The literary masterpiece "Chen Jiangong·The Floating Flower Headband" Original text|Theme|Appreciation|Summary
About the author Chen Jiangong, originally from Guangxi, was born in 1949. After graduating from high school in 1968, he was assigned to work as an underground mining worker in the Muchengjian Coal Mine of the Beijing Mining Bureau. Around 1970, he was punished because of his background and his love of reading. In 1973, he published his debut work, the poem "Farewell", which went against his true feelings and forced a smile. At the end of 1977, he was admitted to the Chinese Department of Peking University to study literature. When literature in the new era entered the reflection stage, his creative thoughts began to undergo major changes. In 1979, he published the novel "Tears of Hemerocallis" in the second issue of "Flower City" and began to write from his own heart. Later, he published a series of novels such as "Flowing Water Bends", "There Was a Saodarzi in the West of Beijing", "Coffin Cover", "Phoenix Eyes", "Confused Starry Sky", etc. In 1980, he joined the Beijing Branch of the Chinese Writers Association and was elected as a director. In 1981, he published "The Fading Flower Turban", which won the National Outstanding Short Story Award that year. He joined the Chinese Writers Association in 1982, graduated from university in the same year, and was assigned to engage in professional creation at the Beijing Federation of Literary and Art Circles. Published novel collections "Charming Starry Sky" (1981), "Selected Novels of Chen Jiangong" (1985), "Curly Hair" (1986), "Phoenix Eyes" (1986), etc.
Summary of content Qin Jiang was once a young man in a small circle of upper class society. He followed his father through the ups and downs during the ten years of turmoil. After the "Cultural Revolution", he and his friends spent all day hanging out at "Moscow Restaurant" and "Kangle" in Beijing, eating, drinking, having fun, and showing off their power. He was called "Old O" (Oblomov) by his father, and he called his father "Old Bu" (Bolshevik). In boredom, he never found his place in life. As the times progressed, he suddenly Feeling the panic of being eliminated from life. Unable to extricate himself from the depression, he finally made up his mind to leave Beijing and work as a crew member in Chongqing, hoping to change his life. But soon, he felt tired again: the sound of the machine was grinding on his nerves, and the repeated trips back and forth were suffocating. He felt that he would probably go back to the contented but empty, rich but boring life of the past. At this time, he met a girl - Shen Ping on the "Red Star Ship". In the heavy fog, she leaned against the railing of the ship's side, reading quietly, concentrating on her book, as if she was in a deserted place. Her tall and fit body, delicate features, and simple attire, very attractive to Qin Jiang. This girl has an enviable arrogance and superhuman mental superiority, which makes Qin Jiang feel ashamed. At noon, Qin Jiang saw her tying a sky-blue nylon turban to the main pillar of the ship's side. Jiang Feng shook the turban open, revealing two fiery red phoenixes flying on it. She grabbed the fluttering corner of her scarf, leaned over the railing, and stared into the distance where the smoke was not gone, with tears in her eyes. Qin Jiang asked her who she was "contacting", and she replied that her mother taught in the elementary school by the river. She tied the flower scarf there to let her mother see her and know that she was on the boat. Qin Jiang learned from the conversation with Shen Ping that Shen Ping's mother was a "rightist" and her father had dumped them both. She was never recommended to go to college. But she just refused to recognize the bear and refused to accept her fate. Finally, with a junior high school diploma, she ranked first in the region and was admitted to the Chinese Department of Beijing S University. The rolled flower headscarf tied to the side of the ship roared like a victory flag, giving Qin Jiang a huge shock. From this day on, he declared war on himself, and he was determined to be admitted to the Chinese Department of S University to meet her! Gradually, talent, perseverance, and ***, these things that had long been unfamiliar came back to him, and everything Becoming fascinated by him again. A desire did arise in his heart, and he looked forward to one day standing proudly in front of the girl who threw the first rope to him who was stuck in the quagmire of life, and told her in her surprised eyes: " All because of meeting you! ..." After hard work, Qin Jiang was finally admitted to the Chinese Department of S University. At a National Day party, he met Shen Ping, who couldn't help but blushed because she touched a note that said "graceful, personable, young and promising, future lover". A few days later, he went to find her. This girl, who was born and raised in a border town in Sichuan, was in tears because some of her classmates did not call her on their autumn outing. She said that they looked down on her and thought she was "unfashionable" because she was not from a well-known family. After that, I had no academic connections; I had neither heard of mazurkas nor polkas; nor did I know Delacroix. She was aggrieved that she might return to a rural middle school to be a "teacher" in the future. What she dreams of is just to impress others. She memorized the "Dictionary of Personal Names", and her desk was filled with books such as "Chopin" and "Beethoven". She learned to use the most fashionable modalities to intercept other people's conversations. At the same time, she tried every means to meet celebrities in order to squeeze into " upper class". Qin Jiang was deeply disappointed with this. He thought: "Did she struggle for a long time just to get into that small circle? Did I struggle for a long time just to go back to that small circle? There, it would cost a person all his passion and perseverance. And talent and quagmire, it took me a lot of effort to get out of there!" Qin Jiang decided to have a serious talk with Shen Ping, but she thought that this "little person" was just to make her an "old friend" Referring to celebrities, she was sorry because she was on her way to a date.
