Wang Anyi's "Long Hate Song", slightly negative, but delicate like soft sand through the sieve, truly depicts a woman's life, deep desire, and desire for love. This book once won the Mao Dun Literature Award, the tone of the novel is cold and humorous, delicate and moving,
Confucius said: "Men and women who eat and drink, the great desire of man."
Zhang Ailing, a famous female writer, changed the punctuation of this sentence to a certain position and became: "Eat men, women are big desires." "Chinese civilization for five thousand years, such a long period of time and occasions, most of the time women are imprisoned, bound. For a long time, it seemed to be only an appendage of the male regime and the possession of the family.
Much of today's Chinese literature focuses on women's self-awareness and struggle against reality. This is not feminism, but the cry of women as an independent being, eager to be noticed and understood.
In "Long Hate Song", the love and affection of the heroine Wang Qiyao in the female writer Wang Anyi's forty years are constantly changing along with the changes of the times and the changes of the years, and at the same time, through the perspective of a woman, she has witnessed the changes in Shanghai.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="01" > woman living in the alley, Wang Qiyao</h1>
Shanghai's alleys are diverse, it represents the atmosphere of Life in Shanghai, it is the style of Shanghai. The heroine Wang Qiyao lives here, she is full of the unique atmosphere of the Shanghai alley, she is gentle and lovely, close as the girl next door, and her personality is never ostentatious. At the age of 16, she was still a student who was looking forward to the future, but she did not expect to win the third place in the "Miss Shanghai Selection", and was called "Three Misses" and became the representative of Shanghai Shuyuan.
People are often like this, a life of undisturbed waves, orderly steps, there will always be a sudden disruption of the existing balance. Maybe it was a different life at once.
Although the presentation may be more intense in literary works, the plot of the novel is designed to be derived from life. Isn't each of our lives faced with such a sudden surprise every day?
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="02" > six men who have met in their lives starting with "beauty"</h1>
Wang Qiyao's life like white paper has since become a lot of ink. No one cared about her heart, her past, her dreams. The first thing people see is her body and beauty, and they only care about her body and beauty. All beautiful things are often easy to arouse men's desire for possession.
The first man was Director Li.
She met two people, one was Mr. Cheng and the other was Director Li. Mr. Cheng can give her love, but Director Li can give her a "Shanghai big world". She may not love Director Li so much, but Director Li can let her live in Alice's apartment and let her have everything she wants. Even as a "nurturing" mistress.
Reading this, Wang Qiyao seems to have some "love for vanity", but in a turbulent era, a stable life is the premise of everything. At this point, Wang Qiyao's choice seems to be beyond reproach. The union of two people, one is to covet beauty, the other is to covet material things. Wang Qiyao's heart, like the soup of Shanghai, is deep and shallow, with twists and turns.
A few years later, due to the chaos of the war, Director Li's plane crashed. Her life was unsupported. After liberation, she relied on a job as a nurse to earn a low-key life for a meager income.
The second man, named Ah Er.
In the novel, it is mentioned that Wang Qiyao met Ah Er in Wuqiao, a young student who had just opened his heart. Wang Qiyao's magnificence and beauty made Ah Er, who was full of fantasies about life, unable to hold on. Wang Qiyao fulfilled his physical desires, but refused to entrust his future to a country boy. Her heart is always in Shanghai, and she will eventually go back.
The third man, she had loved.
His name is Cummingson, and he is a man who Wang Qiyao knows that he cannot combine but refuses to let go. Cumminson may not really love her, but the thirty-year-old woman is no longer naïve, she has fantasies about him, but also knows that he will eventually disappear. She secretly conceived his child, a child she wanted, because she represented their beautiful love and was also a thought.
The fourth man, Sasha.
Sasha was the man who carried the pot for Cumison. Wang Qiyao just looked at his background. He was an international mestizo of the proletariat. Two people live together, but without feelings.
The fifth man, Mr. Cheng.
Mr. Cheng was the first to appear, but only after Sasha had the opportunity to be with Wang Qiyao. He spent a long time loving her and spending a long time with him. In the novel, it is said that "Mr. Cheng has not changed, but she has changed." What Mr. Cheng has not changed is that infatuated heart, and Wang Qiyao is no longer the little girl she once was. Emotionally, she is more concerned about what practical value she has with this person. It was not that she had never thought of being with Mr. Cheng. But only for the sake of "guilt" and "retribution". In 1966, Mr. Cheng committed suicide due to persecution, and Wang Qiyao's most reliable bottom line was lost.
Feelings are such things, with the mentality of "repaying favors" with people they don't like, and they tend to owe more. If Wang Qiyao understood this, he should also let Mr. Cheng go free as soon as possible.
The sixth man, Old Clal.
A middle-aged woman who falls in love with an old Cra who is the same age as herself. The literary and artistic youth of the new era have a nostalgic heart and meet the legendary Shanghai celebrity. Wang Qiyao may not be able to love this boy much. It's more about eliminating loneliness and desire.
A generation of Shanghai Shuyuan has finally become a "desired woman". But looking back on her life, in addition to the slightest guilt for Mr. Cheng, she completely toyed with men between the palms of her hands and hung up on her feelings. However, the ending is not complete.
Wang Qiyao's daughter moved to the United States, and old Kera can help her soothe the pain of loneliness and physical emptiness. But when she wanted to go one step further with Old Clal, Old Crane flinched.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="03" > love, beauty is scattered with the wind</h1>
Wang Qiyao died at the hands of thieves.
The thief entered the house, originally asking for money, and she just hid. However, she seemed to have the idea of seeking death, and slowly walked out, and was strangled to death by the thief's "heart". The life of a generation of "Shanghai Shuyuan" has come to an end.
It seemed that through old Clara, she saw the indifference of the world to her. But it doesn't matter, she has lived a splendid life in this world. Whether it is material or erotic, she chooses according to her own heart. Whether the men had loved her or not, looked into her eyes, they were all hurried passers-by in their own lives. And I was a hurried visitor in this alley.
Her soul drifted away, her body cooled, and life in the alley continued.
Wang Qiyao is not a chaste and martyr, she is just a woman living in the context of changing times. She was "human" at the time of survival. Cheng Zhu Lixue was also abandoned by Wang Yangming because of his excessive "saving heavenly reason to remove people's desires".
Here we are not saying that all moral norms can be abandoned for the sake of "human desire", but for women, in addition to beauty and body, the soul's deep desire for love and the pursuit of happiness should also be the place where people pay the most attention.
Wang Anyi's works, from "Long Hate Song" to "Peach Dream", are all set in the story of the Shanghai alley, describing the emotional story of the women in it. The delicacy and emotional fluctuations of the female body jump on the paper, what they do, the people they love, are not worthy of the annals of history, but they have condensed the shadows of many ordinary people.