I have liked Li Ao since middle school. He is bold and sharp, profound and straightforward, full of fighting temperament, quite a bit of contemporary Lu Xun's style.
Maybe there are no such excellent people in our context. His voice on the other side always has the power to tear the sky, and there is no lack of kindness in his sharpness.
At that time, I liked to buy his books, his essays and his research on life in China. I saw the university from middle school and brought it to Beijing from my hometown in Fujian. This book has been a guest on my bookshelf for dozens of times, although Li Ao is not as representative as this book.
The articles in the book can be described as sharp and unruly. Just reading the title of a book is exciting. This book is very special. Described the essence of gender extracted by Li Ao from many books. For example, he studied the sexual intercourse words in the Book of Changes, the sexual intercourse posture in the Warring States Policy and the sexual intercourse words in the Buddhist scriptures, which had a great influence on my initial sexual consciousness and made me stop treating sex as a humiliating thing.
I remember that there is an article in the book "And And And And And And And", which studies the ancestor's reproductive worship from the change of characters. Not only the pictographic meaning of "harmony" in "ancestor" is clarified, but also the ancestral tablet is synonymous with "harmony". I am not qualified to judge right or wrong after textual research, but the interest of the article is really Wen Qing's love for men. I don't think I can read dozens of this article, but I can always read my little interest in Confucianism.
The other sentence "Yeye" is also very impressive. The content is about female genitalia, so I can't remember it clearly. But at the end of the article, it belittled the ignorance of the new generation of Kuomintang and translated the nationals of Arab countries into "Yemen", which I probably remember. After graduating from college, I seldom read Li Ao's articles, but my affection for him continued. Maybe he is closer to the mainland, maybe he has the totem of our freedom of speech. Later, I watched him as a guest entertainment program "Kangxi is coming", and I liked it more and more.
Last year, my book editor gave me a copy of his Famen Temple, which is a historical novel about political reform in the late Qing Dynasty. The editor wants me to help you push it and see if there is any possibility of film and television transformation. I have read that book, which is quite good, but I am too stupid to decide how to adapt it.
I heard today that Li Ao died of illness. I know that he has been ill for many years. However, his optimism always makes me feel that he is healthy and will never get sick, let alone die. But when the news was overwhelming, my first reaction was to be calm. Although this interesting guy left after all, I think it is enough for him to come here smartly, and he will leave smartly then.
Smile!