The Biography of Hulan River was written in 1942, which was the most difficult stage in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, which made Xiaohong miss her hometown and childhood more, so she wrote this novel with her hometown and childhood life as the background. Unique in artistic form: although writing characters, there is no protagonist; Although it also tells stories, it has no main axis; Although the seven chapters of this book can be independent, they are a whole. This writer created her "memory-style" masterpiece with her skillful memory skills, lyric prose style and light and heavy writing style. Mao Dun once commented on its artistic achievements: "It is a narrative poem, a colorful landscape painting and a string of sad songs."
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This is a remote and lively town. There is a "big mud pit" on the main road of the city. Mules, horses and children are often drowned, but the residents are watching and no one comes out to rectify. Some people said that they would tear down the wall, others said that they would plant trees, but no one said that they would fill it, although it was not difficult to fill the hole.
On the day when the town held a grand ceremony, people danced, sang yangko, put out river lanterns, watched the Wild Prince Opera and watched the temple fair, which was very lively.
My grandfather is almost seventy years old. He is a kind and gentle old man. Only grandpa cares about me the most in my family. Therefore, I never leave him outside the door all day. He often teaches me to read poetry and takes me to play in the back garden. When I can't walk, grandpa hugs me and I walk around. Grandpa took me, accompanied by grandparents and grandchildren, and I was very happy.
We have several neighbors, and a shabby hut in the west is rented to a pig feeder; There is also a grass rent to a flour mill. They often sing while drying powder and live a very happy life. There is also a ramshackle living in the wing; There is also a Hu family driving a cart in the small wing next to the grinding mill. Hu Jia has a little child bride-little reunion's daughter-in-law. She is a 12-year-old girl who is happy all day, but Hu Jia wants to give her a fright and always beats her for no reason. The neighbors also support Hu Jia's behavior and say that she should. Hu Jia fought more and more fiercely, and the time was longer and longer. little reunion's daughter-in-law was tortured and became ill. Khufu's family listened to the dreamer and decided to give little reunion's daughter-in-law a bath with boiling water. When taking a bath, many people came to watch the excitement, only to see that she was scalded by boiling water three times and finally died a few days later.
I have a relative, my second uncle, who is an old bachelor and has a strange temper. His colleagues don't like to talk, but they like to chat with stones, sparrows and yellow dogs. According to my grandfather, two uncles came to my house thirty years ago. Thanks to my uncle's presence during the Russo-Japanese War, I kept my house. He is most afraid of being called "the last one". Whenever I hear someone scold him like this, I will burst into tears.
People call Lamo's neighbor "Mo Guan Feng Wai Zuizi". He can not only pull mill, but also make rice cakes. Once, I went to the mill to buy rice cakes and saw a woman and a child lying on the kang inside. It turns out that Feng's crooked mouth has a family, and that woman is Sister Wang, the eldest girl of Lao Wang's family in the same hospital. But Feng's happy life was envied and hated by his neighbors. Everyone says that Sister Wang is not good, and rumors are endless. Feng's crooked mouth was ridiculed by people. Two or three years later, Sister Wang died of dystocia after giving birth to a second child. Feng's mouth is often filled with tears, but when he saw that his eldest son could pull a donkey to drink water and his younger son would clap his hands and laugh, he stopped despairing. In his son, he saw the hope of life.
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This work is Xiao Hong's masterpiece in his later period. By recalling all kinds of characters and life pictures in his hometown, he expressed the author's denial of the social reality that old China distorted human nature and damaged personality. The feelings of "loneliness and depression" revealed by many researchers' works can actually be understood from this perspective.
Of course, the most important thing is the unique artistic personality of this work. Mao Dun has an overall grasp of this, which is accurate.
"But I think it is better and more meaningful, because it is not exactly like an autobiography. Moreover, we can also say that the point is not that Biography of Hulan River is not like a novel in a strict sense, but that there is something else besides it-something more attractive than the novel: it is a narrative poem, a colorful landscape painting and a string of sad ballads. There is irony and humor. I feel relaxed at first, but my heart will get heavier and heavier as I go down. However, there is still beauty, even if it is a little morbid, it will still dazzle you. " (On Xiao Hong's Biography of Hulan River)