A small town with only two streets, the same life, little reunion's daughter-in-law died, Feng's crooked woman died, and then she was lonely. The living people continue to live in a daze, jumping, catching up with temple fairs, putting on river lanterns and listening to the wild prince play. Every year, the pit in the street is still there, and there are mules and horses trapped in it, but no one wants to fill it, just like the trap of life. The iron plow by the door rusted and yellow soup flowed in the rain. It is still in its place, indifferent to the erosion of time. Between dawn and dusk, day after day, this is a small town in the northeast as dull as time stagnation.
A little girl lives alone with her grandfather. In the garden, she watched bees, butterflies and dragonflies, watched leeks grow, and watched wormwood barren. After the autumn rain, the garden was closed, and the little girl searched for the old things forgotten by time in the back room where the waste was put, and always found something surprising. Grandpa taught her to read poetry, baked corn and cooked ducks for her, and she looked at the lonely world with a child's eyes. This is Xiao Hong's childhood.
Xiao Hong, who was born in Hulan River, had a lonely childhood. She tells the deep loneliness over and over again in the Biography of Hulan River, just like the frozen land thousands of miles away, making an ice-breaking sound. Xiao Hong's profound description of human nature is no less than Lu Xun's appreciation of her. Some people call it "national character" in his works, but I prefer to call it "human nature", which is the * * * character produced by people in a specific cultural and social environment. Xiao Hong is different from Lu Xun in sharpness and irony. She touched it with women's sensibility, and her description slipped gently like tears. Xiao Hong is not a criticism, but a sadness, a desolation of love and hate. Life in a small town, people in a small town, and everything in the biography of Hulan River are full of sadness that cannot be let go. The untimely death of little reunion's abused daughter-in-law is sad, as is the calculation and struggle of little reunion's mother-in-law. There are two uncles who are eccentric and have been laughed at all their lives. His ridiculous and despicable words and deeds are also heartbreaking. After her grandfather's death, Xiao Hong left the city and her unchanging life, betraying those who had hoped that she would continue to live according to this trajectory, and went to the unknown vast world. After experiencing the ups and downs of the new world and the lingering love and hate, when Xiao Hong revisited her childhood in Hong Kong, far away from the Wan Li of Hulan River, her loneliness and sadness never subsided, but became stronger and stronger.
The change in the world is that after lunch in summer, the flaming clouds in the sky are lit up, the white clouds are pale and the dogs are impermanent. Fortunately for Xiao Hong, she jumped out of the city and was able to paint the muddled scenery with her own strokes, thus giving her the meaning of life. Xiao Hongzhi's misfortune also lies in her resistance to fate, and she cannot escape after all. Xiao Hong, 3 1 year-old, left "I was left out in the cold for half my life, ... I died first, unwilling, unwilling", and was buried in the far south, with a lifetime of joys and sorrows, in a place separated from Wan Li's hometown.
This year, Xu Anhua's "Golden Age" is a hot spot in the film circle, which makes Xiao Hong's name rediscovered again and become a hot project on the Internet. Because of this movie, I didn't watch The Biography of Hulan River. On the contrary, after I watched the Biography of Hulan River, there was a publicity about the film Golden Age in the media. I just know that Xu Anhua is doing a biography of Xiao Hong, and inadvertently caught up with the trend.
Mao Dun's preface is the biggest failure of this edition of Hulan River Biography. This preface can be described as evasive and meaningless. Xiao Hong said in Biography of Hulan River that "my yard is desolate", which is touching to read. In Mao Dun's preface, the same words are repeated over and over again, "Hulanhe's life is lonely", "Xiao Hong's childhood is lonely" and "Xiao Hong's mood is lonely when he wrote Hulanhe Biography", which only makes people feel perfunctory. Whether love is true or not depends not on a sentence or two, but on the taste of a work or an article. Whether it is true or not, a discerning person will know at a glance that fake things have to be confused with inexperienced children.
Finally, the illustrations of the book were asked by the university. You can't just put two beautiful illustrations to promote it as a collection of pictures and texts. Throughout Xiu Xiang's novels preserved in ancient times, although the drawings are only sketchy, they dare not be careless at all. The characters, furnishings and scenery all conform to the words. Although the illustrations of Hulan River Biography in my hand have their own characteristics in composition and techniques, the artistic conception, picture and novel content are totally irrelevant.
Dai Wangshu has a poem called Xiao Hong's Tomb, which is transcribed as follows:
Take a six-hour lonely long journey
Put a bunch of camellia on your head.
I waited, and the night was long.
You are lying and listening to Haitao's gossip.