Su Tong's novel "Red Pink" is a story about a man and two women. The protagonists in the story are two women in the Qinglou Building, the love-hate relationship between them and a prostitute, and their fate and fate after being rescued by the government. Through the heroine Qiu Yi's bumpy and tragic life course, it shows the marginalized women who are struggling to survive in the bottom line, and the contradiction gathers these two valuable qualities: "chivalry" and "filial piety".
The story focuses on portraying two women who have just been liberated from the brothel and are waiting for the transformation of the new society: Qiu Yi and Xiao Calyx. Qiu Yi is fierce, strong, and assertive, and dares to stand up and fight in the face of the tragic reality, and there is a rare "chivalrous" atmosphere in her.
The words and deeds and fate of the wind and dust woman Qiu Yi can most intuitively and most strongly highlight the atmosphere of "chivalry" and the strength of "chivalry". The "chivalrous" spirit looming on Qiu Yi's body mainly reflects her dare to be bold and has a sense of righteousness.
The heroines and heroines in martial arts novels are often martial arts masters, have strange temperaments, and their lives are also quite legendary, or they are highly instructed and famous; or they are isolated from the world and devote themselves to cultivation. Qiu Yi is completely different from the heroine in the martial arts novel, she comes from a poor and lowly family at the bottom of society, has nothing but poverty, has no dazzling aura above her head, and is in a period of complex and changeable social transformation in which contradictions are concentrated.
She came all the way from the brothels of the old society, mechanically waiting for the transformation of the new society, hoping to be able to live the life of a normal woman, marrying, having children, supporting the elderly, and raising the young; she was looking forward to such a life, even if it was plain, as long as she could find emotional and spiritual sustenance, she was also content, her wish was realistic and weak, but the ever-changing social situation doomed her fate to be many disasters and difficulties, bumpy and uneven, plus the man Lao Pu who had placed infinite affection on her.
Lao Pu is a man who has no sense of trust and responsibility at all, he chose silence and gave up when Qiu Yi needed it most, so Qiu Yi was marginalized by material society and marginalized by the emotion of suspicion.
She resolutely chose to leave LaoPu and run to another life "renunciation", she was bold, determined, and did not drag mud and water. Qiu Yi's body is full of a mighty and upright spirit; she dares to do what she dares to do, she has the spiritual quality of "chivalry" who sees the road unevenly and draws her sword to help each other, and she dares to fight against the powerful secular world, even if it has no effect.
The form of society has undergone a fundamental change, the women who used to linger in the Qinglou are waiting for the transformation of the new society, Qiu Yi was finally rescued from the depths of the water by the powerful newborn people's power, and when she followed the new social soldiers out of Cuiyunfang, she bit the burnt cake in her mouth and walked toward the truck while eating, Qiu Yi said: "Why don't you eat?" The death row must have a good meal before the head is killed. Say it is to check for venereal diseases, casually, anyway, I am tired of living, killing my head I am not afraid. ”
Here, we seem to be able to find the most real and glorious humanity in Qiu Yi, she has a kind of "drunk in this dynasty and drunk in this dynasty" of the capable style and straightforward feelings.
Later, she accompanied the timid and cowardly calyx for a physical examination, and in front of several female military doctors, "Qiu Yi turned over and said: Can't you let go of farts?" Who is responsible for the rise and death? In her opinion, whether it is a female military doctor who is sitting in a precarious position or a new social soldier with guns, in fact, all the superficial identities have faded, and in the end they are men or women with flesh and blood and desire.
Although Qiu Yi is at the bottom of society, her observation and understanding of society and people is profound and close to the true state of life.
She was quick-witted and insightful, and her actions made the tense nerves of the women waiting outside for the medical examination a little easier, and they all laughed together, but the female military doctor was very tired and shouted, "No hip-hop, do you think this is a kiln?" From this point of view, the transformation of Qiu Yi and her companions is facing many practical tests and challenges, and even in the new society, people still maintain a high degree of vigilance and rejection of low-level prostitutes, and the transformation of prostitutes is undoubtedly difficult and long.
An important feature of the "chivalrous woman" is that she dares to think and dare to do it, and has the courage to take responsibility Often at a critical moment, she shows her ability, purity, decisiveness, righteousness, and courage to move forward, of course, there will be "chivalrous women" who have died nine times, and the legendary life and fate of the desperate life have ebbed and flowed.
Qiu Yi found that the military vehicle carried them away from the familiar city, and when she realized that she was about to lose her rare freedom and happiness, she had a lot of cold sweat on her hands, and decisively "squeezed Xiao Cai's fingers hard, jumped and jumped out of the truck, and Xiao Cai saw Qiu Yi's body rubbing on the brick wall of the city gate and bouncing back to the ground." Qiu Yi quickly got up from the ground, she kicked off her high heels, barefoot, one hand picked up the qipao horn and flew away Qiu Yi ran very fast in the blink of an eye and ran out of the city gate hole and disappeared.
