Reading notes: 2021.1
Book title: "Sitting Temporarily"
Publishing organization: Publishing House of Writers
Publishing time: 2020
About the author:
Jia Pingwa, whose real name is Jia Pingwa, was born on February 21, 1952 in Dihua Town, Danfeng County, Shaanxi Province. He is a contemporary Chinese writer
In 1973, he published his work "A Pair of Socks". In 1975, he graduated from the Chinese Department of Northwest University. After graduation, he served as the literary editor of Shaanxi People's Publishing House and the editor of "Chang'an" literary monthly, and engaged in literary editing work.
In 1982, he joined the Xi'an Federation of Literary and Art Circles as a full-time writer and engaged in professional creation. Later he became a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, chairman of the Shaanxi Provincial Writers Association, and a deputy to the Xi'an Municipal People's Congress. In 1986, he published the novel "Impetuous", which tells the story of the protagonist Jin Gou's several ups and downs in life.
Honorary Awards:
2020-12-18 Ranked 142nd in the "Top 500 Chinese Brand Figures 2020". ? (Award-winning)
2018 The First Peking University Wang Moren-Zhou Anyi World Chinese Literature Prize "Ji Hua" (Award-winning)
2012 The Second Zhu Ziqing Prose Award ? (Award-winning)
2011 Shi Naian Literary Award? "Ancient Furnace"? (winning)
2008 The 7th Mao Dun Literary Award? "Qin Opera"? (winning)
2006 World Chinese Novel Award? (Award-winning)
2005 The Third Lu Xun Literature Award? "Selected Long Prose by Jia Pingwa" (Award-winning)
1997 French Femina Literary Prize? "The Wasted City" (winner)
1989 National Outstanding Prose Award "Trace of Love" (winner)
1987 American Mobil Pegasus Literary Award "Impetuous" (winner) )
1984 The Third National Outstanding Novella Award "The Twelfth and First Moon" (winning)
1978 The National Outstanding Short Story Award "Full Moon" (winning)
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Character evaluation:
Jia Pingwa is one of the few literary wizards in my country's contemporary literary world and is known as a "ghost genius". He is one of the most rebellious, creative and widely influential writers in contemporary China. He is also one of the few famous writers in contemporary China who can enter the history of world literature.
Jia Pingwa’s writing is both traditional and modern, both realistic and lofty. His language is simple and honest, but his heart is full of waves.
Jia Pingwa’s novels describe the northwest rural areas in the new era. Especially the changes after the reform and opening up have a broad vision, rich cultural and psychological connotations of contemporary Chinese society, rich regional customs and characteristics, and a fresh, timeless and natural style.
Character introduction:
Hai Ruo, the owner of the temporary teahouse:
She is kind-hearted and sincere. She is divorced and has a son studying abroad. She is the boss and backbone of the sisters; but she originally lived a sober and thorough life, but she always entangled herself in political and business relationships; she used precious tea leaves and exquisite tea sets to carefully manage relationships in an attempt to gain the protection of the powerful. He was later taken away by the Discipline Inspection Commission.
Lu Yike, who runs an advertising company:
He has business channels and is not short of money, but in order to get an LED advertising booth near the airport, he keeps giving gifts to the group I asked someone to take care of the dinner party; but in the end I didn't get the advertising spot I wanted so much, and I was forced to become a mediator in the power struggle.
Empress Ying Li·The rich woman among the sisters:
She has 23 front rooms for rent, and her wealth alone makes people envious; but in order to obtain more wealth, He was willing to use sex to gain a relationship; later he used 10 million yuan in loan sharking to make a profit, but the principal could not be recovered, and the scoundrels who collected the debt demanded a full 300,000 yuan; after spending money to ensure safety, he still could not get rid of these scoundrels.
Xilishui·Open Rehabilitation Hospital:
The rehabilitation hospital opened in Xijing City has a straightforward personality.
Xiang Qiyu·Energy Capsule Pavilion
The business of the energy capsule pavilion opened in the city is not bad. The sisters or some friends recommend customers, and they are also very popular among the sisters. Loyal.
Xia Zihua·Model
She is a beautiful model who is not married and has a very young son with a married wealthy businessman and an old mother with rheumatism. Bees often need to sting her legs to relieve the pain. At first, none of the sisters knew who the father of the child was. Unfortunately, she became terminally ill. The sisters took turns taking care of her, including taking care of her mother and child. It was not until her death that the sisters He knew the child's father, but he was kind and caring. When the sisters were not in the hospital, he took care of Xia Zihua and made arrangements for the child and Xia Zihua's mother. It was also recognized by all the sisters.
