Chapter 12 Chapter 5.1

The intuition of women is amazing to me. In all forms of quiz or guessing activities, their results are far better than men.Often, the men just start thinking, but they have already blurted out the answer.And, half the time it's true. Men become wise through knowledge.Women are extraordinarily intelligent by instinct... Girls taste love indirectly from love novels.Their fantasies of romantic love are followed by fantasies of a good marriage.But what half-aged women and half-aged men fantasize in their hearts is directly extramarital affairs.Because they and they are mostly married.Especially them, just like Francesca, the heroine of "Bridges of Madison County", is a wife.In their hearts, such women either no longer fantasize about love, or fantasize about extramarital affairs.

Higher education teaches the ability to think.Thought is the "natural enemy" of fantasy.Just as ladybugs are natural enemies of aphids. Love, lust, and sex, especially in novels and movies, tend more and more vulgar, obscene, ugly, naturalistic (bad naturalism), less and less holy, and even less dignified.It seems that because of the high price of a certain kind of brocade, although I was yearning for it, I didn't dare to buy it at all. I even took a detour when I passed the cloth shop.Not only did they buy clothes to make, they also made trousers to make vests, insoles to make socks, bed sheets to make tablecloths.And after a few days of freshness, Suo Xing made rags and chokers.Almost all novels have love, lust, and sex, but they lack the thoughts about love, the treatment of lust, and the beauty of sex.

The theme of love is not necessarily only or only allowed to bloom beautiful flowers. In reality, it can often breed extreme ugliness and extreme evil. In contemporary Chinese novels, sex is almost only the shell of Gong Neng.There is almost no soul in this shell. I'm quite confused by the words "crunchy warmth".After repeated chewing and thinking, the confusion still exists without any reduction.From my point of view, tenderness is a very important "element" of love. Love without tenderness is simply impossible.Just as air without oxygen is not air at all. He is a very rational and cautious writer who tries not to make readers feel stubborn, and tries not to make himself and his works rejected by readers because of bigotry and cause readers to rebel.

After reading many novels about love, I have become less easily moved by love stories. The story of "The Bridge of Madison County" itself didn't move me too much.It reminds me of our Chinese "The Legend of the White Snake" and "The Legend of the White Snake".The latter is really not as beautiful as "Kao Qiao Yu Meng" in terms of the romance of publicizing love and the persistence of chanting love.When it comes to "greatness", no matter the greatness of the imaginative charm of the story itself or the greatness of love (called "passion" in Waller's words) possessed by the heroes and heroines, they all far surpass the "Great Bridges". Dream".It is simply not the same.The romantic imagination of the souls of men and women in love turning into colorful butterflies has fascinated me since I was a child.As for the female image of the white lady in "The Legend of the White Snake", I think that in the history of human art creation, there is no one who has come before.What a terrible thing a snake is!Snakes are spirits, which always imply evil and cruelty.In Greek and Roman mythology, the basilisk appeared repeatedly with the poisonous god.Only in our Chinese "The Legend of the White Snake" can it become the embodiment of love, beauty, kindness, courage, tenderness, loyalty, and death.The kind of white lady who betrays me to Aining people, I will never betray anyone, the kind of love that does not go through fire and water, does not use the body of a thousand years of cultivation to die, the kind of ignorance that loves without regret even though it is suppressed under the tower, it is true. The swan song of love in heaven and earth!It really makes generations of men feel ashamed forever!It's just that "Legend of the White Snake" is worth mentioning, because of its myth and legend, it has diluted the contemporaneity and can no longer move us contemporary people.

Yes, the love stories that move the contemporary people the most must be the love stories that happened in the present age. Contemporary people will neither shed tears nor worry about the ancients when watching "Three Kingdoms". Contemporary people will no longer be emotionally moved with snot and tears when watching "Qin Xianglian". But even a very mediocre contemporary love story will appeal to at least some of the contemporary population. I have no doubt at all that the movie "The Bridge of Madison County" that will be made or has already been made, once it is released in China, will make our audience more troublesome.And once a translated novel is printed with the words "America's best seller", it would be a strange thing if it doesn't sell well in China.This phenomenon of literary communication between countries is really intriguing.Extramarital affairs are the most frequent fantasy games of all middle-class middle-aged women.This is almost hereditary privilege of consciousness.This privilege absolutely does not belong to middle-aged women who are at the bottom of social material life.