That night coincided with the Chinese men's volleyball team defeating the South Korean team in the World Cup preliminaries. The campus was filled with joy. Qin Jiang shed tears in the parade to celebrate. He suddenly discovered that so many students who had only resisted injustice in the past had now found a new fulcrum of struggle in the torrent of revitalizing China. However, Shen Ping would only stand up to a blank look and a cold reception, and she was struggling to get rid of the past completely. Qin Jiang wrote her a long letter overnight, asking her if she felt in danger of being swept away by the turbulent currents of life, and expressed the love he had sprouted since the "Red Star" meeting. But Shen Ping already has a boyfriend, a student at Tsinghua University and the son of a scholar. She thinks Qin Jiang's persuasion is out of jealousy, prudishness, and pretentious sentimentality. During a chat with an old friend, Qin Jiang accidentally learned that Shen Ping's boyfriend turned out to be a gangster who played with Shen Ping. Sadly she doesn't know this yet. She was feeling proud and was about to hang up her flowered turban again, but she didn't expect that the ship was rushing towards the reef. Qin Jiang decided to tell Shen Ping everything he knew, but when they met, his tongue was tangled up. Qin Jiang found out her boyfriend's address and wanted to ask him face to face. If that was the case, he would teach him a lesson. He was not at home, and Qin Jiang learned from his mother that he would fly to America the day after tomorrow. Out of intuition, Qin Jiang realized that Shen Ping's tragedy was not far away. When Shen Ping and her boyfriend returned hand in hand, she would never have thought of what was waiting in front of her. She didn't even know that he would leave the day after tomorrow. Qin Jiang could only follow them into the dark building door with his eyes. A few raindrops fell, and Qin Jiang wandered on the road in front of the building. He saw the light in the window where they were sitting went out, so he ran upstairs desperately, but stopped rationally in the middle and retreated. Come downstairs. Silently facing the window, Qin Jiang couldn't help but feel sad for Shen Ping, her mother, and himself. He didn't know if Shen Ping could return to "Among Us" again. Almost at the same time, Qin Jiang's novel "Tracker" won the Outstanding Novel Award and became an eye-catching young writer. But he did not attend the award ceremony, nor did he suddenly appear in front of his father wearing the school badge and holding the award certificate, feeling proud. His father, Comrade Ma Zhengyuan, the leader of the literary and artistic circles who attended the meeting, did not know that this promising young man whom he highly valued and praised highly was his unscrupulous son Ma Ming. The tragedy of Shen Ping's life journey prompted Qin Jiang to wake up and think. There is still a long way to go in life, and he is determined to go his own way.