It is not difficult for us to see that the spirit and courage of the "chivalrous woman" are vividly reflected in Qiu Yi. She was well aware of the consequences of jumping into the car, either falling to her death or being shot and killed by the soldiers in the car, but she couldn't take care of so much, her bet was very big and heavy, it was her splendid life, it was a glorious history that had not really begun, but she still did not hesitate to think so, and did so.
From a certain degree of view, her leap jumped out of her experience and choice of confusing and repeated love, her feelings and fission of suffering and sharing, true friendship, concern for life and death, and deep affection. Qiu Yi and Xiao Cai are close friends who share hardships and hardships, and the weak and timid, even somewhat cowardly Little Calyx has always shown too much dependence on the strong Qiu Yi.
In the traditional moral system, it is not allowed to betray a friend, as the saying goes, "a friend's wife shall not be deceived," of course, there is also a saying that "a friend's husband cannot be paid." Otherwise, when faced with the infinite temptation of carnal desires and material desires, Xiao Calyx in the work painfully chose to possess and vent in contradictions, and she entrusted herself to Lao Pu, the man in Qiu Yi's heart, and this selfish choice of course also means a betrayal of "friendship" and should be condemned or even spurned by public opinion.
Later, the night when Lao Pu was shot, in addition to loneliness that hung over Xiao Calyx's heart, it was more fear and coldness, at this time, Qiu Yi came to Xiao Cai's side, qiu Yi said, "You don't leave me and I won't leave, I am here to accompany you, after all, the sisters are a."
At midnight, XiaoCao and Qiu Yi made up a bed and slept, and the two people slept head to head and hugged each other. Qiu Yi said: "This quilt still has the smell of Lao Pu's head oil on the head." Qiu Yi spent that long dark and gloomy night with Xiao Calyx, she did not have the slightest complaint or resentment, at this moment, what lingered in her heart was the remembrance and remembrance of the lost life, and the tolerance and care for the small calyx that was once a close friend.
It is not difficult to imagine that when Xiao Calyx and Lao Pu were married, the meaning of the gift of an umbrella given by Qiu Yi was also her chivalrous and heroic performance. This umbrella has two meanings:
One is to imply that Xiao Calyx has made a taboo of betraying her friends and cut off friendship with her; the second is that Qiu Yi, who is aware of what kind of person Lao Pu is, indicates that Xiao Cao and Lao Pu will not have a good ending when they marry, implying that she will not have a so-called "home" in the future, and when she leaves, she still has this "umbrella" to cover the wind and rain, and she can also remember that her former friends will help with the difficulties.
The "chivalrous woman" who cherishes love and righteousness, qiu yi, who is struggling at the bottom of society, knows very well that the hardships and confusion of life, the greed and hatred of desire. But she seems powerless to change this worldly world, she trekked hard in the bumpy journey of life, in the special period of transition between the old and new society, she faced not only eating, dressing, and sleeping, but also the lack of emotion, spiritual imbalance and loss of faith.
In the rich and profound traditional culture, "filial piety is the foundation of virtue," and filial piety comes first. It can be seen that "filial piety" is the first element of standing on the path.
To be a man, to accomplish things, and to live in the world, we must pursue filial piety, and "righteousness" is also the ultimate goal of moral cultivation and the main orientation of the value of life that the Chinese people respect and pursue. Usually, the core content of traditional morality is "filial piety", "righteousness" and "benevolence". "Righteousness" should be the basic moral norm that people should follow when dealing with people in the world, have a strong tolerance, refuse the temptation of material and interests, and do not harm and betray others, especially friends, in exchange for their own interests and development. "Filial piety" is also a virtue advocated by our Chinese nation, and there is no distinction between nationalities and regions.
The Book of Filial Piety states: "No sin is greater than filial piety", and filial piety is a great sin. The Book of Filial Piety also says, "Filial piety begins with relatives, loyalty to the king, and final establishment." The most basic "filial piety" is to support parents. "Filial piety" includes not only the material aspect, but also the spiritual aspect.
Qiu Yi wanted to go home at first, and the rickshaw she was riding in had reached the shantytown where she grew up, with many children chasing and frolicking on cinder roads, and the air was full of dripping clothes and diapers. She asked again about the familiar sour smell of poverty and squalor. Qiu Yi saw her blind old father sitting in the doorway peeling broad beans, her aunt rolling up her sleeves to catch pickles from a jar, and above their heads was the tattered linoleum roof, where a cat was crouching... When passing by her father' side, Qiu Yi took a large square ring from her finger and threw it into the bowl containing fava beans, and her father did not even know that he was still intently peeling the fava beans... This made Qiu Yi feel a kind of heart-wrenching pain. ”
According to this inference, Qiu Yi, who was once a woman in the Qinglou Building, has a strong sense of "filial piety" in her heart, and the identity of the wind and dust woman has not been able to obliterate or erase the truest family affection in her heart. At this moment, Qiu Yi, who is searching for a place to stay, is struggling between poverty and glitz.