I sometimes hate a woman with obvious middle-class features more than catkins.In the spring, before the willows have sprouted new green leaves, it is very unpleasant to see the catkins fluttering and falling on people's bodies and hair.Especially the screen windows that are full of people's homes. If the screen windows are not cleaned thoroughly, the ventilation will not be smooth, and they will not be able to function as screen windows.The obvious characteristics of the middle class, coupled with the obvious "Chinese characteristics", if you have a little sociological common sense, then just imagine how sour Zhao will make women?

Chinese middle-class women have a very strong and sensitive sense of the "emerging" class in their minds.Precisely because they are women of the "emerging" class, they must deliberately show this at all times.That's what makes them somewhat repulsive. "Bridges of Madison County" is an American contemporary love story, which seems to have such a simple earthy atmosphere, like a carrot just pulled out of the ground. But to Francesca's Chinese sisters, it looks like a painting in a gold frame.That invisible golden frame is contemporary America itself.How much they wanted to jump into the picture frame and be Francesca for a while, to satisfy the addiction of extramarital affairs!But for them, it is even more difficult than obtaining a green card in the United States...

Under this kind of reading psychology, their feelings of being moved are actually greatly reduced. "The Bridge of Madison County" is the purest romance novel I have ever read.It is also the simplest and most superficial love story I have ever read.Its best-selling in the United States is obviously related to it being the purest, simplest and most superficial love novel.A bestseller in China is also apparently. The purest, simplest and most superficial things often put the comprehensive, complex and profound things in an embarrassing situation.The times are moving towards making everything purely simple and superficial.Just as computers are developed to become more and more sophisticated and complex, it is to make our minds more and more crude and simple.

In the love novels I have read, the love stories I have heard, the love stories I have watched, and the love movies I have watched, nine out of ten are based on love as the bond and solid foundation of love with lasting resilience. Anything, however inseparable it may be from our lives, however crucial it may be in the meaning of our lives, and however wonderfully enjoyable it may be to our human needs, when it is exaggerated to the point of So supremely, its very nature is distorted.Its exaggerated "broken thinking" also appears childish and ridiculous at the same time. In a literary cliché, sometimes repetition is itself meaning.Sometimes another "wrapper" is the value.This is an inescapable stoppage in literature.

Constance had rebelled against the class to which she belonged, and all its moral hypocrisy. Francesca converted to the contemporary people's traditional concept of "family", making herself a contemporary "model" of a "good woman".This kind of Yiyi is also extremely challenging.In a time when homes seem to be destroyed at will, Francesca seems to be a woman in her own right. Constance's brave choice in her era has positive significance for female individuals.Francesca's choice followed the cues of society.The former will be admired by women, the latter by society.The former conquers women, the latter conquers men.