Yu Benwen·Hot Pot Restaurant
The hot pot restaurant opened in Xijing City is old and high-end. The 10 sisters gather for dinner once a month, and each one takes turns every month.
Si Yinan? Furniture Store
He has a straightforward personality, carefree, handsome clothes, boyish personality, taekwondo, rock music, and Go.
Xu Qi? Theater actor
After resigning, he went to Xijing to start a business. Because of his poor health, he paid special attention to health care and recommended some health care methods to the sisters. The relationship between Nan and Nan is unusual, equivalent to that of boyfriend and girlfriend.
Feng Ying·City Inspection Group
Free and easy, casual, with a little melancholy in the sunshine, and not much desire for money. In the end, due to the plane crash when he returned to China, he never returned. Didn't come back and heard nothing.
Eva:
A Russian beauty with blond hair and fair skin. She temporarily worked as a clerk at a tea house when she returned to Xijing City. She had an ambiguous relationship with Yi Guang. In the end I left Xijing and returned to St. Petersburg.
Along the way, the old man from Hong Kong finally abandoned her, broke up with her husband after two years of separation, and moved to a dirty urban village. He moved everything he could from home without leaving anything behind, not even a cup. , leaving only empty houses. Later I went to St. Petersburg with Eva.
Yi Guang·Calligrapher
A famous writer in Xijing, his books are sold out every time they are put on the shelves. A piece of calligraphy written by him can sell for 10 Ten thousand yuan is hard to come by. Although he had a wife, his huge wealth made him gradually lost and wandered in love. He collected many glass bottles in his home, which were filled with women's hair. He is rich and passionate, and has the unique temperament of a scholar. Many women cannot escape his "devil's claws".
The waiters in the tea house: Xiao Tang, Xiao Gao, Zhang Ao, Xiao Su, Xiao Zhen, Xiao Fang
They each perform their own duties and do their own things. Xiao Tang is here. Except for Hai Ruo, Xiao Tang is responsible for all major and minor matters in the tea house. Everyone helps each other and warms each other in the tea house, which is warm and harmonious
Content introduction:
1. The work is centered on a teahouse called "Temporarily Sitting" and features more than ten group portraits of urban women who are financially independent but emotionally frustrated. Through their comings and goings in the tea house, various life styles with mixed flavors are deduced.
2. "Sitting" is set in Xi'an. It tells the story of a group of single women helping each other in life and leaning on each other spiritually in the fast pace of modern life. It shows the independent women today. Style. They are mysterious and beautiful, and when they come and go, they are both deeply attractive and unpredictable. On the surface, they have endless scenery, but they secretly hide their own loneliness and sadness; they work hard to defend their spiritual freedom, but because of their own desires, they are firmly bound by the complex network of social relationships!
3. Xijing City is always filled with lingering smog, and the staggering wind makes the leaves rustle. Like the gray sky, people living in this city are irritated, depressed, and have nowhere to escape.
In the tired commercial bustle, there is a tea house where you can relax and escape from the world. This is the most high-end tea house in Xijing City. The best tea products are here, and the most exquisite tea cups are also here. There is an endless stream of visitors who are either rich or noble, or official or literary!
4. What really brings the story to the tea house are more than ten urban women who meet by chance. They have different identities and have their own careers. With resources and experiences from different industries, they gathered in the temporary tea house; it was as if they had rebuilt a new business world in a leisurely environment. They are either single or divorced, without the support of emotions and marriage, but relying on their own abilities, they have become the most typical middle and upper class in the city.
5. The sisters gathered at the temporary tea house. In addition to releasing their worries through talking and laughing, and finding a spiritual resting place from the cramped reality, they also have a common expectation, that is Are you all concerned about when the Living Buddha will arrive? Hairuo, the owner of the teahouse, learned from Boss Wu, who had never shown up, that the Living Buddha from the Western Regions was about to enter Xijing City. For this reason, she discussed with Boss Wu and hosted the reception for a few days herself. After receiving the reply, Hairuo renovated the second floor of the teahouse. They built a meditation room to entertain living Buddhas. In the days that followed, all the sisters eagerly waited for the arrival of the Living Buddha; so that every time different characters appeared, someone would ask: When will the Living Buddha come? In order to welcome the upcoming living Buddha, the sisters rented several RVs and prepared to go to the airport to meet him. The ironic thing is that until the end of the story, this "living Buddha" was only expected and talked about by everyone, but never showed up. And this eager expectation actually symbolizes the spiritual status quo of modern people who are rich in material, lacking in ideas, emotionally trapped, and anxious physically and mentally. Therefore, whether they are welcoming the living Buddha or kneeling down to worship the Buddha statue, they are all people bound by desire. Women, most want the comfort and forgiveness that comes from faith. But in the end, this belief was completely frustrated and disintegrated amidst the earth-shaking changes in power in Xijing City.
