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In 1992, jia Pingwa, who was tired, left Xijing for Yaoxian and wrote "Waste Capital" with extremely complicated grief, which became one of the most controversial novels in contemporary Chinese literature.
"Waste Capital" devotes a great deal of space to "sex". Because of this, it was banned for 16 years. Jia Pingwo, who was at the trough of his life, was even more criticized like a storm. Looking back now, "Wasteland" is one of the few excellent works in contemporary literature.
I love Jia Pingwa's "Shangzhou Trilogy" with a very local atmosphere, and I also love his collection of "Qin Cavity", but I love his bloody "Waste Capital" even more. Beneath the surface of "sex" is the true portrayal of this cruel human world.
In a marital relationship, once one of them gives up the self, there is nothing
We often say that love is giving, not taking. But that's the mindset, not the norm.
We tell ourselves that not asking for anything in return is because we are afraid that what we get is far from what we expect, and that it is better to ask for nothing than to be lost.
Love is never a blind effort, but the warmth of giving to each other. No one is the sun, the light will eventually run out, and at that moment, love will die.
In "Waste Capital", the most sympathetic is none other than Niu Yueqing. She is the wife of the protagonist Zhuang Zhidi, and like all the wives of all duties, she uses all her strength to make a harmonious home.
In the face of Zhuang Zhidi's "sexual impotence", she only complained a little, but did not blame a little. After Zhuang Zhidi cheated on Tang Wan'er, she chose to rest in peace and hope that her husband would restrain her horse from the cliff.
She felt that forbearance and tolerance could be exchanged for sincerity, but she did not know that the moment she gave up herself, she was doomed to nothing.
In a relationship between the sexes, unconditional compromise and giving are difficult to exchange for equal love. It's not love's fault, it's human nature.
What we love is each other's edges and edges. When the other party has smoothed out the edges and corners for us and hidden the sharp edge, we should love each other more, yes, we should love her, her life is all about you!
And the cruel thing is that the ideal is like an egg, and the reality is like a stone. The vileness of human nature is here.
Niu Yueqing lived herself as a Butterfly of Zhuang, but in exchange for a merciless betrayal.
Love is never about living as the other person is, but keeping its own light, your edges and corners are destined to be different, and your sharp edge is the thorn that protects itself.
Adult friendship begins with being used
I often wonder why I was at the same table for only a month at the age of 14 and still maintain a sincere friendship. My colleagues who have been there for three years are strangers.
Later I understood that friendship begins as a teenager, an adult, and there is no friendship anymore.
Zhuang Zhidi in "Wasted Capital" is a great writer in Xijingcheng, radiant, full of doors, and all his friends with heads and faces. After Zhuang Zhidi's reputation was discredited, who really cared about him?
As the saying goes: general horses dead people hang filial piety!, generals die and no one buries them!
Just like a sentence in "Dream of the Red Chamber", Zhen Shiyin explained a sentence in "Good Song": gold is full of boxes, silver is full of boxes, and beggars with open eyes are slandered.
Even if there are three thousand diners, they can't escape the tree falling and scattering. It's true that relationships are wealth, but it's just wealth. It is wealth that will be exhausted the day. It is wealth, it is the external object.
Don't always make a scene for the scattered silver two, accompanied by a smiling face. Cherish true friends, childhood playmates, those who are willing to sit down and talk, rich or poor.
Talk about the evening after school, talk about the girl with long hair and waist, and talk about the youth that has passed away but will always be missed.
Desire is the abyss, and when you gaze at it, it also gazes at you
Schopenhauer said: Life is a lump of desire, when you don't get it, you suffer, when you get it, you are bored, and life is like a pendulum, swaying in pain and boredom.
The "sex" in Jia Pingwo's pen is not a low-level expression method, but a concretization of desire. Just like Emma in "Madame Bovary", she fills the emptiness of her heart by cheating.
To say that desire is an abyss is not how terrible it is, but that there is no end to human desire.
Everyone has a desire to live upwards, and no one can say that such a desire is wrong.
But at this time, what I think of is still Zhen Shi's hidden interpretation of "Good Song": because of the small hat of the yarn, the shackles are locked; yesterday the pity broke the jacket cold, and now the purple python is long: randomly baking your side to sing I appeared, but I think that other places are hometown. It is ridiculous, and in the end it is to make a wedding dress for others.
In my opinion, learning to control desire is far more necessary than trying to chase it. Because controlling desire is the realm, chasing desire is just instinct.
The devil is vicious, and God is speechless
The eight words of a hundred ghosts and a wordless God are the core of the entire "Waste Capital". Jia Pingwo very obviously imitates the writing style of Ming and Qing novels, and at the same time draws on the two classical masterpieces of "Dream of the Red Chamber" and "Jin Ping Mei", and shows the vileness and inability of the characters in front of the reader.
Mencius said that human nature is inherently good. And Xun Zi said that human nature is inherently evil.
Compared to the two, I believe that at the moment of birth, good and evil coexist.
We are naturally compassionate and compassionate, but at the same time selfish and unwilling to share.
Therefore, in "Waste Capital", the author did not deliberately praise a certain virtue, nor did he debase a certain evil, but only showed the darkness in the hearts of sentient beings, which is the main reason why it was banned for 16 years.
Few people think they are bad people, and no one dares to say that they are really good. Man is like this, half angel, half devil.
And "Wasted Capital" tells us that if we indulge the devil in our hearts at will, we will be devoured by the devil.
There is a famous line in the Japanese animated film "Asura": The reason why people are human is because people can suppress the animal nature of the heart, which is the glory of human nature.
Always remember that the right path on earth is vicissitudes.
Works such as "Wasteland" will never inspire generations like "Ordinary World", nor will they become the pearls on the laurels of contemporary literature like "White Deer Plain". It is only the author's state of mind and encounter at the low point of life, but it does not prevent it from becoming an excellent work, because there must always be a knife-like text, confronting the dark side of the times head-on.