There is no lack of depth, but nothing touching. In "The Bridge of Madison County", there is nothing profound, but there are many touching things. When the contradiction between family and love is becoming more and more obvious, and in the contemporary era when Westerners are trying to find a possible solution from the contradiction, the contradiction between family and love faced by the Chinese will be like the energy pollution on the earth in the next century. All-time serious.And it is definitely not something that can be relieved by prescriptions like "The Bridge of Madison County"... "Corruption" is more than just a political word in China. It has started to spread to every level of our society, every aspect of our life. Today is spiritual. Tomorrow is sex and love. "The Bridge of Madison County" is a beautiful kite floated from the United States before the Chinese people's norms of sex and love collapsed. We are actually standing on the edge of the impending collapse, looking at the kite, praying for corrupt logic and "truth" in our minds, looking forward to gaining "new life" in the fall... Although I feel that I am descending from a high altitude to a "canker" of the earth, I still hope to land on that "ulcer" immediately.Humans are not birds, they have no wings, and after traveling in the air for a long time, their hearts are always not so at ease.Even if it is a desert, I would like to land first, to rest assured.What's more, I know that what will really welcome me will be the prosperity and civilization of a metropolis created by some human beings... Some Japanese care more about the relationship between Japan and China after the "reform and opening up" than ordinary Chinese.Some Japanese know very well that it is still very difficult for Japan to gain a good impression in the international relations of the Western world and establish a good national image.If Japan wants to gain goodwill in international relations in Asia, it must first gain goodwill from China.And this must start with the Japanese being able to gain the favor of the Chinese.Without this, Japan cannot establish a good national image in Asia.Then it means that it cannot establish this image in the world. There have been many resistant women in Chinese history.Their resistance is sometimes tenacious to the point of death.In the historical era when men were forced to bind their feet, many women lost their lives just to resist this force. From Chinese literature and dramas, it is not difficult to see images of Chinese women who resist, challenge, and launch fierce attacks on the "patriarchal center" one after another. Japanese decadence.Its characteristic is not stimulating, but sweet and greasy. Japanese men must have women like Japanese women. Japanese women must have men like Japanese men. Japan must have men like Japanese men and women like Japanese women. This is the DNA of a nation. Sexual freedom and liberation make love the most precious element in real "love"; let them and they seem to have a "soft spot" for "love", especially "pure love" up. If you yearn for depravity in your heart, Japan can make you degenerate and tempt you to degenerate too many aspects; if you desire self-improvement and success, as long as you pay more than the people around you, Japan will also provide you with corresponding opportunities. Matter is relatively abundant, society is strictly ordered, social contradictions are eliminated on a large scale, sex is also made open and liberalized to the greatest extent, most of the meanings that constitute "personality" change arbitrarily, and people's spiritual impulses as a whole weakened... Between Japan's crimes of aggression and the suffering of the atomic bomb later, some Japanese people have fallen into embarrassing silence for more than half a century.They are hesitant to talk about the former.For the latter, they can only talk about it.Their cruising is one of the most paradoxical embarrassments of mankind.Their silence is one of the most unwilling silences of human beings... I thought they were understandable. As a Chinese, I can understand them and would like to understand them. The relationship between Japan and the United States is very similar to the most common relationship in Jin Yong's martial arts novels - swordsman or swordsman, who cut off his troubled character, but at the same time played the role of "guardian" of the other party's son, similar to "foster father" "Guardian" role. The Japanese's psychology towards the United States must be very contradictory.But the contradiction is not complicated, it is only the contradictory side.On the one hand, they regard the United States as their "foster father".Because they are still under the military protection and sclerotinia protection of the United States, they have to rely on three points; on the other hand, how can they be willing to stay in the status of "adopted sons" forever?Why is it unwilling to get rid of the "guardianship" of the United States?Why don't you want to be like the Yankees, who are addicted to bossing around on the world stage and sanctioning this "international rivers and lakes" overlord who sanctions this and that?On the one hand, he is grateful for the decades-long "guardianship" of the United States; on the other hand, he is brooding over the natural disasters he has suffered. Comparing a country to a person, that kind of revenge for killing one's father is like revenge for adultery of one's mother!Does Japan have an attempt to retaliate against the United States?Yes and no.There is also its own.It can't be realized at all.At least it is impossible to put it into practice in the military.Has Japan really retaliated against the United States?When Japanese cars hit the US market and the yen appreciates and the dollar depreciates, the pleasure in the Japanese hearts can be imagined. I am a humble novelist, and I have always looked at society and the times from a professional literary perspective. I am a Chinese and a writer. I am living in this era. Looking at it and thinking about it, I really want to leave a little record within my ability, so as to provide even a few percent reference for future generations to study this era. Gradually I got used to looking at the world with the novelist's literary eyes with one eye, and looking for some sociological and psychological feelings with the other eye.I think many things in the world, viewed in this way, have a wider field of vision, a deeper vision, and seem to be more transparent than those viewed with a pure novelist's literary eyes. Writers pay attention to the society and the times. There is really no need to understand that it is so harmful to be required, imposed, and become subjectively active. Is it so bad?Chinese writers, especially in terms of ideology, have been suppressed for too long, so their ideological initiative has gradually shrunk and been lost.I advocate restoring this ability myself.I'm not very proud of these "stuff" myself. Bias is blind relative to fairness.But fairness does not mean moderation.My biases are sometimes almost a deliberate reaction to moderation. But we should not blindly react to the mean.Being biased so far from being fair is just as contemptible as smooth moderation. A decent