Appreciation of Works The novel "The Passing Flower Headband" describes the different life paths of two contemporary young people and their different understandings and pursuits of career, love, and life. Shen Ping—a girl born and raised in a small riverside town in Sichuan, worked hard to get admitted to the Chinese Department of Beijing S University because she refused to accept her fate or recognize bears. In the new environment, since I am neither a descendant of a famous family nor have connections in academia, I will most likely return to the countryside to work as a teacher and despise myself. In order to be fashionable, she memorized a "Dictionary of Personal Names", read biographies of artists, met with scholars and celebrities, and even gambled her youth to make boyfriends from "despite a famous family", and eventually fell into a trap. Her vanity encouraged her to "break into life" and take pride in getting into the small circle of "upper class society". Another young man, Qin Jiang, was originally a son of a high-ranking cadre who grew up in the upper class of Beijing. During the ten years of turmoil, he followed his father's ups and downs. He was either proud or frustrated, and he never found his place in life. Finally one day, he felt the panic of being eliminated from life, so he wanted to change his way of life. In 1976, he went to Chongqing to work as a crew member. During a voyage he met Shen Ping. Shen Ping's fighting spirit of not succumbing to fate shocked him, and her sharp words tempted him - "Man, why are you so bearish?" This enthusiastic and conceited girl aroused Qin Jiang's jealousy and curiosity, and also prompted Qin Jiang to He goes to think about life. But when Qin Jiang was admitted to S University, he found that Shen Ping was very different from the Shen Ping he imagined. The flower headscarf that once flew like a victory flag had flown away. There are not many characters described in this novel, but the creation of characters is quite meaningful. The author does not simply make positive and negative comparisons or analogies, but displays the characters' fate in the shaping of their personality. The author adopts a flashback and dialogue style to write about the fate of the two young people, layer by layer, with ups and downs, thus reflecting the ups and downs and ups and downs of life. The life status of these two young people is always in an inexplicable dislocation, forming a tonal contrast. At first, Qin Jiang was a "queen from a famous family" in the upper class, vain and superficial; Shen Ping was an ordinary "little person" in the lower class countryside. In the end, Qin Jiang became a "little man" who worked hard to revitalize the nation, while Shen Ping was doing everything possible to squeeze into the upper class society, dreaming of becoming a "daughter-in-law of a famous family" and the wife of someone studying abroad. Life is like a magician: When Qin Jiang was stuck in the quagmire and could not extricate himself, it was Shen Ping who inadvertently threw the first rope to him and became his motivator to strive for progress; but later, Shen Ping herself was The turbulent current of life was threatening to disappear, and Qin Jiang was anxious and heartbroken about it. He tried his best to warn and dissuade her, and sounded the alarm for her. The life circle that Qin Jiang finally broke out of has become the target that Shen Ping insists on pursuing. Here, positive encouragement and negative warning come full circle, and the soul-saver has once upon a time become the object of salvation by the savior. What the author shows is not a simple social picture, it provides us with a more profound and complex connotation of life: how young people can grasp themselves and seek value in the ups and downs of life.
In the era of reform and opening up, the contradiction between material life and spiritual life is more prominent than ever. In the world of social fame and fortune, many people are confused about how to grasp the true meaning of life and what kind of pursuit is legitimate and reasonable. In this novel, the author creates two different types of youth for us, trying to answer this life issue. The intention of exploring the theme is very obvious: the expansion of vanity can make people fall into ignorance and fall into self-interest. Deplorable ruin. And young people who have awakened from the old life, when they realize the responsibilities given by history, will resolutely abandon their comfortable material living conditions and pursue a truly fulfilling life. The main theme of the work is relatively solemn, which is related to the author using Qin Jiang to express his concerns about some young people today giving up their ideals and pursuing vanity. Therefore, the character Qin Jiang seems somewhat idealistic, and his personality changes lack a solid basis. At the same time, the author overemphasizes the role of subjective spirit, which inevitably makes the work fall into the mode of "problem novel". In comparison, Shen Ping's changes appear more real. In writing, the author is good at using symbols, contrasts and other techniques, and certain detailed descriptions leave a deep impression on people. For example, the floral scarf originally fluttered beside the side of the Yangtze River ship, then appeared in Qin Jiang’s beautiful memories, and was later covered on the quilt of Shen Ping’s bed at S University. It has obvious symbolic meaning. Another example is when Shen Ping rushed to go on a date with a certain young man, and it was when Qin Jiang participated in the campus parade, both of which appropriately demonstrated the different yearnings, pursuits and spiritual outlooks of contemporary youth.