She was afraid of poverty, afraid of losing everything gorgeous, she wanted to go home, she hesitated, hesitated, and finally chose to flee and hide, trying to return to the beautiful original intention of family affection was first challenged by materialism. After this painful struggle, Qiu Yi resolutely rejected and rejected poverty and squalor, and her strong material desires overcame the call of deep affection in her heart. We can't simply regard Qiu Yi's escape as a kind of betrayal or cowardice, let alone deny the pure and sincere "filial piety" of her family affection in her heart. She seems to have found no way or way to release the strong feelings of "filial piety", and what she can do may only be to pluck the large square ring from her hand and throw it into her father's bowl containing broad beans; in her opinion, the large square ring is of great value, and for the elderly father, she should be able to temporarily help him solve the difficulties of life, which is also Qiu Yi's long-cherished wish as a daughter for many years.
The greatest misfortune in life is that "the son wants to be raised but does not wait for her" For Qiu Yi, she is still wandering and helpless in the hardships of life, as a "filial daughter", she has not yet fulfilled her filial piety, her father is far away from her life, leaving her with endless mourning and imagination. The deep affection between Qiu Yi and the blind old father is difficult to blow away, and the father-daughter relationship that is inadvertently and forever missed. It was qiu yi who buried the regret in her heart, what she had not been able to vent in her filial piety, and what was left for her was only endless mourning and sorrow.
Qiu Yi is undoubtedly a bitter girl who tried to rise in a difficult situation, but had to admit her fate after all kinds of efforts, all her struggles and struggles were ultimately empty, and at the same time, she was also a "downcast" and "filial piety keeper" who struggled between conscience and material desires.
Qiu Yi's care and reluctance for family affection is a natural flowing emotion, which is not covered up and whitewashed in the slightest, which is also a rare and valuable character and disposition on her body.
In the nunnery, when she heard that her elderly blind father had been hit by a car accident and never opened her eyes again, she wept bitterly while guarding the spirit, and this kind of crying might also ease her own miss and worry about her father, or it could dispel the unspeakable pain and grief in her heart. Later, she returned to play with Tsuki-an in filial piety. "As a form of filial piety, mourning is based on human emotions as the internal basis, out of the natural requirements of emotions, and not by external artificial coercion." Obviously, here Qiu Yi shows the tender side of a "chivalrous" woman who breaks through the turmoil of the world, she is attached to family affection and abides by filial piety, and she is a "chivalrous" woman full of tenderness.
The display of Qiu Yi's bumpy encounters and the recognition of her valuable character are the sublimation of her humanity, reflecting the difficult life situation of women who have fallen into the dust during the transition period of the new and old society, and the emotions of struggling in the dilemma of choice. In the intricate interweaving of rational "feelings" and emotional "desires", even if she resists and struggles, it is ultimately futile, and all kinds of efforts and struggles cannot change the helplessness and cruelty of the real world. Of course, she could not achieve the salvation of her emotions and fate, and in the end, she had no choice but to marry an old and ugly old man. As a result, Qiu Yi also became a female figure in the society at that time who had flesh and blood, feelings and righteousness.
The man in the story, Lao Pu, is a stubborn disciple before liberation, once a rich second generation, the times have created him a gentleman, uninhibited, wind and snow life has no opinion, so that he "should not get married when he should get married, and should not get married when he wants to get married" situation.
Death to face the guilt, poor and poor to get married also to talk about pomp, with the little calyx pregnant, in the old mother to nibble on the old woman's property for the small calyx held a luxurious wedding.
I have to say that the situation has changed, at this time and another, Lao Pu is very affectionate and righteous to Xiao Cai, preferring to nibble on the old man and hold a wedding for her; after marriage, he promised not to let her work, he did it; later in order to give her a better life, he took risks, embezzled public funds, and was finally sentenced to death. There is no doubt that Lao Pu's life is also a tragedy, ruined by women, ruined by his life of ignorance.
"The ignorance of childhood is lovely, the ignorance of youth is ridiculous, the ignorance of youth is pitiful, the ignorance of middle age is lamentable, and the ignorance of old age is sad" Lao Pu has completed his pitiful and sad life.
Some people say: "A woman's good job is not as good as marrying well In fact, marrying well contains too many meanings, both a good family and a good character, but people will become, the environment will also become, who can guarantee a moment and a lifetime? ”
In the Ming Dynasty novel "Du Shiniang's Angry Sinking Treasure Chest", Du Shiniang, a famous prostitute in Beijing, entrusted her life to Li Jia, a student of tai, in order to redeem herself. But Li Jia was weak and selfish, although du shiniang was also truly in love, but he succumbed to the concept of etiquette and religion in the society, coupled with The provocation of Sun Fu, he eventually betrayed Du Shiniang, resulting in the tragedy of Du Shiniang's caisson throwing himself into the river.
It can be seen that modern women want to get their own happiness, to awaken, to struggle, to scream. Achieving economic independence is the only way to achieve inner independence; productive women will regain transcendence, get rid of self-deception, take the initiative to recognize their social responsibilities, and have the courage to take responsibility, in order to have true freedom. A blessed family life is a source of happiness for women.
It is true that their poetic and harmonious habitat also requires true equality between men and women, and even more social change and the eventual liberation of human nature.
Qiu Yi is undoubtedly a symbol of a contemporary woman who lives at the lowest level who is not willing to fall and struggles with chivalry and filial piety.