Chapter 40 female writer Zeng Yan

The Chinese society in Thailand is a cultural desert.The refugee settlements of the lonely Hmong in northern Thailand are deep in the desert.However, in this desolate cultural desert, a wonderful flower has emerged. She is the young female writer Ms. Zeng Yan. She grew up silently in a boring environment without any nurturing or stimulation.With her own brushwork, she writes about the current situation of the lonely Miao people, and also writes about the Chinese, Akha, and Kawa people from the 1960s until today. footsteps.But she was so lonely and unknown.This is not her loss, she did not ask the motherland to give her anything, she just worked tirelessly and wrote her feelings.

Taipei's "Happy Family Magazine" published her "The Story of Messler", which did not attract much attention at first.Because what is "Mesla"?No one knows that this name, which is similar to Western pronunciation, makes readers misunderstand that it is the so-called "pale and anemic exotic", thinking that it is just a story that takes place in a fantasy world in heaven and earth, and can only attract men and women of the leisure or wealthy class. .However, "The Story of Maesle" is another style that people in a prosperous society cannot understand. It is also full of exotic flavors, because Maesle is a deserted city in the northern part of Thailand, but it has no wonders. Romantic Western plot.Zeng Yan poured out the joys and sorrows of life there with surging emotions.Her writing style is rough, straightforward, and shouting, but also like a lone army Miaozi, revealing her helplessness.However, her way of expressing is full of fun, like Mr. Li Yu's position in Ci, she uses the technique of line drawing to promote the development of the story.Most writers who write about exoticism fail to do that.

In <Adopted Son?Skinny horse?In "Autumn Night", Ms. Zeng Yan describes the aging Daddy Sun, who lives outside the village of Mesile.When she visited him, she found: "Daddy Sun's adopted son, Sun Guangtai, was carrying a bowl of rice, lying on the floor, kneading the rice into balls with his hands, and stuffing it into a small hole in the floor. Here." It turned out that the child was feeding his mother.Daddy Sun explained tragically: "This is the habit of the Kawa people. When a person dies, they are buried at the foot of their own building, and then the partitions are opened with bamboo, and inserted from the upstairs to the dead. When people eat, they have to put the food into bamboo tubes, so that the dead can eat it too. Today, Artest’s mother died for a hundred days.” Soon, Artest fell to his death on the cliff.Not long after, Daddy Sun's only old horse also died.Ms. Zeng Yan wrote: "Under the deep blue and quiet sky, I saw a black silhouette. A dead old horse, bowing its stiff body that once carried many heavy loads, with countless ribs, quietly Lying quietly on the ground. A lonely, unfamiliar fellow from Sichuan, hunched over his back that once carried a lot of suffering, and now can no longer carry a lot of suffering, standing silently trembling in the wind and dew of the autumn night." This Daddy Sun is a veteran of the aging lonely army in the book, and every word is a sadness.

In "Zati and His Daughter Abu", Ms. Zeng Yan wrote about tragedies that are common in northern Thailand.The protagonist is Abu, a little girl from the Akha tribe. She was sold to others by her poor father who was persecuted by usury at a young age.One day, Ms. Zeng Yan heard a dog barking violently. She wrote: "I had to get out of bed and shoot out with a flashlight... I saw a child of the Akha tribe who was about ten years old, shrinking wetly. Trembling beside the hair pit... The child was black and thin, and on the left cheek that was sallow, there was an incision about two inches long and deep, and it was already inflamed and suppurated... The child raised his hand, covering his face timidly. Looking at her face, she suddenly saw that one of her sleeves was hanging under her elbow, and there were many inflamed cuts on her bare arm." In the article, this Aka girl was finally captured by her master. .But Ms. Zeng Yan told me that the poor girl finally died tragically at the hands of her master.

Not every article is tragic, "War of Humans and Bees" and "Broken Soul" are full of the joy of life in the deserted city.It is very obvious that Ms. Zeng Yan's works are not sad and pitiful, but a lively and beating life with rich flesh and blood.Hearty, she does not hide the pain of her married life.However, some female writers in the motherland who have also encountered the same situation, in order to shape their own image of Joan of Arc, dare not speak out.After reading "The Story of Messler", we can truly understand the lone army, the border area, and the deserted city.

Ms. Zeng Yan used to teach at Maesle Xinghua Middle School, and later she taught at Manxingdie Datong Middle School. In our opinion, this is just a very common job transfer, but in the refugee settlements in northern Thailand, it has become a There was a big news, and he believed that he had taken refuge in the Zhang family.Unexpectedly, she introduced a teacher to Manxingdie to teach, but that teacher was identified as a secret agent of the international anti-drug organization. It is said that Mr. Kun Sha ordered immediate execution, but in the end he still accepted the opinion of the chief of staff, Mr. Zhang Suquan, and let him go. A way out, expelled from Manxingdie.However, Ms. Zeng Yan got into a catastrophe because of this, because she introduced people, and that's enough.Human beings are sometimes really incomprehensible. Once doubts are raised on sensitive matters, doubts become evidence, especially when power figures are determined to misunderstand.The chairman of Datong Middle School, a "teacher" of Mr. Kun Sha's armed group, yelled at and expelled Ms. Zeng Yan from the school.And shortly after the dismissal, the Second Opium War broke out.Ms. Zeng Yan's husband, who taught in the same school as Ms. Zeng Yan, was shot and died on the hillside.The Thai side reported that he was killed by Mr. Kunsha's subordinates, but Mr. Kunsha insisted that he died at the hands of Thailand.When Manxingdie was lifted and Ms. Zeng Yan went to collect the corpse, the corpse had already decomposed and was buried on the hillside.My old wife and I once climbed the hillside to pay our respects, with mixed feelings.

I once hired a guide at a high price that shocked the whole village of Mesle, and traveled to various villages to find Ms. Zeng Yan.We didn't know her, but we just loved her talent. Finally, we found out that she and her two young daughters, who are not very sensible, lived in Bashan, 30 kilometers south of Chiang Rai, at the three-fork intersection, lonely and helpless.She can't go back to Starstack, and she can't go back to Messler.She said sadly: "What sin did I do to end up like this?" I couldn't answer her confusion. A generation of talented women, like Ms. Zhu Shuzhen, were abused and humiliated, and were not appreciated.And now, this wonderful woman is relying on the meager fees for publishing in Taipei to maintain her mother and daughter.

When I decided to go to northern Thailand, she was the ace in my mind. I thought she could at least provide me with some information about her. However, she was almost tight-lipped and didn't dare to say anything more about what happened in Manxingdui. word.This cannot be blamed on her. I have interviewed children who fled to Maesle from under the flames of war in the stars. They are young—ranging from seven or eight to eleven or twelve years old. The "Zhang family" was occasionally mentioned in the conversation. , all immediately closed their mouths, with panic expressions on their faces.I fully understand and therefore worry about her future.