wearing a washed white single coat. Compared with the women of the same age who wear newly dyed single clothes, wear popular belts, and sway in a swaying posture, she is not ashamed of herself. Because her heart only thinks of her brother, she would rather transfer all the luck that should be had in this life to her brother, so that his pottery painting technology will be recognized by the world and add glory to the deceased second elder. In a word, the brother's disciple Tatsuo returned with an aura of success. He not only promises to help his brother realize his dreams, but also releases his good feelings to the beautiful and simple Ah Di. Atie worshipped this heroic figure as a god. It's just a conspiracy. The siblings eventually went to tragedy.
"Poor Atie is a white and flawless body, not stained with dirt, not stained with evil deeds, she has been grinding her heart in poverty... What broke this eighteen-year-old flawless jade was the magic obstacle of love. ”
Ah Xie in "Xingyun" is a girl with outstanding appearance and good manners. She carefully deals with her arrogant stepmother, cares about her father's feelings, and cannot even seek death in order not to shame his father. Katsuraji is a student who lives in A-Suo's house, and sympathizes with and deeply loves the gentle, beautiful, and skillful A-Suo. The righteous father who sponsored Gui ci's school is his future father-in-law, and there is a humble girl in the family, Ah Zuo, who is ready to marry him. In the face of his righteous father's urging, Gui Ci had mixed feelings and poured out his admiration to Ah Suo. However, the reclusive Ah Sue hides his true feelings, pretends not to understand Katsuraji's fiery love, and responds negatively like a person made of wood. The lost Guiji can only leave ah sue's house with nostalgia. After Gui Ci left, reading Gui Ci's letter became ah sue's most joyful thing. However, the unreliable thing in this world is indeed the heart of a man, and Katsuraji's letters are getting less and less, and finally they only become annual Greeting Cards. Ah Suo became more and more "cold". Who knew that this girl's heart had also been hot and had expectations?
Perhaps imperfect blank space can give people unlimited reverie, like Venus with a broken arm, and the story of love and not being able to pull the reader's heartstrings more. Ichiba's novel is soaked with the sadness of women who can't speak, which is also the sadness of Ichiba. She once said, "I was born into this world to soothe the pain and disappointment of women in this world." She used her miserable and short life to leave us with beautiful works. All we can say is: Thank you, Ichiba. You and your story will live on forever.