What are the references to bitterness in Zhang Wei's Ancient Ship?

In the form of family novels, The Ancient Boat portrays the contradictions and entanglements of the three families of Sui, Zhao and Zhao through many characters, and reproduces the social development history of China from land reform, Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution to reform and opening up, as well as the pain of the nation when it faces the change. In stormy days, the sufferings of body, mind and humanity have become the core of people's memory. Balzac said that "novels are regarded as the secret history of a nation", and The Ancient Ship opened a secret corner of history with realism, reappearing a kind of truth, which can be called an excellent work describing the profound spiritual history of the Chinese nation.

First, the suffering of the image group

In "Ancient Ship", Zhang Wei carefully created and deliberately expressed his image, forming a star-like image group. Unearthed ancient ships, rotating old mills, ancient city walls, dry rivers, newly discovered underground rivers, old red horses full of blood, lost lead barrels, mysterious "Sea Needle Sutra", hopeful "* * * * Declaration", lame flutes, malnutrition and the dumping of fan factories ... These images are independent of each other. "The novel takes the' ancient ship' as the central image and Tian Wen, Zhen Jing Island, rivers and underground rivers as the secondary images, thus forming a flourishing image group in the novel. These image group, on the one hand, bear the role of the whole novel structure, on the other hand, bear the important narrative purpose. Zhang Wei tried to make the novel enter a deep state with the help of vague images and promote the ideographic process of the story.

"Ship" is an ancient image, bearing the feeling of wandering, the feeling of being born and the meaning of extradition. Zhang Wei inherited its profound cultural connotation and added his own unique views. The novel "Ancient Ship Unearthed" is a broken wooden boat ... This smell makes people feel dry and want to vomit ... On the wood, all the holes are dripping together, first white water, then red water. Later, everyone smelled blood and wanted to return a little. "If history goes back a little, it will go back to the terrible turbulent era in Wali Town. Natural and man-made disasters go hand in hand, and Wali Town has experienced many hardships. Huge thunder destroyed and burned the ancient temples, the Luqing River became shallow and narrow, the ships ran aground, the prosperity of the town disappeared, and people were dying in famine. Hatred, killing and war were brutally staged. In the white-hot revolutionary environment, the weakness and malice of human nature are exposed, human dignity is trampled mercilessly, life is like an ant, the living are wronged and the dead are unwilling. The bloody smell of ancient ships is the blood evidence of history. In this way, the author thinks that "ancient ship" contains the following meanings: 1, "ancient ship" is a symbol of the Chinese nation, and its "antiquity" lies in the heavy culture and chronic diseases existing in the traditional culture of the Chinese nation; 2. "Ancient ship" is a symbol of suffering. Zhang Wei expressed her profound reflection on history with an "ancient ship". The excavation of ancient ships is a history that has surfaced and been covered up; The "ancient ship" is the witness of people's suffering history. The root of the pain lies in the selfish killing between people for the benefit. Zhang Wei thinks about the salvation of national suffering with his humanitarian feelings.

Second, the physical embarrassment of suffering women struggling in the revolution.

The ancient ship takes the family as the main line. While inheriting the critical consciousness and enlightenment tradition of modern family novels, it turned from the narrative of the daily life of aristocratic families to the concern of revolutionary families. Revolution is a core word in the 20th century, which has influenced China's social changes, historical trends and people's mentality. "The embarrassment of women in the revolution makes women's bodies become the battlefield and motive force of the revolution." "In our literature, there are often scenes worth thinking about-scenes of revolution or scenes of * * * * allocating women, which show the success or failure of the revolution." [3] In the novel, many women are struggling in the revolutionary environment, physically weak and physically and mentally devastated. Tracing back to the source, it is the external political factors of the times, not their personality factors, which have caused their unstoppable suffering and tragic fate. In the revolution, "the peasant class not only demands to be the masters of the country politically and economically, but also pursues the turning over of the body and the satisfaction of desire". [4] Just like Ah Q written by Lu Xun, he doesn't understand the essence of revolution, but he has his own "revolutionary ideal"-he has whatever he wants, * * * * *, foreign money, foreign gauze shirts and so on. Women are the distribution and trophy of "revolution" in Ah Q's mind, from Zhao's sister and Zou Qisao's daughter to fake foreign devils, scholar's wife, and Oh Mom, Ah Q has thought about it secretly.

The revolutionary peasant class on the ancient ship has similar revolutionary ideals and narrow ignorance of the small-scale peasant economy in China. Zhao Bing and Zhao Duoduo are typical figures. Zhao was drooling over the beautiful Zhang Han, waiting for an opportunity to occupy Zhang Han for eighteen years in the revolution. He confessed that he was a "poor man in Dolltown" and occupied a self-sufficient beauty who died without regret. Zhao Duoduo is a rogue in the revolution. After he turned over, he violated the Party's policy, harassed and threatened the enlightened old Sui family who donated their own property, and openly flirted with Fenzi, the wife of Sui Yingzhi, with ulterior motives. He thought it was "a matter of time. What's left?" Zhang Han and Fennel struggled in their sufferings, failed to save themselves, and finally fell into the swamp of the times.

Zhang Han was rescued from the clutches of Zhao Duoduo, but fatally fell into the lust of Zhao Bing.