6. The Buddha cannot save everyone, and the Buddha statue is also helpless, because the world is full of storms, and the only way to stay safe is to survive by yourself. But for the sisters, they can't let go of the desires born of greed and hatred, and they can't let go of the social network that comes from greed and hatred. This kind of obsession and stubbornness is destined to be unable to survive alone when the storm comes. . Because I don’t want to let go, but I luckily rely on faith to gain peace of mind, and the wait has become a joke!
7. With the successive dismissals of the municipal party committee secretary and deputy mayor, a strong whirlpool has arisen in the political and business relationship structure in Xijing City; and the temporary tea house in the prosperous area has also been affected by this regime change. The wind and rain surging inside had a sense of crisis that was almost like black clouds over the city. First, the clerk Xiao Tang was taken away because he helped Boss Qi exchange gold for the Municipal Party Committee Secretary; then the boss Hai Ruo was taken away because not only was he deeply involved with Boss Qi, but even the temporary teahouse was from the Municipal Secretary. I got it at a cheap price through connections. This temporary teahouse, regarded by the sisters as a kingdom of spiritual salvation, has long been entangled with the decadent and chaotic right and wrong; it has been bound in the net of greed from the beginning, seemingly quiet in a prosperous area. Existence, in fact, is never alone.
8. Temporary sitting that loses its therapeutic significance will only lead to death. So, with a huge explosion, the temporary teahouse was reduced to ruins. The cause of the teahouse explosion was that Xin Qi's husband went to the teahouse to vandalize the shop. The clerk and the people who vandalized the shop got into a fight, and Mrs. Zhang forgot to turn off the gas for making tea... The temporary sitting caused by the tea, In the end, it was destroyed by tea; who can deny the cause and effect cycle in this!
9. Sitting in the teahouse for a while, after completing the inevitable demise in the form of ruins and separation, it also represents the disastrous defeat in the confrontation between reality and surreality, indicating that people who are entangled and swallowed by desire are also doomed. There is no way to have a peaceful spiritual resting place. Losing Hai Ruo's coordination and the tea house's dependence; the rope of desire that entangled the sisters also twisted this sisterly relationship into an inextricable knot! Unable to refuse the request of Dean Wang, the "God of Wealth", Yan Nianchu tried his best to persuade Ying Li to lend money to Dean Wang's friends. Then, under selfish control, he escaped from this interest dispute in which the principal could not be recovered, so that the two sisters A good relationship becomes in vain and alienated.
Xiang Qiyu discovered that Si Yinan and Xu Qi had an ambiguous same-sex relationship, so he couldn't help but share it with the sisters. Finally, he was discovered by Si Yinan, who had a strong personality, and the two had a verbal conflict, and their relationship turned from close to weak. Therefore, after the explosion in the teahouse, the friendship between the sisters is no longer what it was before. First they all arrived at the tea house almost at the same time, and then a group of three or four came today, and a group of five or six came tomorrow. When they came, the clothes were no longer competing for beauty..." They came and went, and slowly they dispersed! After a short period of liveliness, each of them disappeared in the crowd with their own sad fate. The joyful past seemed like a dream lost by fate.
Readers share:
1. No matter what. Don't lose yourself at all times, don't lose your true nature in the pursuit of fame and fortune, and don't lose your true nature for the sake of short-term interests. We should always be kind to people, things, and things no matter what the circumstances. Be kind and sincere.
2. Life is inherently unpredictable, and human nature is unpredictable! If we are greedy for this moment of comfort, we may be self-defeating and get ourselves into trouble for no reason. Even if we sit for a while, it is all up to us how we treat people and things that come and go, and whether we can live a steady and peaceful life is all up to our own choice.
3. No. Never touch something that belongs to you. Sooner or later, you will return it twice as much. Every penny you make is the realization of your understanding of the world. Every penny you lose is a reflection of your understanding of the world. It’s because of a flawed understanding of the world, because you can never make money beyond the scope of your knowledge, unless we rely on luck, but the money earned by luck will often be lost by strength in the end. Until your cognition matches your wealth
4. We all like money, but money is not everything. There are always some things that money cannot solve. When your ability cannot control the wealth, At this time, we should not think about getting rich overnight, as long as we have enough money, don’t be anxious, don’t be anxious, because you don’t know how many people are envious of you now, clean circle, regular life, simple love, satisfaction A good person, a healthy body, kind parents, not in a hurry