The second is the level of cultural criticism. This is mainly achieved through the description of the "new Confucian forest" and the shaping of the image of a group of overseas students or senior intellectuals.
The novel also points out the meaning of "besieged city" many times. It tells people that life is a ubiquitous "besieged city", leaving and leaving, leaving and ending, without games, there will be eternal confusion and dilemma. The problems raised by the writer in Fortress Besieged involve the crisis of modern civilization and the predicament of modern life, which is of universal significance.
Expand the material "Fortress Besieged" to depict realistic typical characters and vivid psychological description, so that readers can have telepathy; The criticism of human nature and culture is humorous and profound in spirit. These are mostly due to clever metaphors. For example, in the paragraph where the car lights are lit with matches, "If you draw a few matches, the fire in your heart will be straight" (according to memory, there may be some typos that are inconsistent with the original text, the same below); Another example is the door behind the grave, "the entrance that can't get in, the place that can't go" and so on.
And so on, witticism, in-depth mind, not only remember these beautiful sentences, but also remember the people and things described in these beautiful sentences, as well as the profound and vast metaphors behind these people and things.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-besieged city