The Realism of Pop Pop's "The Siege

It has been a long time since I heard of Qian Zhongshu's great name, and when I first read his work Siege, it seems that there is nothing special about it. However, after slowly tasting it, I found that Siege is like a cup of strong bitter tea, with a sweetness after the bitterness, which refreshes my heart and soul and lasts for a long time. So I couldn't help but read it twice more, and found that the more I read it, the more flavorful it was, and I only complained that it was too late for me. In the book, the main character, Zhao Xinzhi, often hangs on the lips of the poem "once the sea is difficult to water, except the witch mountain is not a cloud" for the evaluation of the work itself seems to be not too far off the mark. Reading itself is a very artful thing, gulp can eat, but for the fine chewing slowly, enjoy it will be more flavorful. The book is often read to the rear, and then turned over to look back, there is a kind of sudden realization of the feeling of deep joy of the fast. The ability to let the reader in the reading process naturally into the deep emotional world of the characters, real and not artifice, may be the work itself is the most successful place.

Siege is a work of realism, to be precise. The No. 1 hero, Fang Hongzhan, and the several heroines associated with him are all set in the historical background of the war period, with all kinds of ordinary people struggling to survive in the cracks of social upheaval. The fate of the main characters is helplessly carried forward by the torrent of history, but they are also in the middle of it, paradoxically making all kinds of emotionally difficult decisions. Some people evaluate "The Besieged City" as a modern version of "The History of Confucianism", which is also reasonable from this point of view. The most important feature of realistic literary works is to reject idealism through reality and actuality. Although the plot can be appropriately fictionalized through literary techniques, the content itself should be close to the real life portrayal in the context of the times. The closer and more real, the easier it is for the reader to read with the illusion of thinking, and with the protagonist emotionally **** Ming.

The protagonist, Fang Hongjian, is a real loser deliberately molded by author Qian Zhongshu. He was originally full of beautiful fantasies about his future life, and idealism and romanticism were perfectly interpreted in him. But soon he realized that the reality is like a solid city wall, making him constantly bumping into the wall and being frustrated. He saw the chicken hair of life, full of hope was collided with the scattered. As the saying goes, the more hope, the more disappointment. Life had also given him a brief glimmer of light, but these lights of hope were all destroyed in the strong conflict between subjective ideals and objective reality. Idealism is not Fang Hong渐's fault, but can not face up to reality, can not live with the life of the metaphysical **** will only let him touch the skin. Fang Hongjian saw his "wind and rain flowers scattered" after the downfall, but he did not "sit and watch the flowers in front of the garden" courage. Fang Hongzhan's failure and despair is not entirely his own, seemingly accidental, but actually inevitable. This is a great irony of the historical environment and a normal result of the transformation of the old and new family cultures. It is in the course of the novel's plot evolution that the author has been carefully laying the groundwork and skillfully setting up the situation, so that Fang Hongzhi has walked into the depths of the walled city and cannot extricate himself.

Fong's five love histories are very skillfully designed and arranged, and are often told in a way that makes the author want to go in first and go out first. The first is Zhou Shuying, Fang and Zhou have no feelings, have not even met, their union is only a product of the traditional feudal arranged marriage. Their union was only a product of traditional feudal marriages. Parents' orders and matchmakers' words had to be obeyed. But the novel skillfully arranges for the untimely death of Ms. Zhou, which naturally frees Fang. Thanks to the Zhou family's financial support, Fang is instead blessed by the misfortune, and the padding leads to the experience of studying abroad. In the second paragraph, Ms. Bao toys with Fang's feelings on the cruise ship back to China, and Fang, who was in the throes of love at the time, felt fooled for the first time in his life. Luckily, the young man does not know the taste of sadness, and a small scar is quickly smoothed over by the appearance of the third heroine, Su Wendan. Su WenDan begins to pursue Fang, who is momentarily confused and at a loss for words. It is at this point that the fourth heroine, Tang Xiaofu, makes her unannounced appearance. Tang's appearance begins to rattle Fang's heartstrings, and Fang's deep-seated idealism begins to unleash. After deep thinking, he doesn't want to deceive himself and give up his true feelings for Tang Xiaofu. His belief in love keeps him on the path of obsession. But fate plays a joke on him once again, as Sue pierces Fang's hypocritical skin in front of Tang Xiaofu. After making a fool of himself in front of his lover, the love triangle between Fang Hongjian and Su Wenlian and Tang Xiaofu officially ends. Door cover the falling flowers, the people to say goodbye, the moon and autumn frost wine wake up. Fang Hongzhan this time hurt quite y, and began to have doubts about love. He begins to choose to escape, but fate continues to play tricks on him. The plot development of the novel and the ghost of God let him meet Sun Roujia, and soon he and Sun combined. Everything seems to have been happy and successful, and there is no more suspense. However, fate has its twists and turns, and the clash of personalities between Fang and Sun continues to challenge their apparent happiness. While Fang still clings to his idealism, Sun Zoujia is a realist woman who is soft on the outside and tough on the inside. The conflict of interests of the extended family tears away the veil of harmony of the small family, and the marriage starts to fall into difficulties gradually. Each side wants the other to change and refuses to compromise. In the end, the marriage becomes the tomb of love. Fang Hongzhan despaired, he found that love is over, the lighthouse of love once appeared one by one, but one by one disillusioned. Life is like a play, as if God intends to play tricks on him, but he is weak and powerless to control the ark of his own destiny.

Toward the end of the novel, when Fang Hongjian shut himself up in his room and looked at the dim streetlights through the curtains alone, perhaps he thought of the flowers that used to be around him? Su Wen dan, Tang Xiaofu, or Sun Roujia? Was he wrong in his choices? Fang didn't know, he wanted to find the answer, but he might never find it. He was just trying hard to rush into the city to take a look, but now he no longer has the courage to leave the city ......

The author finally left the thinking to the readers, perhaps he also does not know how to complete the redemption of Fang Hongguan, perhaps this is the author's brilliant place. Fang Hongzhan's body is concentrated in that big time under the helplessness of the little people, the heart of the pride but in front of the walls of reality bumped into the blood, full of love but thrown in the wilderness of no one***ming. Who will pay for Fang's failure? And where will Fang go in the end? The realism of The Wall comes through in the end, making for an evocative, compulsive read.

The work itself brings us more philosophical thinking about life. How to deal with the contradiction between ideal and reality is the eternal theme that we need to face on the road of life, even if it is detached from the novel itself, it still has a strong sense of realism in today's society. Many of us remember one of the author's classic quotes in the book - "Marriage is a walled city, people outside the city want to get in, people in the city want to get out". Yes, marriage is a walled city, work is a walled city, where in life is there no walled city? When we dream of poetry and faraway places, at the same time, we need to face the reality of the bone, the life of the meticulous. The road of life is a variety of contradictory body paved, choices everywhere, and disappointment is often the norm in life. Perhaps lower your mind, frank tolerance, courage and strength, learn to harmonize with a variety of bad **** is the supreme philosophical realm of life.