material life, independent consciousness of free expression. All the so-called "rich people" in China today were ordinary people more than ten years ago.Opportunity and shrewdness are the conditions for their success.Their success in my book repeats such a common truth-opportunities belong to those who are prepared.No one who reads my book will see an attack on him in it.It's just that words are not so worshipped.He had to allow me not to adore him. However, in him, he saw disapproval. (Even if you disagree, you have to allow it?) I welcome all people to criticize my words, deeds, creation and mind.It is flattery that someone pays special attention to your mind.As long as there is a little bit of truth in the criticism, I will take it for granted and take it as a warning.Even if it is unreasonable, as long as it does not affect the right and wrong of my own creation and character, I generally don't care.But if the misleading spreads widely and the fallacy spreads, I have no choice but to clarify and refute it. Since people live in society, everyone is a social person.It is impossible for a social person not to consider his own interests.It includes—guaranteeing a relatively decent material life income, full freedom to choose a profession that can give full play to one’s expertise or intelligence, passion and impulse to participate in fair competition, and a social environment that facilitates the realization of self-worth... I, Liang Xiaosheng, a contemporary Chinese writer, hereby solemnly declare that I want to stand on the opposite side of "privileges" and oppose the phenomenon of "privileges" with a clear-cut, firm, unwavering, and unhesitating stand!There is nothing a person can do about his own "fate".Others can't do anything about this person's "fate". The manual workers I have seen can be roughly divided into two categories.A class of self-abased and self-improvement, complaining and cursing words often hang on their lips: "We, stinky coolies!" A class of blind self-esteem, advocating strength, for those who do not rely on strength for food, they can sum it up in one word: "Eat light rice!" implies a kind of contempt. People's memories can change the "focal length" with age, just like photos change color over time. Father is no longer the strong and strong father he used to be, and he is no longer the father who still has bright eyes and hale and hearty eyes when he retires.Father is old, he is completely old.Life had turned him completely into an old man.His stiff black hair had almost fallen out, and what remained was white.But his beard is quite high-grade, silver-gray and yellow, the so-called "Old Huang Zhong style", flowing and flowing, leaving a second button on his clothes.Only this big beard gave him a bit of old man's dignity.And the weather-beaten wrinkles on his face condensed the afterimage of some kind of failed wish... Life, after all, is very powerful. What has been shaken needs a more solid foundation than it was before, in order to recover its original solidity.Faith is not like a child playing with building blocks, which can be knocked down a hundred times and rebuilt a hundred times.Restoration of faith requires a deeper outlook on thought and understanding than before.This is much longer than the winding time of a painted clock. One can deceive others, but one cannot deceive oneself. Because it is they, the tens of thousands of people who have not enjoyed cultural education in the course of history but who are creating civilization, are like sedimentary rocks, accumulated and solidified layer by layer, and firmly established our nine hundred 600,000 square kilometers of land!Dad never did anything he couldn't do.All his life he didn't like the kind of people who made up their numbers. Nowadays, there are not too many Chinese people who are serious about doing things and being a serious person.Today's Chinese seem to have no sense of responsibility for everything.Even those who are officials are not willing to be serious about being an official. Some things, for me, gradually began to be less serious.It seems that seriousness is first of all a disadvantage to oneself. An almost life-long trade necessarily molds a man's distinct character traits. What they participated in was nothing more than brick by brick, but they were willing to contribute to the success of others through their brick by brick. They are serious because it is their pleasure! May we be serious about other people's affairs in our lives, and be able to draw out our own character of tax evasion spontaneously from it, and let it flourish! As far as performing arts are concerned, I adore character actors.As far as real people are concerned, on the contrary, I admire every "true character" person, and I am very wary of "character actors"... I respect my mother and all the women who embrace the difficult life with perseverance and never give up because of suffering... We depend on our mother to live.Like a garlic sprout depends on a garlic.When we got to the point of being valued by others, Mother was already absorbed by us.Without wealth and knowledge.Mother is a mother who has nothing. Think of all the mothers on our 9.6 million square kilometers who have raised their children tenaciously in poverty and are still in poverty.They have nothing.They are ordinary, ordinary and unknown.Perhaps the greatest quality of all is perseverance.They have nothing to rely on but their own stoicism.However, they may be the most worthy mothers of their children!Because what they give is themselves.It makes me sad to think about that almost instinctive devotion.And there are many good men after their lives, this is the most lasting beauty of human beings!If we are rich, even if we live in a rotting coffin, there will be people who are happy to visit, whether it is a festival or an ordinary day. If others are satisfied with you, you will not suffer. A beggar is pitiful, but not shameful.When you have nowhere to go, it's okay to be humble. If someone asks me what is my greatest wish?I will answer without hesitation: Take my old mother and old father to my side, and let me do a little filial piety for them.However, I know that this wish is almost tantamount to a fantasy and a bubble.When my old mother and father were alive; that's about it. My Harbin is my mother city. As a writer, I have not and cannot make any practical contributions to you! This guilt is a lifelong guilt. Liang Xiaosheng is not a person who does not repay favors! For those who read my novel "Ulcer" and wrote to me sincerely, I would like to sincerely give up one and a half rooms of their houses to my old mother and old father for a while, I also cherish you forever Deeply grateful.The important significance of such things is that it shows that there is goodness in our lives after all. Mother, you must live well!You have to wait!You must wait! Please, mother! From my old mother, I think of the thousands of mothers of almost a generation, those women who are unseen and even mediocre, who are breathing their old lives at the bottom of the society, should be the same for their sons. Noble mothers?My thinking is quite materialistic.But being influenced by emotions, it is inevitable that they will become a little idealistic.