Of course, due to readers' different life experiences, experiences and education levels, different people will have different understandings and feelings after reading the same book.
I don't know which book I read, saying that Hu Lancheng decided to see Zhang Ailing after reading Blockade, so there was their later story.
I read it recently, and the novel mainly talks about a short-lived so-called love that happened on the tram when the Japanese occupation of Shanghai caused the tram to be blocked in the 1940s.
Lv Zongzhen, an accountant, is thirty-five. He has a wife and a daughter at home. He is an English teacher at Wu Cuiyuan University. He is 25 years old and unmarried.
The couple were trapped on the tram because it was blocked. Lv Zongzhen complained to Wu Cuiyuan that his marriage was arranged by his parents, and his wife had a low level of education, so she couldn't understand herself and didn't want to go home after work.
Wu Cuiyuan is a good daughter and a good teacher with a college degree. Her family is more modern, but her parents asked her to find a rich son-in-law to marry.
Two unhappy people in real life talked about love on the tram, looking forward to a bright future, and left their phone numbers.
However, with the end of the blockade, Lv Zongzhen quickly sat back in his position. Just being in love was just a dream. It's all over, and they have returned to the origin of their lives.
Sometimes life is so absurd and dramatic. Coincidentally, I met a specific person at a specific time and told t a something you wouldn't tell others. They like and admire each other and think there will be a bright future.
With the development of things and the passage of time, that particular time and occasion is over, and two people have to be busy with different things, so this short-lived love and romance is over, and everything seems to have never happened.
It was just a short dream, and it was so beautiful.
After waking up, we must face the cruel reality and accept the helplessness that no one can change.
The outcome of the blockade is intriguing and there are many possibilities. Maybe after parting on the tram, Lv Zongzhen will call Wu Cuiyuan, and Cui Yuan's family strongly opposes their relationship, and the final result will come to nothing.
In fact, every relationship is an inner tempering and a growing experience. When the heart is hurt, it will gradually mature and be strong.
After reading this novel, we can understand people's lives at that time:
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At that time, there was a tram in Shanghai, which was probably equivalent to the current bus or subway. The novel is described in detail at the beginning.
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There were dry cleaners in Shanghai at that time. In the novel, a wife reminds her husband to keep smoked fish away from his pants and says that dry cleaning is expensive.
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At that time, there were banks and stock exchanges in Shanghai, and the hero Lv Zongzhen was an accountant of Hua Mao Bank.
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At that time, girls could go to college and learn English in college. After graduating from university, the heroine Wu Cuiyuan worked as an English teaching assistant at her alma mater.
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A medical student drew a picture of the human skeleton on the tram, which was mistaken by other passengers for painting.
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At that time, Shanghainese had already brushed their teeth with toothpaste. There is a passage in the article: he doesn't like this woman around him very much. Her arms are as white as toothpaste. Her whole figure is like toothpaste, with no style.
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At that time, there was milk powder for sale in Shanghai shopping malls, and the advertisement of "Nello Wei milk powder" was posted on the tram.
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At that time, nearsighted people were also equipped with nearsighted glasses. According to the article, nearsighted people take off their glasses in public, just like taking off their clothes in public.
Here are some sentences from my favorite novels to share with you:
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They must fill this terrible gap, otherwise, their brains may be active and thinking is a painful thing.
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The old man rubbed two shiny walnuts in his hand, crunching, and his thoughts were replaced by methodical little moves. He is bald, his skin is red and yellow, his face is wrinkled with oil, and his whole head is like a walnut. His brain is like walnut kernel, sweet and moist, but it doesn't mean much.
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Men who have wives all over the world seem to be in urgent need of sympathy from other women.
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In Zong Zhen's eyes, her face is like a peony flower with a few strokes missing, and three or two short hairs on her forehead are flowers in the wind.
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A man in love always likes to say that a woman in love is unusually quiet, because subconsciously she knows that a man will never love a woman again after he knows her thoroughly.
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What's the use of explaining to him? If a woman has to impress a man with words, she is too poor.
Although the length of Blockade is not long, it is a rare masterpiece in short stories.
Zhang Ailing described the sentient beings under blockade in that special period with delicate line drawing strokes.
Of course, you have to calm down and read quietly like a picture, so as to understand the situation and taste.
After the blockade, the environment in the street: the sound gradually faded, like the rustling in reed pillows heard in my sleep.
A beggar sang silently, and the lyrics seemed funny, but in fact they were sad.
Several passengers in the tram office commented on a colleague they didn't like. In just a few words, the feeling of love is beyond words.
Zhang Ailing's description of every passenger on the tram is quiet. In a few words, the characters will plump up and come out of the novel to meet us, as if they were someone around us.
No wonder, after watching Blockade, Hu Lancheng couldn't hold back his excitement and wanted to visit Zhang Ailing, even personally.
If I were a screenwriter or director, I would consider putting Blockade on the stage or screen.
Because Zhang's description is too detailed and wonderful, short stories are promising.
Due to shallow knowledge, lack of experience and limited understanding ability, the understanding of Zhang Ailing's Blockade is far from enough. I believe that everyone has different opinions when watching it.
Of course, greens and radishes have their own tastes. Some people like Zhang Ailing, while others hate her. A's honey is B's arsenic, so there is no need to ask others to be like yourself. The world is wonderful because it is different.